The Scholar database is backed up on browser close. On startup, if the main database is damaged, the extension saves a copy of the damaged file and tries to restore from the last automatic backup. If it fails, it creates a new database file.
New methods:
Scholar.getScholarDatabase(string [ext])
Scholar.backupDatabase()
Scholar.moveToUnique(file, newFile) -- find a unique filename using the leafName of newFile as the suggested name (using the built-in Mozilla functionality) and move the file there
Scholar.Date.getFileDateString(file)
Scholar.Date.getFileTimeString(file)
Closes#146, ScholarPane.selectItem(id)
Closes#147, "Edit in a Separate Window" on a note should select the note's parent item.
Addresses #143, Scholar toolbar button to save current page as an independent file in the selected project.
- Standalone Files are now added to the current Project.
Files added to an item are now actually attached to the item.
Closes#118, add "translator" creator type
Closes#122, add DOI and abbreviated journal title fields
Addresses #45, reorder item fields -- source/rights moved down to bottom; date fields not yet moved
Returns the first 80 characters of the note content as the title
Also changed setField() to use the loadIn parameter for primary fields so it can be used instead of this._data without affected _changedItems
for the moment, this feature is disabled on the mac, since firefox can't handle HTML on the clipboard (and thus we can't copy the fully formatted bibliography). i can re-enable it if it would be useful regardless.
closes#4, Make printable version
- moves functions for creating and deleting hidden browser objects to scholar.js (from ingester.js), since these are necessary for printing as well
- allows saving bibliography in HTML or printing bibliography. style support is not yet complete (pending finalization of 0.9 version of CSL specification).
Closes#128, Display files as children of item in items list
Fixes#132, On Full-screen mode, browser content disappears but Scholar content does not stretch.
Fixes#133, When Scholar on top, pane automatically resizes depending on item info height.
Not finished, but enough to give David something to work with
No BLOBs -- just linking/importing of files and loaded documents
New Scholar.Item methods:
incrementFileCount() (used internally)
decrementFileCount() (used internally)
isFile()
numFiles()
getFile() -- returns nsILocalFile or false if associated file doesn't exist (note: always returns false for items with LINK_MODE_LINKED_URL, since they have no files -- use getFileURL() instead)
getFileURL() -- returns URL string
getFileLinkMode() -- compare to Scholar.Files.LINK_MODE_* constants: LINKED_FILE, IMPORTED_FILE, LINKED_URL, IMPORTED_URL
getFileMimeType() -- mime type of file (e.g. text/plain)
getFileCharset() -- charsetID of file
getFiles() -- array of file itemIDs this file is a source for
New Scholar.Files methods:
importFromFile(nsIFile file [, int sourceItemID])
linkFromFile(nsIFile file [, int sourceItemID])
importFromDocument(nsIDOMDocument document [, int sourceItemID])
linkFromDocument(nsIDOMDocument document [, int sourceItemID])
New class Scholar.FileTypes -- partially implemented, not yet used
New class Scholar.CharacterSets -- same as other *Types classes:
getID(idOrName)
getName(idOrName)
getTypes() (aliased to getAll(), which I'll probably change the others to as well)
Charsets table with all official character sets (copied from Mozilla source)
Renamed Item.setNoteSource() to setSource() and Item.getNoteSource() to getSource() and adjusted to handle both notes and files
- ScholarPane.getSelectedCollection() returns collection object, or null if Library is selected.
- ScholarPane.getSelectedItem() returns selected item/note/item-like-thing, or null if no item is selected.
add Scholar.Cite and Scholar.CSL for parsing items into a bibliography using CSL. unfortunately, the output is not very good at the moment, and the format likely needs some changes, but I'm working with a few other people on getting it to that point.
Fixes#115, Windows should open with Scholar Pane closed.
Fixes#105, search box loses focus after search starts.
Retooled the interface a bit, and removed the top toolbar. The close and fullscreen buttons are located to the right of the items toolbar. The item pane cannot be collapsed.
closes#100, migrate ingester to Scholar.Translate
closes#88, migrate scrapers away from RDF
closes#9, pull out LC subject heading tags
references #87, add fromArray() and toArray() methods to item objects
API changes:
all translation (import/export/web) now goes through Scholar.Translate
all Scholar-specific functions in scrapers start with "Scholar." rather than the jumbled up piggy bank un-namespaced confusion
scrapers now longer specify items through RDF (the beginning of an item.fromArray()-like function exists in Scholar.Translate.prototype._itemDone())
scrapers can be any combination of import, export, and web (type is the sum of 1/2/4 respectively)
scrapers now contain functions (doImport, doExport, doWeb) rather than loose code
scrapers can call functions in other scrapers or just call the function to translate itself
export accesses items item-by-item, rather than accepting a huge array of items
MARC functions are now in the MARC import translator, and accessed by the web translators
new features:
import now works
rudimentary RDF (unqualified dublin core only), RIS, and MARC import translators are implemented (although they are a little picky with respect to file extensions at the moment)
items appear as they are scraped
MARC import translator pulls out tags, although this seems to slow things down
no icon appears next to a the URL when Scholar hasn't detected metadata, since this seemed somewhat confusing
apologizes for the size of this diff. i figured if i was going to re-write the API, i might as well do it all at once and get everything working right.
caveats:
- it's not human readable. mozilla doesn't nest blank nodes, so everything's scattered throughout the file. it would be relatively easy to do post-processing with E4X or even regexps to correct this.
- there's no generic callNumber field, so all callNumbers are encoded as LCC.
adds container creation routines to dataMode rdf
changes Dublin Core export to Unqualified Dublin Core, and removes DC Terms qualifiers
This custom credits panel gives us more flexibility. Also, there is an About link which is certainly easier to find than right-clicking on the extension in the Add-ons window.
adds export of seeAlso info and project hierarchy to RDF. for now, this is embedded in the modsCollection root element.
uses nodeIDs for Dublin Core RDF.
