Policy API

Contains the PASS policy service, which provides an HTTP API for determining the policies applicable to a given Submission, as well as the repositories that must be deposited into in order to comply with the applicable policies.

Configuration

Configuration is achieved via the following environment variables:

• PASS_POLICY_INSTITUTION: This is the institution as it appears on User.affiliations for every user in the institution: e.g. "johnshopkins.edu"

• PASS_POLICY_INSTITUTIONAL_POLICY_TITLE: The value of Policy.title on the institution's Policy object

• PASS_POLICY_INSTITUTIONAL_REPOSITORY_NAME: The value of Repository.name on the intstitution's IR Repository object

Policy Service

The /policy/policies endpoint determines the set of policies that are applicable to a given submission. Note: The results may be dependent on who submits the request. For example, if someone from JHU invokes the policies endpoint, a general "policy for JHU employees" may be included in the results.

Policies Request

GET /policy/policies?submission=${SUBMISSION_ID}

Policies Response

The response is a list of IDs to Policy resources, decorated with a type property. A type of institution indicates that this is a institutional policy, a type of funder indicates that the policy is describes the requirements of a funder.

[
 {
   "id": "3",
   "type": "funder"
 },
 {
   "id": "22",
   "type": "institution"
 }
]

Repositories Service

The /policy/repositories endpoint, for a given submission, calculates the repositories that may be deposited into in order to satisfy any applicable policies for that submission.

Repositories Request

GET /policy-service/repositories?submission=${SUBMISSION_ID} or, with urlencoded (with encoded submission=${SUBMISSION_ID}) as the body:

Repositories Response

The response is an application/json document that lists repositories sorted into required and optional buckets. Required repositories must be deposited to while optional repositories may be deposited to.

{
  "required": [
    {
      "url": "1",
      "selected": false
    },
    {
      "url": "2",
      "selected": false
    },
    {
      "url": "3",
      "selected": false
    },
    {
      "url": "4",
      "selected": false
    },
    {
      "url": "5",
      "selected": false
    }
  ],
  "optional": [
    {
      "url": "6",
      "selected": true
    }
  ]
}

Repositories contained in the above list are JSON objects containing the following fields:

• url: the URL to the repository resource in Fedora

• selected: optional field. Specifies if the repository should be selected by default in the UI or not.