README.md

ACCESS CONECT Information Sharing Platform

Drupal Feed of ACCESS Integrated Resources

Summary

Mirrors Basic Information about ACCESS Active RP Resources into a Drupal content type.

Includes a URL for retrieving all available CiDeR information in JSON format.

Information comes from an Information Sharing Platform API with built-in filters defining ACCESS Active.

Basic Information

Basic information includes:

• Resource Descriptive Name (Title)
• Detail View URL - link to a public CiDeR page of the resource
• Raw Data URL - link to a public API returning all availailble resource information in JSON
• Resource type
• Latest resource status, begin and end dates
• Organization name, URL, and logo URL
• Affiliation, XSEDE for now, eventually ACCESS
• CiDeR Resource ID
• Global Information Sharing Platform Resource ID

Implementation Details

Creates these Drupal elements:

• Content Type: ACCESS Active Resources from CiDeR Machine name: access_active_resources_from_cid

• Feed Type: ACCESS Active Resources from CiDeR Feed Machine name: cider_active_resources_feed

• Feed: Retrieve CiDeR from Operations API

Developed and tested using:

• Drupal 9.4.8

• Feeds 8.x-3.0-beta2 https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds

• Feeds Extensible Parsers 8.x-1.0-beta1 https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds_ex

Installation

Add repository to composer.json:

"repositories": {
    ...
    "operations_cider": {
       "type": "vcs",
       "url": "https://github.com/access-ci-org/Operations_Drupal_Feed_Cider.git"
    }
},

Install the module:

composer require access/operations_cider

Add a new Feed at /feed/add/cider_active_resources_feed

The feed source is https://operations-api.access-ci.org/wh2/cider/v1/access-active/?format=json

Developer Notes

1. Full Drupal export before implementation
2. Define Content Tyupe, Feed Type, Feed
3. Full Drupal export after implementation
4. tar -C export_after -czvf new_files.tgz diff -n export_before export_after|awk '{print $4}'
5. extract new_files.tgz into the export/ directory