Add notes for 2020-10-08

content/posts/2020-10.md

@@ -198,4 +198,21 @@ $ http POST https://dspacetest.cgiar.org/rest/collections/f10ad667-2746-4705-8b1
   - Does *not* post straight to archive, goes to workflow
 - Note that community administrators have no role in item submission other than being able to create/manage collection groups
 
+## 2020-10-08
+
+- I did some testing of the DSpace 5 REST API because Salem and I were curious
+  - The authentication is a little different (uses a serialized JSON object instead of a form and the token is an HTTP header instead of a cookie):
+
+```
+$ http POST http://localhost:8080/rest/login email=aorth@fuuu.com 'password=ddddd'
+$ http http://localhost:8080/rest/status rest-dspace-token:d846f138-75d3-47ba-9180-b88789a28099
+$ http POST http://localhost:8080/rest/collections/1549/items rest-dspace-token:d846f138-75d3-47ba-9180-b88789a28099 < item-object.json
+```
+
+- The item submission works exactly the same as in DSpace 6:
+
+1. The submitting user must be a collection admin
+2. If the collection has a workflow the item will enter it and the API returns an item ID
+3. If the collection does not have a workflow then the item is committed to the archive and you get a Handle
+
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