ActiveFedora::Finders
A mixin to allow use of dynamic finder methods (a la Rails) with ActiveFedora. These methods operate against the FCRepo Object Search.
Allowed fields are the 15 DCES metadata fields, and the FCRepo object properties, ie:
SINGLE_VALUE_FIELDS = [:pid, :cDate, :mDate, :label]
SYSTEM_FIELDS = SINGLE_VALUE_FIELDS.concat [:ownerId]
DC_FIELDS = [:contributor, :coverage, :creator, :date, :description, :format,
:identifier, :language, :publisher, :relation, :rights, :source,
:subject, :title, :type ]
SUPPORTED_ALTS = [:cdate, :create_date, :mdate, :modified_date, :owner_id]
Example:
class MyModel < ActiveFedora::Base
include ActiveFedora::Finders
end
obj = MyModel.find_by_identifier(“fedora-system:ContentModel-3.0”)
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Roadmap:
0.1: dynamic finders, bang support
0.2: support or_create|initialize
0.3: support _all and _last
0.4: support scopes