CHANGELOG.md: Add changes for v0.6.1

I had imagined plugging in an interactive Swagger or OpenAPI instance
here, but that's actually much more involved in Falcon than I want to
deal with right now.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+### [0.6.1] - 2018-10-31
+## Added
+- API documentation at root path (/)
+
 ### [0.6.0] - 2018-10-31
 ## Changed
 - Refactor project structure (note breaking changes to API and indexing invocation, see contrib and README.md)

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-# DSpace Statistics API [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/alanorth/dspace-statistics-api.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/alanorth/dspace-statistics-api)
-A simple REST API to expose Solr view and download statistics for items in a DSpace repository. This project contains a standalone indexing component and a WSGI application.
+# DSpace Statistics API [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ilri/dspace-statistics-api.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ilri/dspace-statistics-api)
+DSpace versions 4.0 and up include a [REST API](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/REST+API) that allows the repository to be queried programmatically. The API exposes information about communities, collections, items, and bitstreams, but not item views or downloads. This project contains a lightweight indexer and a web application to make the view and download statistics available via a simple REST API that can be deployed simultaneously with DSpace's own.
+
+You can read more about the Solr queries used to gather the item view and download statistics on the [DSpace wiki](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr).
 
 ## Requirements
 
@@ -59,14 +61,16 @@ This would expose the API at `/rest/statistics`.
 ## Using the API
 The API exposes the following endpoints:
 
-  - GET `/items` — return views and downloads for all items that Solr knows about¹. Accepts `limit` and `page` query parameters for pagination of results.
-  - GET `/item/id` — return views and downloads for a single item (*id* must be a positive integer). Returns HTTP 404 if an item id is not found.
+  - GET `/` — return a basic API documentation page.
+  - GET `/items` — return views and downloads for all items that Solr knows about¹. Accepts `limit` and `page` query parameters for pagination of results (`limit` must be an integer between 1 and 100, and `page` must be an integer greater than or equal to 0).
+  - GET `/item/id` — return views and downloads for a single item (`id` must be a positive integer). Returns HTTP 404 if an item id is not found.
 
-¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about items that have either views or downloads.
+The item id is the *internal* id for an item. You can get these from the standard DSpace REST API.
+
+¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about items that have either views or downloads. If an item is not present here you can assume it has zero views and zero downloads, but not necessarily that it does not exist in the repository.
 
 ## Todo
 
-- Add API documentation
 - Close DB connection when gunicorn shuts down gracefully
 - Better logging
 - Tests

dspace_statistics_api/app.py

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ import falcon
 db = database_connection()
 db.set_session(readonly=True)
 
+class RootResource:
+    def on_get(self, req, resp):
+        resp.status = falcon.HTTP_200
+        resp.content_type = 'text/html'
+        with open('dspace_statistics_api/docs/index.html', 'r') as f:
+            resp.body = f.read()
+
 class AllItemsResource:
     def on_get(self, req, resp):
         """Handles GET requests"""
@@ -64,6 +71,7 @@ class ItemResource:
         cursor.close()
 
 api = application = falcon.API()
+api.add_route('/', RootResource())
 api.add_route('/items', AllItemsResource())
 api.add_route('/item/{item_id:int}', ItemResource())
 

dspace_statistics_api/docs/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en-US">
+    <head>
+        <meta charset="UTF-8">
+        <title>DSpace Statistics API</title>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <h1>DSpace Statistics API</h1>
+        <p>This site is running the <a href="https://github.com/ilri/dspace-statistics-api" title="DSpace Statistics API project">DSpace Statistics API</a>. The following endpoints are available:</p>
+        <ul>
+            <li>GET <code>/</code> — return a basic API documentation page.</li>
+            <li>GET <code>/items</code> — return views and downloads for all items that Solr knows about¹. Accepts <code>limit</code> and <code>page</code> query parameters for pagination of results (<code>limit</code> must be an integer between 1 and 100, and <code>page</code> must be an integer greater than or equal to 0).</li>
+            <li>GET <code>/item/id</code> — return views and downloads for a single item (<code>id</code> must be a positive integer). Returns HTTP 404 if an item id is not found.</li>
+        </ul>
+
+        <p>The item id is the <em>internal</em> id for an item. You can get these from the standard DSpace REST API.</p>
+
+        <p>¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about items that have either views or downloads. If an item is not present here you can assume it has zero views and zero downloads, but not necessarily that it does not exist in the repository.</code>
+    </body>
+</html>