- Remove the unused "accessmode" column from the results returned by the "findAssignmentsQuery".

- Update dependencies.
- Code polishing.

build.gradle

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ dependencies {
     }
     implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.6-3'  // Even though this is part of the above dependency, the Apache commons rarely updates it, while the zstd team makes improvements very often.
 
-    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.5.10'
+    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.5.11'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.cloudera.impala/jdbc
     implementation("com.cloudera.impala:jdbc:2.5.31") {
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ dependencies {
 
     // Add back some updated version of the needed dependencies.
     implementation 'org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.17.0' // Newer versions (>=0.18.X) are not compatible with JAVA 8.
-    implementation 'com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core:6.6.2'
+    implementation 'com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core:7.0.0'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.code.gson/gson
     implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.11.0'

src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/services/StatsServiceImpl.java

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ public class StatsServiceImpl implements StatsService {
         // Before all the records are inspected, this endpoint will report all the inspected records MINUS the duplicate records which come straight from the "publication" table.
 
         final String getInspectedRecordsNumberQuery = "select count(dist.id) from (select distinct id, original_url from " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".attempt) as dist";
+        // An ID related to multiple urls is counted as many times as the number of distinct urls associated with it.
         try {
             Object result = jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(getInspectedRecordsNumberQuery, Integer.class);
             if ( result != null ) {

src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/services/UrlsServiceImpl.java

@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ public class UrlsServiceImpl implements UrlsService {
 
         // Create the Assignments from the id-urls stored in the database up to the < assignmentsLimit >.
         String findAssignmentsQuery =
-            "select pubid, url, datasourceid, datasourcename, accessmode\n" +   // Select the final sorted data with "assignmentsLimit".
-            "from (select distinct p.id as pubid, pu.url as url, pb.level as level, attempts.counts as attempt_count, p.year as pub_year, d.id as datasourceid, d.name as datasourcename, p.accessmode\n" +   // Select the distinct id-url data. Beware that this will return duplicate id-url pairs, wince one pair may be associated with multiple datasources.
+            "select pubid, url, datasourceid, datasourcename\n" +   // Select the final sorted data with "assignmentsLimit".
+            "from (select distinct p.id as pubid, pu.url as url, d.id as datasourceid, d.name as datasourcename, attempts.counts as attempt_count, pb.level as level, p.accessmode, p.year as pub_year\n" +   // Select the distinct id-url data. Beware that this will return duplicate id-url pairs, wince one pair may be associated with multiple datasources.
             "   from " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".publication_urls pu\n" +
             "       join " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".publication p on p.id=pu.id\n" +
             "       join " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".datasource d on d.id=p.datasourceid and d.allow_harvest=true"+
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ public class UrlsServiceImpl implements UrlsService {
             "       left anti join (select a.original_url from " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".assignment a\n" +
             "           union all\n" +
             "           select pl.original_url from " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".payload pl\n" + // Here we access the payload-VIEW which includes the three payload-tables.
+                    // todo - should we check the "actual-url" here as well??
             "           ) as existing\n" +
             "           on existing.original_url=pu.url\n" +
             "       left outer join " + DatabaseConnector.databaseName + ".publication_boost pb\n" +
@@ -182,7 +183,6 @@ public class UrlsServiceImpl implements UrlsService {
                     assignment.setOriginalUrl(rs.getString(2));
                     datasource.setId(rs.getString(3));
                     datasource.setName(rs.getString(4));
-                    // The 5th column is the "accessmode" which we do not need after the prioritization takes place in the query.
                 } catch (SQLException sqle) {
                     logger.error("No value was able to be retrieved from one of the columns of row_" + rs.getRow(), sqle);
                 }