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
• [x] #292
• [x] #293

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 (17ee82c)
• [ ] 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)

Dialogs:

• [x] #290

Wikidata:

• [ ] #291

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.
• [x] https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/47bae1aef133dd392a3fca185fc0249d654cd728#commitcomment-146460819
• [x] https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/f1792e787db2d97a7544af48d118a517e6804f2c#r146509552
• [x] https://github.com/diegodlh/zotero-cita/commit/4fa3123240c9de94c829d1763438452991a1f866#commitcomment-146528656

New release procedure

• see #296

Final steps

• Before merging the zotero7 branch into master, @diegodlh will review changes in static/chrome/locale/ to make sure they will be ok with Translatewiki
• Announce the new release supporting Zotero 7:
  • Wikidata
  • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Zotero/Cita
  • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls ?
  • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next
  • Zotero forum
  • ...

[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!

[diegodlh]

Great job, @Dominic-DallOsto! I've reviewed your latest commits and overall it looks great.

I've added some comments to some commits, reported a few bugs and created a discussion about the new release procedure. Everything is linked from the main comment, above.

Looks like we will finally have a stable release for Zotero 7 very soon :)

[Dominic-DallOsto]

I just modified the release procedure so that now beta releases will automatically update to the latest beta release too.

This works because update.json and update-beta.json are now both stored in a release called "update".

Otherwise I fixed a couple of UI issues that were pointed out so things should be smoother now.

[Dominic-DallOsto]

Checkout the latest release v1.0.0-beta.10 with a lot of great changes thanks to @thebluepotato

Check #300 for more details, but in addition to the new UI styling to better fit with Zotero 7, it lets you download citation lists from crossref, open alex, and semantic scholar.