[chaley]

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.

This template contains an example of what you put "here".

python:
def evaluate(book, context):
	db = context.db

	from calibre.ebooks.metadata.book.base import Metadata
	ids, duplicates = db.new_api.add_books([(Metadata(None), {})])
	print(ids, duplicates)

	from calibre.gui2.ui import get_gui
	gui = get_gui()
	gui.current_db.data.refresh()
	gui.library_view.model().resort()
	gui.tags_view.recount()

	gui.library_view.set_current_row(book_id=ids[0])
	return 'a string'