Saving my own data in Calibre's database

Pepin33 · 10-05-2012, 05:44 AM

I'm working in a plugin to log the changes I made on a library (add books or formats, delete books or formats, etc) to be able to replicates it again.

I need to save a list of the changes on every book. And I was looking at Calibre's database to find if there is a table to do this.

I found the "books_plugin_data" table, with this fields: id, book, name and val. Can I use this table to store my values, or is it intended to store another thing?

If it's unsuitable to use Calibre's tables to store data from plugins, what's the correct way to do this? (maybe a JSON file?)

kovidgoyal · 10-05-2012, 06:20 AM

books_plugin_data is meant to be used by 3rd party plugins. Feel free to use it. Just make sure you prefix the values you put into the name column with something fairly unique so that it does not conflict with other plugins.

Pepin33 · 10-05-2012, 06:33 AM

Thank you very much for the help, kovidgoyal. I'll follow your advices.

kovidgoyal · 10-05-2012, 10:57 AM

And just in case you aren;t aware of it there is API in database2.py to use that table, which you should use. add_custom_book_data()/get_custom_book_data()

10-05-2012, 05:44 AM	#1
Pepin33 Zealot Posts: 109 Karma: 419 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Spain Device: Kindle Touch	Saving my own data in Calibre's database I'm working in a plugin to log the changes I made on a library (add books or formats, delete books or formats, etc) to be able to replicates it again. I need to save a list of the changes on every book. And I was looking at Calibre's database to find if there is a table to do this. I found the "books_plugin_data" table, with this fields: id, book, name and val. Can I use this table to store my values, or is it intended to store another thing? If it's unsuitable to use Calibre's tables to store data from plugins, what's the correct way to do this? (maybe a JSON file?)

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10-05-2012, 06:20 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,922 Karma: 22669820 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	books_plugin_data is meant to be used by 3rd party plugins. Feel free to use it. Just make sure you prefix the values you put into the name column with something fairly unique so that it does not conflict with other plugins.

10-05-2012, 06:33 AM	#3
Pepin33 Zealot Posts: 109 Karma: 419 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Spain Device: Kindle Touch	Thank you very much for the help, kovidgoyal. I'll follow your advices.

10-05-2012, 10:57 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,922 Karma: 22669820 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	And just in case you aren;t aware of it there is API in database2.py to use that table, which you should use. add_custom_book_data()/get_custom_book_data()

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