Headers used by Sword

• Content-Type

  • Must when updating the metadata of a fileset
  • Used to determine if file is a metadata file (xml content type)

• Content-Disposition

  • Must for binary deposits
  • Used to determine original file name of file being submitted

• Content-MD5

  • Should provide for all deposits
  • When provided, the payload is validated against this md5 sum

• Packaging

  • Not used.
    I use file mime type to determine this data. The bagit library is used to determine if the provided data is a valid bag.

• In-Progress

  • When provided, this boolena value is saved in the appropriate metadata field in the model

• On-Behalf-Of

  • This field should contain the user's login id (email)
  • When provided, the user is fetched and used as the depositor

• Slug

  • used for create
  • When provided, the object is created using this identifier

• Hyrax-Work-Model

  • When used, the name of the class loaded before performing work requests is read from this field and the class is instantiated

• Api-key

  • MUST if sword requests need to be authenticated
  • When used all sword requests are authorized only if the api-key matches to a user record
  • This user is used when creating datasets to set the depositor