Support Zotero 7

[diegodlh]

Support Zotero 7. Beta has been released already: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/105094/announcing-the-zotero-7-beta. For details on what changes need to be made, see https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/zotero_7_for_developers

Work tracker

Progress:

• [x] initial build #267
• [x] initial overlay #267
• [x] setup new branch and make dev instructions
• [x] show citations overlay #267
  • [x] Get CSS styling to work
  • [x] Get PIDs to be selectable text
• [x] item pane columns #267
• [x] fix localisation #275
  • [ ] #288
  • [ ] #289
• [x] add right click menu
• [x] add translators (need to copy them into the addon as part of the build process) #270
• [x] fix CitationEditor UI #273
• [x] fix UI for pushing to wikidata (popup menus)
  • Need to change line 16 in node_modules/wikibase-edit/lib/request/fetch.js to const controller = new window.AbortController() to be able to add new citations on wikidata - otherwise AbortController is undefined... (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/47bae1aef133dd392a3fca185fc0249d654cd728)
• [x] fix local citations network #284
• [x] fix settings menu UI #281
• [x] fix importing citations by identifier #277
• [x] fix importing citations by text #279
• [x] fix exporting citations #280
• [x] fix progress messages #276
• [x] fix preferences
• [x] make sure auto updating works when transitioning from Zotero 6 to 7 (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/4fa3123240c9de94c829d1763438452991a1f866)
  • v0.5.5 install.rdf points to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/master/update.rdf
  • this should be updated in the JSON format to point to v0.5.5 for Zotero 6, and the latest version (or v1.0.0) for Zotero 7

Building and running the Zotero 7 version

See build instructions here.

Note: the first time you run the plugin you might need to enable the Cita plugin under Tools -> Plugins then, close Zotero, then run npm run start again

The entrypoint to the addon's code is in src/hooks.ts

Bugs

Zotero Pane:

• [x] citations don't update when updating the sort order, need to reselect the current item (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/07943cfdaf5b241c2f972635031f1ef943264b36)
• [x] sometimes when editing the PID row, the text gets erased automatically (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/5a88d50b1ea5d0ca9701c901bd54f2fdd37633ff)
• [x] Editing PID rows doesn't get saved when the the input loses focus / the item changes. It works in the citation editor though (because of the Save button)
  • I think this is because React mistakenly thinks it's operating in IE8 when rendering the citations box, but not in the citations editor (https://github.com/capricorn86/happy-dom/issues/534) (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/f1792e787db2d97a7544af48d118a517e6804f2c)
  • This was also useful as inspiration for the fix https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61371194/react-trying-to-attachevents-under-jsdom#61371195
• [x] citation pane heading doesn't show up - fixed in 7033ea2

Citation Editor:

• [x] PID rows aren't editable - they get erased back to the default value whenever typing in them (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/5a88d50b1ea5d0ca9701c901bd54f2fdd37633ff)
• [x] can't use the PID row fetch functions as they can't access the main Zotero object #283
• [x] can't open the author context menu "..." for a similar reason - win.goUpdateGlobalEditMenuItems is not a function
• [ ] can't open the title/publication context menus "..." - get error this.delayConnectedCallback is not a function

Identifier Importer / Citations importer:

• [x] CSS isn't reactive to resizing the window height (https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/c75ecc522aa1e022c617db0ebad56ac8d61a8597)

Questions

• how do we use Zotero components in react? We can follow this approach if we have access to the global window object, but I tried passing this into the CitationsBox and it didn't work.

[llity]

Thanks for the hard work. Could you release a the beta version?

[diegodlh]

Hi @llity! Thank you so much for your message. We are currently working on the final details and we plant release a beta version in around one or two weeks :)

[Dominic-DallOsto]

There's a first beta release here. I also tested the automatic release tools which seemed to work out nicely.

There are a couple of remaining issues with translations and UI, but otherwise everything should be functioning so let us know if you encounter any issues!