Query a patron's status over Koha's SIP2 self-check service
domain: koha-community.org · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Configure the Koha SIP2 server's SIPconfig.xml with the self-check device's login, password, and listening port
Open a raw TCP connection to the configured SIP2 port
Send a Patron Status Request message (command code 23) with the patron's institution ID and identifier
Parse the Patron Status Response (command code 24), reading the fixed-length patronStatus field plus the variable-length fields
Known gotchas
The 14-character patronStatus string is positional; each character index (not a named field) toggles a distinct status flag such as renewal privileges denied
SIP2 is a stateful, line-based protocol over a raw socket connection, not HTTP/REST, so standard REST client tooling cannot be reused as-is
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