"Normal" template inside GPM template

[ownedbycats]

I found the space and removed it. Still getting the error.

I asked in the Kobo Touch Extended thread whether it could be a bug in the driver.

[chaley]

Depending on how much time you are willing to spend now that you have a composite column "solution" ...

It looks like parsing the template passed by the kobo driver is failing, perhaps because of line endings or character set issues. One possible solution is to simplify that template. You can do that by making the original template into a "stored template" then calling that template from one in the kobo driver.

Steps:
1) Make a stored template (preferences / Stored templates) containing

program:
	if field('#readorder') then
		 template('Reading List: {#readorder} #{#readorder_index:0>2s}')
	else
		if field('#fanficcat') then
			template('{#fanficcat}')
		fi
	fi

Name it whatever you want, for example subtitle.

2) Change the template in the driver to

program: subtitle()

[chaley]

Also, the template can be rewritten as

program:
	if field('#readorder') then
		 template('Reading List: {#readorder} #{#readorder_index:0>2s}')
	elif field('#fanficcat') then
		template('{#fanficcat}')	
	fi

I don't know if that will help.

[ownedbycats]

I got it fixed. It was user error of a sort.

The template was valid. I made a mistake (forgot a fi or misplaced it or something) and fixed it, but the driver didn't overwrite the errored subtitle with the blank one.

I deleted the template to force the driver to delete all the subtitles, put the template back, and it worked.

Sorry.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I got it fixed. It was user error of a sort.

The template was valid. I made a mistake (forgot a fi or misplaced it or something) and fixed it, but the driver didn't overwrite the errored subtitle with the blank one.

I deleted the template to force the driver to delete all the subtitles, put the template back, and it worked.

Sorry.

Whew. Thanks for telling me. I was worried that something extremely basic was broken.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by chaley

It looks like parsing the template passed by the kobo driver is failing, perhaps because of line endings or character set issues. One possible solution is to simplify that template. You can do that by making the original template into a "stored template" then calling that template from one in the kobo driver.

For the record, the driver uses the subtitle template with:

                    pb = [(self.subtitle_template, 'subtitle')]
                    book.template_to_attribute(book, pb)
                    new_subtitle = book.subtitle

That is devices/kobo/driver.py line 3243. And the KoboTouchExtended driver subclasses the KoboTouch driver and doesn't override anything related to this.

The "book" is basically a Metadata object with some Kobo specific attributes. It will be the Book defined in from devices/kobo/books.py.

@ownedbycats: The subtitle should have been updated after fixing the template. It has been when I have used it. And I think that was one of my tests when I did this. I don't use the subtitle myself, but, I'll test it sometime soon.