Recall Per Item

Ex Libris Developer Network Voyager Documentation Voyager APIs RESTful Web Services Recall Per Item

General Purpose

The resource may be accessed with a GET method to retrieve a specific patron’s recall request information for a specific item.

The resource may be accessed with a PUT method to create a recall request for a specific patron and on a specific item.

Product Version Compatibility

Voyager 7.2.0 and later.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Value	Default	Required
record ID	path parameter	The Voyager bibliographic record ID	string	None	Yes
item ID	path parameter	The Voyager item record identifier.	string	None	Yes
patron	query parameter	The Voyager patron system ID. The system ID can be retrieved from the Voyager circulation staff client interface or returned from the AuthenticatePatronService Web service with patron barcode and last name. The purpose of this parameter is to retrieve additional information regarding whether this patron can request the specific record.	string	None	Yes
patron_homedb	query parameter	The Voyager patron home DB key.	string	None	Yes
patron_group	query parameter	This indicates the Voyager patron group ID. If this parameter is not specified, the server uses its best-guess patron group ID.	string	None	No

Input XML Elements

Parameter	Description	Value	Default	Required
<comment>	Comment from the patron regarding this request – maximum 100 chars	string	None	No
<dbkey>	Database Key of the requested item	string	None	Yes
<last-interest-date>	The latest date in which the item must be supplied in yyyymmdd format	string	None	Yes
<pickup-location>	The code of the requested pickup location, for example 12	string	None	Yes

Input URL Syntax

<Base URL>:/record/<record ID>/items/<item ID>/recall?patron=patId&patron_homedb=homedb&patron_group=NN

Example

The following is a URL to access a patron’s recall request information for a specific item:

http://10.100.2.37:30114/vxws/record/155/items/303/recall?patron=185&patron_homedb=1@QA20012DB20020613131313&patron_group=1

To create a new item-level recall request, use the same URL with a PUT method. The PUT XML must have the following structure:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<recall-parameters>
<pickup-location>1</pickup-location>
<last-interest-date>20091006</last-interest-date>
<comment>testing recall request</comment>
<dbkey>1@QA20012DB20020613131313</dbkey>
</recall-parameters>

Output XML Format

The following is an output of a patron’s recall request information for a specific item:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 <response>
  <reply-text>ok</reply-text>
  <reply-code>0</reply-code>
 <recall allowed="Y">
 <pickup-locations usage="Mandatory">
  <pickup-location code="13" default="N">Acquisitions</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="28" default="N">Branch General</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="11" default="N">Cataloging Desk</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="12" default="Y">Circulation Desk</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="45" default="N">DLC Test</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="8" default="N">Main Stacks</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="4" default="N">Media Department</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="17" default="N">Media Stacks</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="16" default="N">Offsite</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="31" default="N">Other Branch Circ. Desk</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="49" default="N">QA ILL Test</pickup-location>
  <pickup-location code="14" default="N">Reserve Desk</pickup-location>
  </pickup-locations>
  <dbkey code="1@QA20012DB20020613131313" usage="Mandatory">University Library</dbkey>
  <instructions usage="read-only">Please select an item.</instructions>
  <last-interest-date usage="Mandatory">2010-01-07</last-interest-date>
  <comment max_len="100" usage="Optional" />
  </recall>
  </response>

The following is an output of patron’s recall request for a specific item using the PUT method.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
  <reply-text>ok</reply-text>
  <reply-code>0</reply-code>
  <create-recall>
    <note type="">Your request was successful.</note>
  </create-recall>
</response>

Possible Error Codes

27: Item does not exist