Small Change to Metadata Source plugin API

kovidgoyal · 04-25-2011, 02:18 PM

Just a heads up, if you have written a metadata source plugin, the signature for the get_book_url method has changed. It now needs to return (identifier_type, identifier_val, URL) instead of just URL.

So for example the amazon plugin now does

Code:

    def get_book_url(self, identifiers):
        asin = identifiers.get('amazon', None)
        if asin is None:
            asin = identifiers.get('asin', None)
        if asin:
            return ('amazon', asin, 'http://amzn.com/%s'%asin)

kiwidude · 04-25-2011, 03:55 PM

For the book details pane to provide hyperlink ids by the looks of it?

Very cool, I like the convenient way to jump to the Goodreads book (which you otherwise need a menu item in the Goodreads Sync plugin to do).

kovidgoyal · 04-25-2011, 03:55 PM

Yeah, that was the motivation

04-25-2011, 02:18 PM	#1
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,626 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Small Change to Metadata Source plugin API Just a heads up, if you have written a metadata source plugin, the signature for the get_book_url method has changed. It now needs to return (identifier_type, identifier_val, URL) instead of just URL. So for example the amazon plugin now does Code: def get_book_url(self, identifiers): asin = identifiers.get('amazon', None) if asin is None: asin = identifiers.get('asin', None) if asin: return ('amazon', asin, 'http://amzn.com/%s'%asin)

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04-25-2011, 03:55 PM	#2
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,735 Karma: 2208556 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	For the book details pane to provide hyperlink ids by the looks of it? Very cool, I like the convenient way to jump to the Goodreads book (which you otherwise need a menu item in the Goodreads Sync plugin to do).

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