Comment 4 for bug 1528924

Regarding the lower case author, bib fields (title, author, etc.) will migrate to the code in progress with bug #1251394 over time. Some shortcuts were taken in the web staff code (using the reporter data) with this assumption in mind. I'd suggest not worrying about that for the time being, or at least no until we absolutely have to.

Regarding the rest, here's just enough info to create some confusion...

Beware some of this data, particularly the checkout/transaction data, will not be accessible via simple pcrud flesh query, the kind used by the itemSvc service in the item status app. (See the service.flesh object). Since a copy can be checked out many times, we have to decide which transaction's data will be displayed (before the data is fetched).

The XUL item status UI likely uses one of the open-ils.circ.copy_details.retrieve API calls, that handles all of this logic on the server. One option would be to grab supplementary data for each copy via this API call.

Or we could implement the similar logic via pcrud from the client. We do this to some degree already in ViewCtrl, e.g. loadCurrentCirc().

The Perl API is stable and well understood. Pcrud is generally faster and gives us more control in the client over what data we want to retrieve.

I'm not leaning in any direction at this point, just wanted to pass this on before we go down any dark alleys.