DSpace client CLI interface

[tomdesair]

We can add some CLI commands to the DSpace Python client that make it easier to explore and manipulate a DSpace repository via CLI or bash scripts. The initial idea here is to offer similar functionality like the kubectl command to explore a Kubernetes cluster. Some examples of how it could look like:

• dspace-client login https://api7.dspace.org
  • Login to the specified DSpace instance
• dspace-client get communities
  • List all communities
• dspace-client get collections
  • List all collections
• dspace-client metadata 12345/123
  • Display metadata by handle or uuid
• dspace-client view item <uuid>
  • Display item related data by uuid
• dspace-client download bitstream <uuid> -p <path>
  • Download bitstream to the specified path
• dspace-client community <uuid>
  • Set current active community
• dspace-client collection <uuid>
  • Set current active collection
• dspace-client add item -f <path-to-json-file>
  • Add item to current active collection based file path or piping data
• ...

Of course any of the underlying command implementation can be imported into other Python scripts as well.

I just wrote down things that popped up in my mind. Feel free to add or enhance commands.

[kshepherd]

great idea - the origin of the library was for a single batch operation but we can definitely allow one off CLI commands, even an interactive console perhaps?