def edit_metadata(paper_name):
global CONF, paper_metadata
field_name = bottle.request.forms.get('field_name')
value = bottle.request.forms.get('new_value')
# Locate the paper in question
metadata_path = utils.paper_metadata_path(paper_name, CONF)
print metadata_path
if metadata_path is None:
raise bottle.HTTPError()
# Load YAML data from the paper's metadata file
with open(metadata_path, 'r') as fp:
metadata = yaml.load(fp.read())
# If you're changing author names, make the new value a comma-delimited
# list. Otherwise, it can safely be a string
if field_name == "authors":
metadata[field_name] = [str(x).strip() for x in value.split(',')]
else:
metadata[field_name] = value
# Re-write the new metadata
with open(metadata_path, 'w') as fp:
yaml.safe_dump(metadata, fp, encoding="utf-8")
# Update the metadata cache
paper_metadata[paper_name] = metadata
return value
def command(config, paper_folder_name):
metadata_path = utils.paper_metadata_path(paper_folder_name, config)
if metadata_path is None:
return 1
with open(metadata_path, 'r') as fp:
metadata_file_contents = fp.read()
try:
metadata = yaml.load(metadata_file_contents)
except yaml.scanner.ScannerError, e:
print "Error loading metadata: %s" % (e)
return 1
def command(config, paper_name):
"""
Edits a paper's metadata with the user's configured editor
"""
paper_metadata_path = utils.paper_metadata_path(paper_name, config)
if paper_metadata_path is None:
return 1
edit_command = config.get("general", "editor") + " %s" % (
paper_metadata_path)
subproc = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(edit_command))
subproc.communicate()
