Things to do in Stage 3

Not including documentation work.

Level 1 - AMF generation

AMF-perl:

• fix XML escaping in AMF generation, File: lib/AMF/Noun.pm

  • subroutine stringify(): Add XML escaping of text data; Follow XML Spec, section 2.4 Character Data and Markup.

  • subroutine stringify_attributes(): add XML escaping to attribute values (similar to above, but adds quotation marks escaping)

EPrints:

• Find out why EPrints::EPrint::commit() function (method) is called twice for each eprint commited. Find a fix or a work-around.

  • use logging — the commented logit() function of the ACIS::EPrints::MetadataExport::AMF module for control and checking the call-stack

Level 3 - Author/person identification aid

General, ACIS::PIDAID:

• find_by_name():

  • change SQL query in it to a fitting JOIN-query, that would search acis.names table and get record data from acis.records

    • note: duplicate records shall be excluded

• make find_by_email()

  • calculate MD5 checksum from the EMAIL parameter given:

        require Digest::MD5;
        my $emailmd5 = Digest::MD5::md5( lc $email );
    

  • search acis.records table by the MD5 checksum; as in find_by_name()

• make find_by_shortid()

EPrints:

• install EPrints on nebka

• install ACIS’ extensions to EPrints

• cgi/pidaid

  • create ACIS::PIDAID object just once and save it a global variable — take advantage of mod_perl environment

  • implement search by shortid and search by email (use search by name as example)

• pidaid.js:

  • fix page jumping when user selects a menu item — give focus to an input box before hiding the menu?

    • or hide the menu gradually?

  • put all text messages like “Is it someone we know?” into global variables somewhere at the file start. It shall be easy to change for anyone.

  • id input field:

    • add functions to set id field status: null / valid / invalid; set class and title attributes of the id input element respectively

    • reset id status to valid when user chooses an item from a menu

    • clear the status when user is editing id field

    • set the status when search results arrive

  • make search results processing function process_search_results() aware of what search it was running for (by name, by email or by short-id)

  • add checking to the id field

    • use regular expressions to see if the value looks like an id or an email

    • search accordingly

  • make table presentation of records menu as shown in illustrations of eprints.html and in prototype ACIS-distribution/EPrints/prototype-menutable.html

  • test and find a fix for Unicode issue in names in search results (find “XXX UNICODE” mark in source)

    • test in different browsers

  • initial handlers installation optimization:

    • check that there are any personal name input controls on the page before doing anything else.

    • check XMLHttpRequest presence before assigning event handlers.

  • check, fix and clear all XXX marks in pidaid.js

Level 4:

ACIS:

• server part

  • add configuration parameters to the ACIS::Web::Config module:

    • meta-update-clients

    • meta-update-object-fetch-func

  • define screen in the home/screens.xml file

  • write screen processors in ACIS::Web::MetaUpdate

• client part: update request module ACIS::MetaUpdate::Request

EPrints:

• add the ACIS::MetaUpdate::Request module to EPrints, tie it to appropriate hooks in MetadataExport::AMF

RAS:

• write mirroring function for RePEc?

  • build a map: archive id -> accesspoint URL

  • configuration: path to local RePEc/remo dir