[referencer] A question about document types and document.get_field()

[Mads Chr. Olesen]

man, 19 12 2011 kl. 18:03 -0500, skrev Christopher Belanger:
> So I've been working on a plugin to export plaintext citations from
> Referencer to the clipboard.  It's pretty simple, but if I finish it
> I'll gladly share it.

Please do :-)

I assume you're writing the plugin in Python?

> However, I'm having problems with document.get_field().  In order to
> get
> the bibliographic information, the plugin needs to get a bunch of
> fields.  The problem is that if it tries to get a field that doesn't
> exist, rather than just returning a null value for that field, it
> throws
> an exception and the plugin doesn't return anything at all. 

I'm not intimately familiar with this part, but in Python you can catch
exceptions as in:

try:
	title = doc.get_field("title")
except:
	title = ""

-- 
Mads Chr. Olesen <mads at mchro.dk>