zotero/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/ingester/selectitems.js

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// Scholar_Ingester_Interface_SelectItems
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// Class to interface with the browser when ingesting data

Scholar_Ingester_Interface_SelectItems = function() {}

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// Public Scholar_Ingester_Interface_SelectItems methods
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/*
 * Initialize some variables and prepare event listeners for when chrome is done
 * loading
 */
Scholar_Ingester_Interface_SelectItems.init = function() {
	this.io = window.arguments[0];
	this.Scholar_Ingester_Interface = window.arguments[1];
	var listbox = document.getElementById("scholar-selectitems-links");
	
	for(i in this.io.dataIn) {	// we could use a tree for this if we wanted to
		var itemNode = document.createElement("listitem");
		itemNode.setAttribute("type", "checkbox");
		itemNode.setAttribute("value", i);
		itemNode.setAttribute("label", this.io.dataIn[i]);
		itemNode.setAttribute("checked", false);
		listbox.appendChild(itemNode);
	}
}

Scholar_Ingester_Interface_SelectItems.acceptSelection = function() {
	var listbox = document.getElementById("scholar-selectitems-links");
	
	var returnObject = false;
	this.io.dataOut = new Object();
	
	// collect scrapeURLList from listbox
	for(var i=0; i<listbox.childNodes.length; i++) {
		var itemNode = listbox.childNodes[i];
		if(itemNode.getAttribute("checked") == "true") {
			this.io.dataOut[itemNode.getAttribute("value")] = itemNode.getAttribute("label");
			returnObject = true;
		}
	}
	
	// What a hack! this makes code down the road much easier because otherwise
	// an empty array is true but empty and we can't figure that out, because
	// there's no length
	if(!returnObject) {
		this.io.dataOut = null;
	}
}