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0.4.1 - (2/10/2022)

Fixed

  • Handling of unexpected 206 HTTP code that is occasionally returned by the MetadataAPI /brief-bibs endpoint

Changed

  • requests to OCLC services are now handled by a new query.Query class
  • dependencies update
    • requests to 2.27.1
    • dev dependencies

0.4.0 - (6/22/2021)

Changed

  • Changes to MetadataSession.search_brief_bibs method due to /brief-bibs endpoint changes:
    • removed deprecated argument heldBy
    • added groupVariantRecord and preferredLanuage argument
    • modified groupRelatedEditions to allow boolean arguments
  • Changes to MetadataSession.search_general_holdings method due to API changes:
    • added following arguements: holdingsAllVariantRecords, preferredLanguage
    • removed deprecated heldBy argument
  • Changes to MetadataSession.search_brief_bib_other_editions:
    • added deweyNumber, datePublished, heldByGroup, heldBySymbol, heldByInstitutionId, inLanguage, inCatalogLanguage, materialType, catalogSource, itemType, itemSubType, retentionCommitments, spProgram, topic, subtopic, audience, content, openAccess, peerReviewed, facets, groupVariantRecords, preferredLanguage, and orderBy.

0.3.5 - (6/2/2021)

Changed

  • Dependencies update
    • urllib3 from 1.26.4 to 1.26.5

0.3.4 - (3/22/2021)

Changed

  • Dependencies update
    • certifi to 2020.12.5
    • chardet to 4.0.0
    • requests to 2.25.1
    • urllib3 to 1.26.4

0.3.3 - (12/28/2020)

Added

  • Type hints
  • Default timeout in the MetadataSesssion extended to 5 seconds

Changed

  • Dependencies:
    • pytest bump to 6.1.2
    • mypy 0.7.8

0.3.2 - (11/25/2020)

Fixed

  • MetadataSession timeout paramerter correctly passed into every session request

0.3.1 - (11/24/2020)

Fixed

  • Fixed auto refreshing of the access token when expired
  • testing: fixed testing for error messages on exceptions & testing of stale tokens

Changed

  • Dependencies bump
    • certifi from 2020.6.20 to 2020.11.8
    • requests from 2.24.0 to 2.25.0
    • urlib3 from 1.25.10 to 1.26.2

Added

  • Added Python 3.9 testing to CI

0.3.0 - (10/03/2020)

Changed

  • Introduces multiple breaking changes compared to the previous version!
  • Dropped features related to the WorldCat Search API
  • Support for Worldcat Metadata API v.1.1 introduced in May 2020
  • Supported Metdata API endpoints:
    • /bibs-retained-holdings
    • /bibs-summary-holdings
    • /brief-bibs
    • /brief-bibs/{oclcNumber}
    • /brief-bibs/{oclcNumber}/other-editions
    • /bib/data/{oclcNumber}
    • /bib/checkcontrolnumbers
    • /ih/data (POST|DELETE)
    • /ih/checkholdings
    • /ih/datalist (POST|DELETE)

Added

  • API reference added to docs with mkapi

0.2.1 - (9/28/2020)

Added

  • added functionality for docs versioning with mike

0.2.0 - (04/30/2020)

Added

  • Expanded and improved documentation
  • Customizable "user-agent" in session header and token request
  • TokenRequestError exception added on failed access token request

Changed

  • SRU/CQL query syntax aligned with OCLC specifications

Fixed

  • fixed hooks info in docstrings in SearchSession and MetadataSession