V4.2.10 beta channel release

[chaley]

@kaufman and @iatheia: thanks for the comments. I am going to leave things as they are, at least for now. I find myself rather distracted at the moment (I live in Paris).

[Terisa de morgan]

@chaley, that's true. Sorry for not asking. How are you? Are you friends and family OK? When I saw the images I remembered Madrid (2004).

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

@chaley, that's true. Sorry for not asking. How are you? Are you friends and family OK? When I saw the images I remembered Madrid (2004).

[I hesitate to continue this conversation here. It is very clearly not a normal MobileRead topic. If a mod thinks it inappropriate, feel free to move or even delete it.]

Thanks for asking. No one I know was hurt.

There have been so many attacks over the last years, and in reality this is just one more. We shouldn't be more angry about Paris than about Beirut on Thursday, about the Boko Haram atrocities that happen with such sad regularity, or the multitude of others. However, it is difficult to maintain perspective when 19 people were killed in a restaurant 3 bus stops from my apartment, 100 meters from my doctor's office. That restaurant was a favorite of young people of all colors and backgrounds. Frequently when I walked by I would hear happy voices, laughing with pleasure about something. I have to ask: why anyone, but in particular why them?

[kaufman]

I don't know if this is a new bug or an old one.

When I click on an ID link in a book details page, it works correctly for amazon and google links, but brings me to a blank page for goodread links.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

I don't know if this is a new bug or an old one.

When I click on an ID link in a book details page, it works correctly for amazon and google links, but brings me to a blank page for goodread links.

Well, that shows how often the goodreads link is used.

It has never worked. From day 1 I had a typo in the prototype URL where two colons were used instead of one (http:://www.goodreads.com/ ...). On my test device tapping a goodreads link goes to google search.

Thanks for reporting it.

[kaufman]

Are you sure its been broken since the beginning. I use those links a fair amount, and I can't believe I've only ever done the google and amazon ones.

I asked for that feature, and I find it hard to believe I've never used it. Or tested it when you implemented it.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Are you sure its been broken since the beginning. I use those links a fair amount, and I can't believe I've only ever done the google and amazon ones.

I asked for that feature, and I find it hard to believe I've never used it. Or tested it when you implemented it.

According to my version control system, it has been that way since 22/2/2014, which is release V3.3.0b. The only one broken in this particular way is (was) goodreads.

As for testing: I hadn't installed the goodreads plugin before today so I never tested that one. In fact I haven't tested most of the identifier types.

FWIW: here is the complete list of clickable identifiers that CC understands, along with the prototype URLs. This list is from today so the goodreads double-colon error is fixed.

urlStrings.put("amazon", "http://amzn.com/%s");
urlStrings.put("asin", "http://amzn.com/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_fr", "http://www.amazon.fr/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_de", "http://www.amazon.de/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_uk", "http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_it", "http://www.amazon.it/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_jp", "http://www.amazon.jp/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_es", "http://www.amazon.es/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("amazon_br", "http://www.amazon.com.br/dp/%s");
urlStrings.put("goodreads", "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/%s");
urlStrings.put("isbn", "http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/%s");
urlStrings.put("doi", "http://dx.doi.org/%s");
urlStrings.put("arxiv", "http://arxiv.org/abs/%s");
urlStrings.put("oclc", "http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/%s");
urlStrings.put("google", "http://books.google.com/books?id=%s");
urlStrings.put("barnesnoble", "http://www.barnesandnoble.com/%s");

[kaufman]

I have an issue with the beta.

My sort for ungrouped is date (calibre) . If I exit the program with some other grouping applied and some other sort and then restart the program, it shows the u grouped list with the old sort.

I think it should either save both the sort and the grouping, or neither.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

I have an issue with the beta.

FWIW: V4.2.10.3 was released to production on 19/November.

My sort for ungrouped is date (calibre) . If I exit the program with some other grouping applied and some other sort and then restart the program, it shows the u grouped list with the old sort.

I think it should either save both the sort and the grouping, or neither.

Turns out that CC never applied an associated sort when applying the startup group. I have fixed it.

I will probably release a new beta in the next few days.