def dump(self, entry: Entry) -> str:
# pdoc will inherit the docstring from the base class
# noqa: D102
Event.PreBibtexDump.fire(entry)
database = bibtexparser.bibdatabase.BibDatabase()
stringified_entry = entry.stringify()
stringified_entry["ID"] = stringified_entry.pop("label")
if "month" in stringified_entry.keys():
# convert month to bibtexexpression
stringified_entry[
"month"] = bibtexparser.bibtexexpression.BibDataStringExpression(
[
bibtexparser.bibdatabase.BibDataString(
database, stringified_entry["month"])
])
database.entries = [stringified_entry]
LOGGER.debug("Converting entry %s to BibTex format.", entry.label)
writer = bibtexparser.bwriter.BibTexWriter()
writer.common_strings = True
string: str = writer.write(database)
string = Event.PostBibtexDump.fire(string) or string
return string
def test_stringify() -> None:
"""Test the `cobib.database.Entry.stringify` method."""
entry = Entry(
"dummy",
{
"file": ["/tmp/a.txt", "/tmp/b.txt"],
"month": 8,
"tags": ["tag1", "tag2"],
},
)
expected = {
"label": "dummy",
"file": "/tmp/a.txt, /tmp/b.txt",
"month": "aug",
"tags": "tag1, tag2",
}
assert entry.stringify() == expected
