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kiwidude · 10-14-2022, 10:53 AM

In my Find Duplicates plugin, the main "Find Book Duplicates" functionality respects whatever virtual library search restriction you have applied.

EDIT: On further reading I can see that it uses self.gui.library_view.model() to operate within, and then only where it needs a more specific subset that it uses db.data.search_getting_ids() passing the restriction through.

However the Metadata Variations duplicate check does *not* currently respect the virtual library selection. Looking at the code I wrote forever ago, it seems that for those searches I am invoking one of the following depending on user selection:

db.get_authors_with_ids()
db.get_series_with_ids()
db.get_publishers_with_ids()
db.get_tags_with_ids()

Is there an API equivalent I could use for these that could take a search_restriction argument? Or should I just iterate over the model to build up my own dictionaries?

10-14-2022, 10:53 AM	#1
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,730 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Is there a way to get author/tag/series/publisher ids+text within a virtual library? In my Find Duplicates plugin, the main "Find Book Duplicates" functionality respects whatever virtual library search restriction you have applied. EDIT: On further reading I can see that it uses self.gui.library_view.model() to operate within, and then only where it needs a more specific subset that it uses db.data.search_getting_ids() passing the restriction through. However the Metadata Variations duplicate check does not currently respect the virtual library selection. Looking at the code I wrote forever ago, it seems that for those searches I am invoking one of the following depending on user selection: db.get_authors_with_ids() db.get_series_with_ids() db.get_publishers_with_ids() db.get_tags_with_ids() Is there an API equivalent I could use for these that could take a search_restriction argument? Or should I just iterate over the model to build up my own dictionaries? Last edited by kiwidude; 10-14-2022 at 11:02 AM. Reason: Found more info...