SRU/SRW

Ex Libris Developer Network Rosetta Documentation Extending Rosetta Standards SRU/SRW

General Purpose

Search for SIPs or IEs based on the SRU protocol. Returns matching SIP IE or File metadata via SRU protocol as one or more Dublin Core records, enriched with a SIP ID, an IE PID, or a FL PID as a dc:identifier. IEs and FLs are also enriched with delivery deep links.

Note: SIP-level search is supported as of Rosetta v5.3. File-level search is supported as of Rosetta v6.0.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Description	Value
server name	The server name or the IP address	string
port number	The port number that the server is listening on	number
version	The SRU version – Should be ‘1.2’	string
operation	The specific SRU operation – Should be ‘searchRetrieve’	string
query	The IE field that the search is based on (see examples below) Note: Suppressed records are excluded from the results.	string
maximumRecords	The maximum number of records returned per response (optional) Note: Number of results will not exceed 10,000	number
recordSchema	The requested metadata format (optional, currently dc only)	string
startRecord	The start of the range of the result set records (optional, default=1)	number
sortBy	Sort results by an IE indexed field + sort.descending /sort.ascending (optional)	string

Input URL Syntax

SRU request based on an indexed field:

https:// <Rosetta delivery load balancer host>:<Rosetta delivery load balancer port>/search/operational/sru?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=<index>=<value>&maximumRecords=5&recordSchema=dc

https:// <Rosetta delivery load balancer host>:<Rosetta delivery load balancer port>/search/permanent/[ie|file]/sru?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=<index>=<value>&maximumRecords=5&recordSchema=dc

To retrieve a list of searchable indexes, refer to the relevant explain document:

SIPs: https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/operational/sru?service=explain
IEs: https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/permanent/ie/sru?service=explain
Files: https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/permanent/file/sru?service=explain

Note: For purposes of backward compatibility, base URLs https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/delivery/sru and https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/permanent/sru are also supported for IE search. Users running v6.0+ should prefer the URLs above.

Limitations

Operator between search fields must by ‘and’ (not ‘or’ etc.).
Operator within a search field must be = for matching by keyword, or == for matching a phrase (==”” for ‘is empty’). Other operators (!=, <, etc.) are not supported.
Date format in date fields must be YYYY-MM-DD.

Input Example

IE Delivery via SRU based on File Extension sorted, maximum records:

https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/permanent/sru?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=FILE.generalFileCharacteristics.fileExtension=jpg%20sortBy%20IE.dc.title/sort.descending&maximumRecords=5

IE Delivery via SRU based on Access Rights Policy and dc:creator:

https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/permanent/sru?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=IE.accessRightsPolicy.policyId=AR_EVERYONE+IE.dc.creator=%22van%20gogh%22

SIP Delivery via SRU based on SIP ID

https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/operational/sru?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=SIP.pid=2

IE Delivery via SRU based on date (dcterms:created):

https://rosetta.exlibrisgroup.com/search/permanent/sru?version=1.2&operation=searchRetrieve&query=IE.dcterms.created=2010-10-05

Output Example

Multiple IEs

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><searchRetrieveResponse xmlns=">
  <version>1.2</version>
  <numberOfRecords>15</numberOfRecords>
  <records>
    <record>
      <recordSchema>info:srw/schema/1/dc-v1.1</recordSchema>
      <recordPacking>xml</recordPacking>
      <recordData>
        <dc:record xmlns:dc=" xmlns:xsi=" xmlns:mets=" xmlns:dv=" xmlns:xlin=" xmlns:mix=" xmlns:mods=" xmlns:dcterms=">
          <dc:title>Jubel-Kalender zur Erinnerung an die Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig vom 16. - 19. October A. D. 1813</dc:title>
          <dc:type>text</dc:type>
          <dc:publisher>Weber</dc:publisher>
          <dc:date>1863</dc:date>
          <dc:publisher>universitäts- und Landesbibliothek</dc:publisher>
          <dc:rights>AR_EVERYONE</dc:rights>
          <dc:identifier xsi:type="PID">IE21737</dc:identifier>
          <dc:identifier xsi:type="stream"></dc:identifier>
          <dc:identifier xsi:type="thumbnail"></dc:identifier>
        </dc:record>
      </recordData>
      <recordPosition>1</recordPosition>
    </record>
    <record>
      <recordSchema>info:srw/schema/1/dc-v1.1</recordSchema>
      <recordPacking>xml</recordPacking>
      <recordData>
        <dc:record xmlns:dc=" xmlns:xsi=" xmlns:mets=" xmlns:dv=" xmlns:xlin=" xmlns:mix=" xmlns:mods=" xmlns:dcterms=">
          <dc:title>Katechismus für den teutschen Kriegs- und Wehrmann, worin gelehret wird, wie ein christlicher Wehrmann seyn und mit Gott in den Streit gehen soll</dc:title>
          <dc:type>text</dc:type>
          <dc:date>1813</dc:date>
          <dc:publisher>universitäts- und Landesbibliothek</dc:publisher>
          <dc:rights>AR_EVERYONE</dc:rights>
          <dc:identifier xsi:type="PID">IE22978</dc:identifier>
          <dc:identifier xsi:type="stream"></dc:identifier>
          <dc:identifier xsi:type="thumbnail"></dc:identifier>
        </dc:record>
      </recordData>
      <recordPosition>2</recordPosition>
    </record>
  </records>
</searchRetrieveResponse>

Single IE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<searchRetrieveResponse xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/">
<version>1.2</version>
<numberOfRecords>1</numberOfRecords>
<records>
<record>
<recordSchema>info:srw/schema/1/dc-v1.1</recordSchema>
<recordPacking>xml</recordPacking>
<recordData>
<dc:record xmlns:dc=" xmlns:xsi=" xmlns:mets=" xmlns:xlin=" xmlns:mods=" xmlns:dcterms=">
<dc:title>cell line "M1", combination of antibody stainings no 2</dc:title>
<dc:identifier>M1_Kombi2</dc:identifier>
<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
<dc:format>Olympus Image Format</dc:format>
<dcterms:created>2012-10-29</dcterms:created>
<dcterms:isPartOf>CAi Collections/Wintersemester 2012/IIF/Gruppe 1</dcterms:isPartOf>
<dc:rights>AR_EVERYONE</dc:rights>
<dc:identifier xsi:type="PID">IE23618</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier xsi:type="stream"/>
<dc:identifier xsi:type="thumbnail"/>
</dc:record>
</recordData>
<recordPosition>1</recordPosition>
</record>
</records>
</searchRetrieveResponse>

Authentication

(v5.4 and higher)

Access to the SRU server may be restricted by setting the sru_authentication general parameter to ‘true’. When set to true, SRU requests must include Basic Authentication as an Authorization HTTP header. See here for the expected syntax. Authentication errors will return an info:srw/diagnostic/1/3 diagnostic.

Suppressed IEs

(v6.2 and higher)

Authenticated users of role Editor-typical and Editor-full will see suppressed IEs in the SRU/W response. Authenticated users of role Editor-view will see suppressed IEs in the response only if the user has the “Show Suppressed IEs” parameter set to true.

Unauthenticated users (if the sru_authentication general parameter is set to ‘true’) will not see suppressed IEs in the response.

Error Handling

Rosetta’s SRU server supports the following diagnostics:

3 – Authentication error.

10 – Query syntax error.

52 – Result set temporarily unavailable. Returned when all Rosetta index servers are unresponsive (v6.0+).

59 – Result set created with valid partial results available. Returned when one or more (but not all) of Rosetta index servers are unresponsive (v6.0+).