Addresses #169, add OpenURL interface hooks
Addresses #170, Put "Link" option before "Import" in drop-down menu
Fixes some advanced search flaws (there are still bugs)
Closes#152, Saved Searches (interface layer)
For now, advanced search IS a saved search.
There are still bugs. The 'search' icon is ugly. I wanted to get it out there, however.
Scholar should now attempt to process citation information from EndNote download links (MIME types application/x-endnote-refer and application/x-research-info-systems). in situations where Scholar cannot process the information, a standard helper app dialog will appear. this behavior is controlled by the preference extensions.scholar.parseEndNoteMIMETypes.
Implemented advanced/saved search architecture -- to use, you create a new search with var search = new Scholar.Search(), add conditions to it with addCondition(condition, operator, value), and run it with search(). The standard conditions with their respective operators can be retrieved with Scholar.SearchConditions.getStandardConditions(). Others are for special search flags and can be specified as follows (condition, operator, value):
'context', null, collectionIDToSearchWithin
'recursive', 'true'|'false' (as strings!--defaults to false if not specified, though, so should probably just be removed if not wanted), null
'joinMode', 'any'|'all', null
For standard conditions, currently only 'title' and the itemData fields are supported -- more coming soon.
Localized strings created for the standard search operators
API:
search.setName(name) -- must be called before save() on new searches
search.load(savedSearchID)
search.save() -- saves search to DB and returns a savedSearchID
search.addCondition(condition, operator, value)
search.updateCondition(searchConditionID, condition, operator, value)
search.removeCondition(searchConditionID)
search.getSearchCondition(searchConditionID) -- returns a specific search condition used in the search
search.getSearchConditions() -- returns search conditions used in the search
search.search() -- runs search and returns an array of item ids for results
search.getSQL() -- will be used by Dan for search-within-search
Scholar.Searches.getAll() -- returns an array of saved searches with 'id' and 'name', in alphabetical order
Scholar.Searches.erase(savedSearchID) -- deletes a given saved search from the DB
Scholar.SearchConditions.get(condition) -- get condition data (operators, etc.)
Scholar.SearchConditions.getStandardConditions() -- retrieve conditions for use in drop-down menu (as opposed to special search flags)
Scholar.SearchConditions.hasOperator() -- used by Dan for error-checking
closes#76, implement extensible search/retrieval architecture for obtaining metadata
OpenURL COinS lookup is now implemented using a real search architecture system. at the moment, it works with Open WorldCat for books, CrossRef for journal articles (provided the COinS object contains a DOI or an ISSN), and PubMed when a PMID is available.
If you are simple removing an item from a project, it won't ask you if you want to delete files and notes.
ItemTreeView:
- notify() now works with multiple ids for action=modify.
- saveSelection() returns an array of selected IDs instead of saving it to a class variable
- rememberSelection(selection) takes an array of IDs.
OpenURL lookup now works for books. this means that all that's necessary to add scrapable book metadata to a page is an ISBN, as shown below:
<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.isbn=1579550088"></span>
also, we can now scrape Open WorldCat and Wikipedia Book Sources pages with no specialized code involved.
i'm still looking for a better way of looking up journal article metadata. it's currently implemented with CrossRef, but CrossRef simply will not work without a DOI, and is also incomplete (only holds the last name of the first author).
Scholar.OpenURL.resolve(item) returns the URL that retrieves an item from the user's OpenURL resolver. this means we can implement a "find in my library" feature.
Scholar.OpenURL.discoverResolvers() returns a list of available resolvers for the user's current location (by IP address).
closes#163, make translator API allow creator types besides author
import and export in the multi-ontology RDF format should now work properly. collections, notes, and see also are all preserved. more extensive testing will be necessary later.
Fixed ignoreCase logic (and also set all but CharacterSets to false, since there's no reason for them to be true)
Also made CachedTypes.getID() and getName() return false and '', respectively, on unknown types rather than letting them hit the error (there's still the 'invalid * type' debug message)
- We might want to do this for regular files as well? I think we need a discussion on how Citation will be presented to the user, and if that will save the web page, and all that jazz.
- eliminates "unresponsive script" message on import/export
i tried to make a progress bar that actually provides useful information, but for some reason, XUL interface updates are done asynchronously, and thus don't actually happen as long as the import/export operation continues. the code is there, but disabled, if there's some solution to this issue, but i searched and couldn't find one.
Temporarily added in a check of the backup file on startup, since I'm not entirely convinced that the backup mechanism on shutdown couldn't create a corrupt file under certain conditions
If you run with debug output on and notice the "Backup file was corrupt" message, let me know.
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.
