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Merge lp://staging/~grahamrow/zim/zim-mendeley into lp://staging/~jaap.karssenberg/zim/pyzim

  1. zim-mendeley
  2. Merge into pyzim
Proposed by Graham Rowlands
Status: Needs review
Proposed branch: lp://staging/~grahamrow/zim/zim-mendeley
Merge into: lp://staging/~jaap.karssenberg/zim/pyzim
Diff against target: 834 lines (+796/-0)
6 files modified
HACKING/notebook.zim (+1/-0)
data/manual/Plugins.txt (+1/-0)
data/manual/Plugins/Mendeley_Citations.txt (+17/-0)
zim/inc/MendeleyDesktopAPI.py (+357/-0)
zim/inc/MendeleyHttpClient.py (+228/-0)
zim/plugins/mendeley.py (+192/-0)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp://staging/~grahamrow/zim/zim-mendeley
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Jaap Karssenberg Pending
Review via email: mp+224053@code.staging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Hi Jaap, I've been meaning to tie up some loose ends and get this code into the main branch. Mendeley, if you recall, is a citation management program that is widely used in academic communities. A few colleagues and I have been using this plugin with good results over the past several months.

General Functionality and comments:
- Inserts formatted citations (as simple Zim "link" objects) with links to either a users own Mendeley library (via the local mendeley:// protocol) or to a more universal DOI redirect (via http://dx.doi.org).
- Creates a bibliography in the used-specified format by scraping the current page for mendeley:// or dx.doi.org links and polling the Mendeley application for a complete formatted bibliography.
- The backend is a slightly modified version of the code used in Mendeley's own OpenOffice plugin (https://github.com/Mendeley/openoffice-plugin). The changes don't affect the general functionality of that code, and mainly involve commenting extraneous sections and changing of the exact return values for convenience. Thus I've opted to keep this in the zim/inc directory for now.
- Since the plugin communicates with the Mendeley application through a minimal web socket, it requires Mendeley to be open. Perhaps I can later implement a feature to have the program be launched automatically.

Preferences include:
1. Whether to insert dx.doi.org or mendeley:// links
2. The citation format
3. The bibliography format

Known limitations:
1. Unit test still lacking, but since the plugin only inserts links and text and is based of the generic plugin class I think that is safe for now. I'll come up with something soon!

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lp://staging/~grahamrow/zim/zim-mendeley updated
684. By Graham Rowlands

Pulled in Zim 0.61 code.

Unmerged revisions

684. By Graham Rowlands

Pulled in Zim 0.61 code.

683. By Graham Rowlands

Pulled latest lp:zim and relocated Mendeley API code back to inc/ since it is vanilla code from Mendeley. This fixed an issue where the plugin manager thought the plugins/mendeleyAPI directory was itself a plugin, causing an error message to be generated when closing the preferences dialog

682. By Graham Rowlands

Merged with main zim branch

681. By Graham Rowlands

Merged into pyzim-refactor. A bit late now...

680. By Graham Rowlands

Relocated Mendeley API code to plugins/mendeleyAPI. Added bibliography capability.

679. By Graham Rowlands

Updated reg. exps. for converting bib html to zim formatting.

678. By Graham Rowlands

Rebased to pyzim-refactor. Added rudimentary bibliography support.

677. By Graham Rowlands

Reverted inavertent changes to notebook.zim and updated documentation.

676. By Graham Rowlands

Initial commit of plugin

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