Active Fedora

RubyFedora should provide an accessor to the disseminators listed when you call /methods on an object in Fedora's REST API.

Using demo:SmileyStuff as an example:

The REST API returns this when you call /demo:SmileyStuff/methods

<objectMethods xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.fedora.info/definitions/1/0/access/ http://localhost:8080/listMethods.xsd" pid="demo:SmileyStuff" baseURL="http://localhost:8080/fedora/">
<sDef pid="demo:Collection">
<method name="list"/>
<method name="view"/>
</sDef>
<sDef pid="fedora-system:3">
<method name="viewObjectProfile"/>
<method name="viewMethodIndex"/>
<method name="viewItemIndex"/>
<method name="viewDublinCore"/>
</sDef>
</objectMethods>

So calling

obj.inner_object.disseminators

should return a hash with the methods listed by sDef. ie.

{:pid="demo:SmileyStuff", 
 :baseURL="http://localhost:8080/fedora/", 
 "demo:Collection"=>["list","view"], 
 "fedora-system:3"=>["viewObjectProfile","viewMethodIndex","viewItemIndex","viewDublinCore"]}

Calling

obj.call_disseminator("demo:Collection", "list")

should call that disseminator on the object and return the result.

For completeness, the call_disseminator method in ActiveFedora should rely on a RubyFedora method like this

Fedora::Repository.instance.call_disseminator(obj.pid, "demo:Collection", "list")