Ex Libris Student Portal Sample App - My Library

Introduction

We're going to use the new Alma REST APIs to build a basic student portal with a few features to help get you started with Alma APIs.

The application does the following:

• Library card- we'll display some basic student information and allow users to update a few key data elements
• Requests- we'll show a list of the student's requests, and allow the user to cancel them
• Rooms- we probably won't get to this in the demo, but these applications always have three sections, so we needed to have a third!

It's meant to demo how to:

• Created an application to get an API Key
• Integrated with an authentication system to get an Alma identifier
• Made GET calls and received JSON formatted data, including arrays
• Made PUT and DELETE calls to Alma APIs to update and delete objects

About the App

The application is written in C# and uses the new Alma APIs described here. See also an extensive blog entry on this application here.

For those who are interested, this application has been ported to Ruby on Rails and is available here.