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mehmetc / jQuery.PRIMO

A client side convenience library for PRIMO.
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How to retrieve the MARC of a record #13

Closed jhercher closed 7 years ago

jhercher commented 7 years ago

Hi,

is there a way to get the original MARC of a record? I see you suggest to uncomment:


        <mapping resource="com/exlibris/primo/domain/entities/OriginalSourceRecord.hbm.xml"/>

to the hibernate mapping file /exlibris/primo/p4_1/ng/primo/home/system/search/conf/hibernate.cfg.xml (I'll definitely need to ask the support for this)

How do I get the MARC then? Is it even possible to do it like this?

    jQuery.PRIMO.records[5].getMARC('xml');

Thanks

mehmetc commented 7 years ago

Hi Johannes,

I must say that I never had a real need to do anything with the original record in the UI. What are you going to use it for? Look at the librians Workbench example it contains code on how to do it.

You need to call the API directly like:

/primo_library/libweb/jqp/record/{{ recordId }}.xml

If the hibernate mapping is enabled you will get the original xml file else it will return the pnx record.

Hope this answers your question.

Mehmet

jhercher commented 7 years ago

Hi Mehmet, thanks for your quick response. I found a way without touching hibernate.cfg.xml by using the ALMA API: 

    https://api-eu.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/almaws/v1/bibs/{{mmsId}}?apiKey=xxxx

Having a quick look into the published MARC is often useful to debug normalization rules in Primo. Using the API call above you won't need to login to ALMA, i.e. you save a bunch of clicks and copy'n paste ;)

Cheers, Johannes