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Create user loan

This Web service loans an item to a user. The loan will be created according to the library's policy.

POST /almaws/v1/users/{user_id}/loans

Parameter	Type	Description
`user_id`	xs:string	A unique identifier for the user

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`item_pid`	xs:string	Optional.	The Item ID. This parameter or the item_barcode parameter must be supplied.
`user_id_type`	xs:string	Optional. Default: all_unique	The type of identifier that is being searched. Optional. If this is not provided, all unique identifier types are used. The values that can be used are any of the values in the User Identifier Type code table.
`item_barcode`	xs:string	Optional.	The Item barcode. This parameter or the item_pid parameter must be supplied.
`generate_linked_user`	xs:string	Optional. Default: false	Boolean flag to indicate whether to search the user in the network and create a linked user. This is only supported for networks that have fully unique patron identifiers. To enable this parameter, please contact Ex Libris customer support.

This method takes a Loan object. See doc

This method returns a Item Loan object. See doc

Code	Message
401890	User with identifier X of type Y was not found.
401153	Item cannot be loaned from this circulation desk.
401651	Item is not loanable.
401672	PID field is empty.
401652	General Error: An error has occurred while processing the request.
60340	The loan is API Restricted by library.
60258	The API Restricted profile is not valid.