This mostly gets ZFS file syncing and file conflict resolution working
with the API sync process. WebDAV will need to be updated separately.
Known issues:
- File sync progress is temporarily gone
- File uploads can result in an unnecessary 412 loop on the next data
sync
- This causes Firefox to crash on one of my computers during tests,
which would be easier to debug if it produced a crash log.
Also:
- Adds httpd.js for use in tests when FakeXMLHttpRequest can't be used
(e.g., saveURI()).
- Adds some additional test data files for attachment tests
- Different constructor parameters
- id property for logging
- fcall() -> start()
- add() to enqueue without starting
- runAll() to run down queue and return promises for all current tasks
- wait() to wait for all running tasks to finish
When called on an identified object (i.e., one with an id or
library/key), loadAllData() must be called first. When called on a new
object (which is more common anyway), fromJSON() can be called
immediately.
Absolute paths have been stored as strings on all platforms for a while,
but old Mac persistent descriptors (Base64-encoded opaque alias records)
could still exist in the DB. Additionally, relative paths for stored
files were stored as Mozilla-specific opaque strings rather than UTF-8
strings.
This adds a schema step to convert those to strings paths in the DB.
Since Mac persistent descriptors aren't converted if the file isn't
found, we still handle and (convert) old-style persistent descriptors if
necessary when reading paths from the DB.
This also moves path string handling -- converting a path to a prefixed
string for stored or base-dir-relative files -- to the
Zotero.Item#attachmentPath setter instead of save() so that reading it
back immediately returns the correct value. One consequence is that the
attachment link mode must now be set before setting the path.
Zotero.Item#getFile() is now deprecated in favor of getFilePath() and
getFilePathAsync() (which checks file existence).
Zotero.File.directoryContains() now takes string paths instead of files.
Also:
* _finalizeErase in Zotero.DataObject is now inheritable
* Call _initErase before starting a DB transaction
* removes Zotero.Libraries.add and Zotero.Libraries.remove (doesn't seem like this is used any more)
This will appear much less frequently, since non-conflicting field changes on
both sides can be resolved automatically, but genuine field conflicts still
require manual conflict resolution.
The merge pane is no longer editable, since the itembox code to do that is
async and can't run in a modal window, but it's not really necessary,
particularly with conflicts happening less frequently.
TODO:
- Remote item deletions
- File conflicts
- Maybe handle some edge cases where the conflicted items fail to save
Save uploaded data to cache, and update local object if necessary (which
it mostly shouldn't be except for invalid characters and HTML filtering
in notes)
Also add some upload and JSON tests
There's a lot more to do, and this isn't ready for actual usage, but the
basic functionality is mostly in place and has decent test coverage. It
can successfully upgrade a library last used with classic syncing and
pull down changes via the API. Uploading mostly works but is currently
disabled for safety until it has better test coverage.
Downloaded JSON is first saved to a cache table, which is then used to
populate other tables and later for generating PATCH requests and
automatically resolving conflicts (since it shows what was changed
locally and what was changed remotely). Objects with unmet dependencies
or unknown fields are skipped for now but don't block the rest of the
sync.
Some of the bigger remaining to-dos:
- Tests for uploading
- Re-do the preferences to get an API key
- File sync integration
- Full-text syncing integration
- Manual conflict resolution (though this already includes much smarter
conflict handling that automatically resolves many conflicts)
Previously, if .synced was already true, setting it to true and saving
would result in .synced == false unless skipSyncedUpdate was passed. Now
the value assigned to .synced is always used on the next save. If the
value hasn't changed and no other values have changed, a save will be a
no-op.
The default items cause problems with conflict resolution for existing
users (and not syncing them or ignoring conflicts for them is kind of
weird), and they require remote changes for new databases. I do like
there not being a completely empty library, but I think it's probably
better just to display a virtual welcome message with a link to the
Quick Start Guide somewhere else, such as in the right-hand pane. (A new
installation also opens the start page on zotero.org.)
- Simplified schema
- Tags are now added without reloading entire tag selector
- On my system, adding 400 tags to an item (separately, with the tag
selector updating each time) went from 59 seconds to 42. (Given that
it takes only 13 seconds with the tag selector closed, though,
there's clearly more work to be done.)
- Tag selector now uses HTML flexbox (in identical fashion, for now, but
with the possibility of fancier changes later, and with streamlined
logic thanks to the flexbox 'order' property)
- Various async fixes
- Tests
Still need to make the progress indicator work again. Also there may be
some performance to be gained by pooling item saves into a transaction
if one is already open.
Restore prepopulated charset table, but this time with just the
encodings from the WHATWG Encoding Standard. Assigning a charset to
Zotero.Item::attachmentCharset runs the value through
Zotero.CharacterSets.toCanonical() automatically.
This migrates attachment charsets to the new canonical values, clearing any
that are unsupported.
Other legacy mappings could still be added back, as disussed in #760.
This uses ISO 8601 dates for generateAllTypesAndFieldsData (and
changes populateDBWithSampleData to use Item#fromJSON), and makes
translators expect ISO 8601 accessDates, although SQL accessDates are
still supported with a deprecation warning. Canonicalization happens in
Zotero.Translate, so I need to remember to update connectors as well.
And add group.fromJSON(json, userID), which sets editable and
filesEditable properties based on the group JSON (libraryReading, role
lists, etc.) and the given user
Also adds Zotero.DataObjects::getLoaded(), which returns an array of all
loaded objects of the given type. This is useful for selective
reloading, for example with item.reload(['relations'], true).
Waits for an alert or confirmation dialog to open and closes it
automatically, optionally after running onOpen(dialog) to check its
contents (e.g., with dialog.document.documentElement.textContent) and
optionally clicking a button other than 'accept' (e.g., 'cancel',
extra1').
Supports delayed accept buttons
In particular, 0 is kept as a value, and passing undefined to setField
now throws an error.
I'm not sure if we actually want to return an empty string in all cases
for missing/invalid fields, but that's what we do currently.
And simplify tree view load event handling, which may or may not have
been contributing to intermittent test failures, but is cleaner this way
regardless.
Relations are now properties of collections and items rather than
first-class objects, stored in separate collectionRelations and
itemRelations tables with ids for subjects, with foreign keys to the
associated data objects.
Related items now use dc:relation relations rather than a separate table
(among other reasons, because API syncing won't necessarily sync both
items at the same time, so they can't be stored by id).
The UI assigns related-item relations bidirectionally, and checks for
related-item and linked-object relations are done unidirectionally by
default.
dc:isReplacedBy is now dc:replaces, so that the subject is an existing
object, and the predicate is now named
Zotero.Attachments.replacedItemPredicate.
Some additional work is still needed, notably around following
replaced-item relations, and migration needs to be tested more fully,
but this seems to mostly work.
getGroup() can be used to access a default group library for general
group tests. createGroup() can be used to create one for a particular
test or set of tests.
The test runner now downloads and caches the PDF tools for the current
platform within the test data directory and only redownloads them when
out of date, and it updates the download URL so that the full-text code
pulls from the cache directory via a file:// URL.
The installPDFTools() support function now installs the files directly
instead of going through the prefs, and a new uninstallPDFTools()
function removes the tools. Since the presence of the PDF tools can
affect other tests, tests that need the tools should install them in a
before() and uninstall them in an after(), leaving most tests to run
without PDF indexing.
This also adds a callback to the waitForWindow() support function. If a
modal dialog is opened, it blocks the next promise handler from running,
so a callback has to be used to interact with and close the dialog
immediately.
