From 54de1ac71def7d0de7b893aa0546c7a4df0a2d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pascal-Nicolas Becker <dspace@pascal-becker.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:39:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add handles in canonical form to the metadata.

---
 .../dspace/identifier/VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider.java   | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/identifier/VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider.java b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/identifier/VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider.java
index f7e62e22f5..49cd18886d 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/identifier/VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/identifier/VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider.java
@@ -428,9 +428,10 @@ public class VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider extends IdentifierProvider {
         return identifier;
     }
     
-    protected void populateHandleMetadata(Context context, Item item, String handleref)
+    protected void populateHandleMetadata(Context context, Item item, String handle)
             throws SQLException, IOException, AuthorizeException
     {
+        String handleref = getCanonicalForm(handle);
         // we want to remove the old handle and insert the new. To do so, we 
         // load all identifiers, clear the metadata field, re add all 
         // identifiers which are not from type handle and add the new handle.