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Export Plugin Tutorial 2: Hello, Lists

HelloList.pm

package EPrints::Plugin::Export::Foo::HelloList;

@ISA = ("EPrints::Plugin::Export");

use strict;

sub new
{
        my ($class, %opts) = @_;

        my $self = $class->SUPER::new(%opts);

        $self->{name} = "Hello, List!";
        $self->{accept} = [ 'dataobj/eprint', 'list/eprint' ];
        $self->{visible} = "all";
        $self->{suffix} = ".txt";
        $self->{mimetype} = "text/plain; charset=utf-8";

        return $self;
}

sub output_dataobj
{
        my ($plugin, $dataobj) = @_;

        return $dataobj->get_id()."\t".$dataobj->get_value("title")."\n";
}

sub output_list
{
        my ($plugin, %opts) = @_;

        my $output = "";

        $output .= "ID\tTitle\n\n";

        foreach my $dataobj ($opts{"list"}->get_records)
        {
                $output .= $plugin->output_dataobj($dataobj, %opts);
        }

        return $output;
}

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In More Detail

Housekeeping

package EPrints::Plugin::Export::Foo::HelloList;

Constructor

Make sure you give each plugin a unique name.

        $self->{name} = "Hello, List!";

Dealing With Lists

sub output_list
{
        my ($plugin, %opts) = @_;

        my $output = "";

        $output .= "ID\tTitle\n\n";

        foreach my $dataobj ($opts{"list"}->get_records)
        {
                $output .= $plugin->output_dataobj($dataobj, %opts);
        }

        return $output;
}

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