This repository contains the source code for the Room Reservation system which will be in use at the Oregon State University Libraries & Press' Valley Library.
This application is in active development and not ready for use in production.
Currently this system relies upon a variety of systems only in use at OSU's Valley Library. The assumptions made are as follows:
- There is an external database containing information regarding when the library is open.
- Logins are managed via a CAS (Central Authentication Service.)
- There is extra information regarding users stored in an external database, which can be accessed via their username.
- This database stores encrypted student ID numbers.
Work towards generalizing these assumptions may be done at a later date. Pull requests accepted.
This application makes heavy use of caching via memcached for available times. However, it should be fast enough without the caching for general use. Implementing caching requires the following:
- Memcached running locally
- A database server which supports sub-second timestamps.
- Required to avoid race conditions in which two records are updated at the same time.
- Currently we use MariaDB 5.5 for this. Postgresql should also work.