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Originally Posted by fidvo

I'm trying to create a module that adds an empty book and fills in some default metadata. Everything works except that the book doesn't show up in the book list until I reload the library (for example by restarting Calibre or switching to a different library and back). Here is my code:

from calibre_plugins.action_chains.actions.base import ChainAction
from calibre.ebooks.metadata.book.base import Metadata

class TestAddEmpty(ChainAction):
    name = 'Add Empty'

    def run(self, gui, settings, chain):
        db = gui.current_db
        ids, duplicates = db.new_api.add_books([(Metadata(None), {})])

        # What do I put here?

        newid = ids[0]
        gui.library_view.select_rows([newid])

I assume I have to add something at the # What do I put here? marker in order to make the new book show up, but I don't know what it is. Any ideas?

Thanks.

I have no idea why this is happening. I tried adding either one of these two lines, to no avail:

gui.iactions['Add Books'].refresh_gui(1,set_current_row=0)

gui.library_view.model().books_added(1)

Maybe if you post this in the development forum Kovid of chaley can help.