Preamble

This post describes the new developements in metafacture-core release 5.4.0 since the release of metafacture-core-5.3.2 in May 2022.

Table of Contents

Changes

New Features

• HTTP: Enable other methods to HttpOpener than just GET - i.e. DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, POST, PUT and TRACE #463
• HTTP: Enable generic header support in HttpOpener #456
• File: Add support for compressed files as FileMap input #455
• JSON: Implement JSON booleans and numbers #458

Have a look at flux-commands how to use these features.

Other

• Update OAI-PMH harvester library #360
• ”./gradlew fluxCommands” to see the currently available options (743e90e)

… and various smaller fixes and improvements (e.g. Mark deprecated Flux command options in help output #451)