cgreweling/matterhorn-workflowoperation-mediapackagepost

Workflow handler for Opencast Matterhorn which send a processed Mediapackage to a remote webservice

============================================= matterhorn-workflowoperation-mediapackagepost

This Opencast Matterhorn workflowoperation handler can be used to send a POST request containing the currently processed Mediapackage to an external webservice.

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Features

• Send Mediapackage to remote webservice
• Handle HTTP Basic/Digest authentication
• Send additional data

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Contributors

• Benjamin Wulff [email protected] Original Author
• Lars Kiesow [email protected] Current Maintainer

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Workflow Configuration

The workflowoperation handler can be integrated like this:

<!--
	This operation will send a POST request containing the Mediapackage to an
	external webservice.
-->
<operation
	id="post-mediapackage"
	fail-on-error="false"
	exception-handler-workflow="error"
	description="Sending MediaPackage to Lernfunk3">
	<configurations>
		<!-- target url -->
		<configuration key="url">http://example.com:5000/</configuration>
		<!-- Use xml as export format -->
		<configuration key="format">xml</configuration>
		<!--
			Disable this on a productive system. if enabled, request bodies
			etc. will be written to log. Is disabled, only errors will be
			logged.
		-->
		<configuration key="debug">no</configuration>
		<!-- Type of Mediapackage to send (possible values: workflow, search; default: search) -->
		<configuration key="mediapackage.type">search</configuration>
		<!-- enable authentication (simple/digest will be detected automatically) -->
		<configuration key="auth.enabled">yes</configuration>
		 <!-- username for authentication -->
		<configuration key="auth.username">exportuser</configuration>
		<!-- password for authentication -->
		<configuration key="auth.password">secret</configuration>
		<!-- fields with keys beginning with + will be added to the message body -->
		<configuration key="+source_system">video.example.com</configuration>
	</configurations>
</operation>