Open Library card: a named work (openlibraryid lookup) needs only a title; cover falls back to its ISBN, description optional

feeder-plugin/book-feeder/src/openlibrary.rs

@@ -169,14 +169,33 @@ fn foreign_identity_filter(q: &GatewayQuery) -> Option<&str> {
 /// what passes, permanently. A card that lacks another filter's key does not
 /// match it, which is the truth.
 pub fn to_record(doc: &SearchDoc, description: &str, query: &GatewayQuery) -> Option<DiscoveryRecord> {
+    to_record_with(doc, Some(description), query, false)
+}
+
+/// [`to_record`] with the quality bar as a choice.
+///
+/// `lenient = false` is the bar every search and browse row keeps: a cover **and**
+/// a description, or no card. `lenient = true` is for a lookup that names one work
+/// by `openlibraryid` (a work page): the work is already known to be wanted, so a
+/// title is enough. Its cover may come from the work's ISBNs when the work has none
+/// of its own, and a missing description is simply left out.
+pub fn to_record_with(
+    doc: &SearchDoc,
+    description: Option<&str>,
+    query: &GatewayQuery,
+    lenient: bool,
+) -> Option<DiscoveryRecord> {
     let id = doc.work_id()?;
     let cid = card_cid(id)?;
     let title = doc.title.as_deref().map(str::trim).filter(|t| !t.is_empty())?;
-    let poster_url = doc.cover_url()?;
+    let description = description.map(str::trim).filter(|d| !d.is_empty());
-    let description = description.trim();
+    let poster_url = if lenient {
-    if description.is_empty() {
+        doc.cover_url().or_else(|| doc.isbn_cover_url())
-        return None;
+    } else {
-    }
+        // Strict: both are required.
+        description?;
+        Some(doc.cover_url()?)
+    };
 
     let mut fields: BTreeMap<String, String> = BTreeMap::new();
 
@@ -200,7 +219,9 @@ pub fn to_record(doc: &SearchDoc, description: &str, query: &GatewayQuery) -> Op
 
     // `description/{lang3}`, never a flat `description` — the flat key is indexed
     // but never written (METADATA_KEYS.md §14.6).
-    fields.insert("description/eng".into(), description.to_string());
+    if let Some(d) = description {
+        fields.insert("description/eng".into(), d.to_string());
+    }
 
     let mut seen = HashSet::new();
     let authors: Vec<&str> = doc
@@ -224,7 +245,9 @@ pub fn to_record(doc: &SearchDoc, description: &str, query: &GatewayQuery) -> Op
 
     // ⚠ `poster_url`, NOT a pre-hashed `poster`: the gateway's SEEDABLE_FIELDS
     // path fetches it, seeds the bytes and writes the content cid back.
-    fields.insert("poster_url".into(), poster_url);
+    if let Some(url) = poster_url {
+        fields.insert("poster_url".into(), url);
+    }
 
     fields.insert(
         "sourceUrl".into(),
@@ -257,13 +280,14 @@ async fn project(
     query: &GatewayQuery,
     n: usize,
     deadline: Duration,
+    lenient: bool,
 ) -> Vec<DiscoveryRecord> {
     let mut seen = HashSet::new();
     let candidates: Vec<SearchDoc> = docs
         .into_iter()
         .filter(|d| {
             d.work_id().is_some()
-                && d.cover_url().is_some()
+                && (lenient || d.cover_url().is_some())
                 && d.title.as_deref().is_some_and(|t| !t.trim().is_empty())
         })
         .filter(|d| seen.insert(d.key.clone()))
@@ -286,7 +310,7 @@ async fn project(
                         debug!(from = doc.key, to = w.id, "openlibrary: merged work; skipped");
                         return None;
                     }
-                    to_record(&doc, w.description.as_deref()?, query)
+                    to_record_with(&doc, w.description.as_deref(), query, lenient)
                 }
                 Ok(None) => None,
                 Err(e) => {
@@ -437,7 +461,9 @@ impl FeederPlugin for OpenLibraryPlugin {
             let Some(doc) = client.doc_by_work_id(id, SEARCH_DEADLINE).await? else {
                 return Ok(Vec::new());
             };
-            return Ok(project(client, vec![doc], query, 1, SEARCH_DEADLINE).await);
+            // Lenient: an explicit work lookup keeps the card even without a
+            // description, and finds a cover by ISBN when the work has none.
+            return Ok(project(client, vec![doc], query, 1, SEARCH_DEADLINE, true).await);
         }
 
         // A curated row.
@@ -455,7 +481,7 @@ impl FeederPlugin for OpenLibraryPlugin {
                         .await?
                 }
             };
-            return Ok(project(client, docs, query, n, BROWSE_DEADLINE).await);
+            return Ok(project(client, docs, query, n, BROWSE_DEADLINE, false).await);
         }
 
         // Free text.
@@ -470,7 +496,7 @@ impl FeederPlugin for OpenLibraryPlugin {
         let docs = client
             .search(text, (n * SEARCH_OVERFETCH).min(MAX_LIMIT), SEARCH_DEADLINE)
             .await?;
-        Ok(project(client, docs, query, n, SEARCH_DEADLINE).await)
+        Ok(project(client, docs, query, n, SEARCH_DEADLINE, false).await)
     }
 
     /// A card has no bytes: the record IS the payload.
@@ -489,7 +515,8 @@ impl FeederPlugin for OpenLibraryPlugin {
         // different work (a merge) is not this cid's record.
         let record = match self.client.as_ref() {
             Some(c) => match c.doc_by_work_id(id, SEARCH_DEADLINE).await {
-                Ok(Some(doc)) => project(c, vec![doc], &GatewayQuery::from_free_text(""), 1, SEARCH_DEADLINE)
+                // Lenient, like the `openlibraryid` lookup that minted this card.
+                Ok(Some(doc)) => project(c, vec![doc], &GatewayQuery::from_free_text(""), 1, SEARCH_DEADLINE, true)
                     .await
                     .into_iter()
                     .find(|r| r.record_id == id),
@@ -545,6 +572,7 @@ mod tests {
             cover_i: Some(14348537),
             first_publish_year: Some(1813),
             id_project_gutenberg: vec![],
+            isbn: vec![],
         }
     }
 
@@ -651,6 +679,95 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(to_record(&edition, "A novel.", &q("", &[])).is_none());
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_lenient_card_needs_only_a_title_and_finds_a_cover_by_isbn() {
+        let mut d = pride();
+        d.cover_i = None;
+        d.isbn = vec!["1955252092".into(), "9781955252096".into()];
+        // Strict still refuses it, whatever the description.
+        assert!(to_record_with(&d, Some("A novel."), &q("", &[]), false).is_none());
+        // Lenient mints it with the ISBN-13 cover and no description at all.
+        let r = to_record_with(&d, None, &q("", &[]), true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            r.fields["poster_url"],
+            "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9781955252096-L.jpg?default=false"
+        );
+        assert!(!r.fields.keys().any(|k| k.starts_with("description")));
+        assert_eq!(r.fields["openlibraryid"], "OL66554W");
+        assert_eq!(r.fields["fileType"], "card");
+        // Same address as the strict card for the same work.
+        let strict = to_record(&pride(), "A novel.", &q("", &[])).unwrap();
+        let key = |r: &DiscoveryRecord| r.fields.keys().find(|k| k.starts_with("cids/")).cloned();
+        assert_eq!(key(&r), key(&strict));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_lenient_card_with_no_cover_anywhere_has_no_poster_rather_than_no_card() {
+        let mut d = pride();
+        d.cover_i = None;
+        let r = to_record_with(&d, None, &q("", &[]), true).unwrap();
+        assert!(!r.fields.contains_key("poster_url"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn isbn_cover_prefers_an_isbn13_and_ignores_junk() {
+        let mut d = SearchDoc::default();
+        d.isbn = vec!["not-an-isbn".into(), "0306406152".into(), "9780306406157".into()];
+        assert_eq!(
+            d.isbn_cover_url().as_deref(),
+            Some("https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780306406157-L.jpg?default=false")
+        );
+        d.isbn = vec!["0306406152".into()];
+        assert!(d.isbn_cover_url().unwrap().contains("0306406152"));
+        d.isbn = vec!["x".into()];
+        assert_eq!(d.isbn_cover_url(), None);
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_named_work_without_cover_or_description_still_gets_its_card_but_a_search_does_not() {
+        let server = MockServer::start().await;
+        let doc = json!({
+            "key": "/works/OL39284292W",
+            "title": "Mother of Learning",
+            "author_name": ["nobody103"],
+            "first_publish_year": 2021,
+            "language": ["eng"],
+            "isbn": ["9781955252096"]
+        });
+        // The lookup by id and the free-text search both find the same index doc.
+        Mock::given(method("GET"))
+            .and(path("/search.json"))
+            .respond_with(ResponseTemplate::new(200).set_body_json(json!({"numFound": 1, "docs": [doc]})))
+            .mount(&server)
+            .await;
+        Mock::given(method("GET"))
+            .and(path("/works/OL39284292W.json"))
+            .respond_with(ResponseTemplate::new(200).set_body_json(json!({
+                "key": "/works/OL39284292W", "title": "Mother of Learning"
+            })))
+            .mount(&server)
+            .await;
+        let (p, _dir) = plugin_against(&server).await;
+
+        let by_id = p
+            .handle_query(
+                &q("", &[("openlibraryid", "OL39284292W"), ("contentKind", "book")]),
+                10,
+            )
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(by_id.len(), 1, "the work page lookup yields a card");
+        assert_eq!(by_id[0].fields["title"], "Mother of Learning");
+        assert!(by_id[0].fields["poster_url"].contains("/b/isbn/9781955252096-L.jpg"));
+        assert!(!by_id[0].fields.keys().any(|k| k.starts_with("description")));
+
+        let by_search = p
+            .handle_query(&q("mother of learning", &[("fileType", "card"), ("contentKind", "book")]), 10)
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        assert!(by_search.is_empty(), "search rows keep the strict bar");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn echoes_browse_markers_but_no_other_filter() {
         let r = to_record(

feeder-plugin/book-feeder/src/openlibrary_client.rs

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ pub const DEFAULT_API_BASE: &str = "https://openlibrary.org";
 /// Cover image base. `-L` is the large rendition; the gateway seeds whatever
 /// `poster_url` names, so one size is published, not three.
 const COVERS_BASE: &str = "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id";
+/// Cover by ISBN. Open Library often holds an *edition's* cover for a work whose
+/// own `covers` list is empty.
+const COVERS_ISBN_BASE: &str = "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn";
 
 /// Config key (and env seed) for the operator contact sent in the User-Agent.
 pub const CONTACT_KEY: &str = "contact";
@@ -58,6 +61,9 @@ const RETRY_BACKOFF_MS: u64 = 250;
 /// The field selection for every doc-shaped request, written once so a card
 /// resolved by search and the same card resolved by id are byte-identical.
 const SEARCH_FIELDS: &str = "key,title,author_name,cover_i,first_publish_year,language";
+/// A lookup of one named work also asks for its ISBNs, so a cover can be found by
+/// ISBN. Not on the shared list: a search row would carry hundreds of ISBNs per doc.
+const DOC_BY_ID_FIELDS: &str = "key,title,author_name,cover_i,first_publish_year,language,isbn";
 
 /// Cache lifetimes.
 ///
@@ -199,6 +205,10 @@ pub struct SearchDoc {
     pub first_publish_year: Option<i32>,
     #[serde(default)]
     pub id_project_gutenberg: Vec<String>,
+    /// ISBNs of the work's editions. Only requested for an `openlibraryid`
+    /// lookup (see [`DOC_BY_ID_FIELDS`]); empty everywhere else.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub isbn: Vec<String>,
 }
 
 impl SearchDoc {
@@ -214,6 +224,22 @@ impl SearchDoc {
             .filter(|c| *c > 0)
             .map(|c| format!("{COVERS_BASE}/{c}-L.jpg"))
     }
+
+    /// A cover looked up by one of the work's ISBNs (an ISBN-13 when there is one),
+    /// for a work with no cover of its own.
+    ///
+    /// `?default=false` makes Open Library answer 404 when it has no image for the
+    /// ISBN, instead of a 1×1 placeholder that would be seeded as the poster.
+    pub fn isbn_cover_url(&self) -> Option<String> {
+        let digits_only = |s: &&String| s.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit());
+        let isbn = self
+            .isbn
+            .iter()
+            .filter(digits_only)
+            .find(|s| s.len() == 13)
+            .or_else(|| self.isbn.iter().filter(digits_only).find(|s| s.len() == 10))?;
+        Some(format!("{COVERS_ISBN_BASE}/{isbn}-L.jpg?default=false"))
+    }
 }
 
 /// What a work JSON contributes to a card.
@@ -440,12 +466,13 @@ impl OpenLibraryClient {
     ) -> Result<Option<SearchDoc>, GatewayError> {
         let body = self
             .get_cached(
-                &format!("openlibrary:key:{id}"),
+                // `key2`: entries cached before ISBNs were requested lack them.
+                &format!("openlibrary:key2:{id}"),
                 WORK_TTL_SECS,
                 "/search.json",
                 &[
                     ("q", format!("key:/works/{id}")),
-                    ("fields", SEARCH_FIELDS.into()),
+                    ("fields", DOC_BY_ID_FIELDS.into()),
                     ("limit", "1".into()),
                 ],
                 deadline,
@@ -493,6 +520,7 @@ impl OpenLibraryClient {
                 .and_then(|a| a.iter().filter_map(Value::as_i64).find(|c| *c > 0)),
             first_publish_year: None,
             id_project_gutenberg: Vec::new(),
+            isbn: Vec::new(),
         }))
     }