Problem: Cannot automate partial or metadata reingest via API usage

[ross-spencer]

We can see when a transfer is sitting at Ingest waiting to go, having initiated it via reingest in the storage service API:

{"message": "Fetched units successfully.", "results": [{"microservice": "Approve AIP reingest", "sip_name": "rein_3", "sip_directory": "rein_3-b66caa3e-e32c-4f8e-8352-eb6153c70699", "sip_uuid": "b66caa3e-e32c-4f8e-8352-eb6153c70699"}]}r

But it seems that there is no way to automate the approval of this request where we might have automated this work via a script along the lines of: artefactual/automation-tools#58

As a user making use of the AM/SS API to automate work, it may be useful to at the least be able to do this, where it can then be fully automated depending on the processing config used.

[ross-spencer]

NB would it be difficult to write an abstraction for the 'Get User choice ...' task types so that an API endpoint could be configured to send a generic start signal to initiate any particular user-choice? - I guess a complication is where there is an actual 'choice' not just an approve, where the endpoint might also want to be capable to providing the options, and then enabling a user to send one back for Archivematica to proceed.

[ross-spencer]

Okay, so having learned a little more about Archivematica and with the help of @sromkey I can see that this can be achieved using the RPC client available with devtools here: https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-devtools

I have recorded an asciinema video to show how this would work for partial re-ingest: https://asciinema.org/a/195109