Title: Nikita version 0.4 released - free software archive API server
Tags: english, standard, nuug, offentlig innsyn, noark5
Date: 2019-05-22 11:30

<p>This morning,  a new release of 
<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
Noark 5 core project</a> was
<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2019-May/000468.html">announced
on the project mailing list</a>.  The Nikita free software solution is
an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.4
since version 0.3, see the email link above for links to a demo site:</p>

<ul>

  <li>Roll out OData handling to all endpoints where applicable</li>
  <li>Changed the relation key for "ny-journalpost" to the official one.</li>
  <li>Better link generation on outgoing links.</li>
  <li>Tidy up code and make code and approaches more consistent throughout
   the codebase</li>
  <li>Update rels to be in compliance with updated version in the
   interface standard</li>
  <li>Avoid printing links on empty objects as they can't have links</li>
  <li>Small bug fixes and improvements</li>
  <li>Start moving generation of outgoing links to @Service layer so access
   control can be used when generating links</li>
  <li>Log exception that was being swallowed so it's traceable</li>
  <li>Fix name mapping problem</li>
  <li>Update templated printing so templated should only be printed if it
   is set true. Requires more work to roll out across entire
   application.</li>
  <li>Remove Record->DocumentObject as per domain model of n5v4</li>
  <li>Add ability to delete lists filtered with OData</li>
  <li>Return NO_CONTENT (204) on delete as per interface standard</li>
  <li>Introduce support for ConstraintViolationException exception</li>
  <li>Make Service classes extend NoarkService</li>
  <li>Make code base respect X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto and
   X-Forwarded-Port</li>
  <li>Update CorrespondencePart* code to be more in line with Single
   Responsibility Principle</li>
  <li>Make package name follow directory structure</li>
  <li>Make sure Document number starts at 1, not 0</li>
  <li>Fix isues discovered by FindBugs</li>
  <li>Update from Date to ZonedDateTime</li>
  <li>Fix wrong tablename</li>
  <li>Introduce Service layer tests</li>
  <li>Improvements to CorrespondencePart</li>
  <li>Continued work on Class / Classificationsystem</li>
  <li>Fix feature where authors were stored as storageLocations</li>
  <li>Update HQL builder for OData</li>
  <li>Update OData search capability from webpage</li>
  
</ul>

<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
you, please contact us on IRC
(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
mailing list</a>).</p>

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