Quote:
Originally Posted by _Em
I plan to identify the merge records by parsing the following tree:
Code:
Check for Title
If exists,
Check for author
If exists,
Check for format
If exists, end
else
get book ID
merge books
else
add book
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The code find_identical_books at line 561 of database2.py basically does this, but in reverse. It starts with the author, instead of title, then does a fuzzy match on the book titles by that author (removes spaces, punctuation, etc.) to find "identical" books.
That code is used in add.py (line 159) to do the autosort/automerge work.
I was a bit confused by your comment that there was "no command line merge function" as I couldn't see many situations where you'd know the books to be merged outside of the GUI (i.e. how you would know the ID, other than by writing code to search for books to be merged.) I can see where you'd like the autosort/automerge of new formats into existing records, however.