Previously you could use Zotero.DBConnection to open another database in
the data directory, but not one stored elsewhere in the filesystem. This
allows an absolute path to be passed instead. Various operations
(backups, corrupt DB recovery, pragma commands) are disabled for
external databases.
This previously returned false if a non-base-mapped field was passed,
even if the field was valid for the given item type. It now returns the
passed field as long as the field is valid for the type, which matches
the behavior for base fields.
1) text() wasn't handling the index property.
2) This removes the warning that attr()/text() no longer no require a
document as the first argument, because there's no reason to prevent
translators from being able to pass an element. It would require
rewriting various translators unnecessarily and make certain patterns
more verbose (because you'd need to match based on global scope in each
selector).
It won't be necessary to pass a Document once we remove 4.0 support and
the global attr()/text() are always available, so we can add a warning
for that then.
Fixeszotero/translators#1647
This is loosely based on the same functionality in ZotFile, but it tries
to do the right thing based on existing Zotero settings: either the new
PDF handler setting in the prefs or the system-default app. The latter
can only reliably be determined on Windows (and this uses ZotFile's
function to read that from the registry), but this tries to figure it
out on macOS and Linux too using the Mozilla handler service. (The
handler service only gets you an app name, not a path, so on Linux we
can try reading mimetypes.list and the like in case someone is using a
system-default okular or evince not in /usr/bin, but that's not yet
implemented.)
This uses the new 5.0 URL format, and a 'page' query parameter instead
of a path component:
zotero://open-pdf/library/items/[itemKey]?page=[page]
zotero://open-pdf/groups/[groupID]/items/[itemKey]?page=[page]
It also accepts ZotFile-style URLs, though, so if you uninstall ZotFile
you should still be able to open those links. ZotFile will need to
accept the new format for new links to work when ZotFile is installed,
since it will override this handler.
This functionality will be necessary for annotation extraction (#1018)
and for imported annotations from Mendeley (#1451).
Shows a prompt once per restart or once per day, whichever is longer,
with an option to not show again for a month. Can be disabled completely
by setting extensions.zotero.showConnectorVersionWarning to false.
Currently prompts for connector versions below 5.0.35.
This is a temporary solution for #1489 until the connector checks and
warns on its own when it's outdated and most people are on a version
that does that (particularly Safari users, who don't auto-upgrade).
