IRC log for #koha, 2011-12-31

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04:06 Oak kia ora #koha
04:41 bag hi Oak
04:41 Oak hello bag :o)
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05:22 tcohen albatrosssss
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05:28 bag NateC?
05:28 wahanui I LIKE SPACE AND MY WIFE
05:28 bag love it :D
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08:05 rangi @wunder nzwn
08:05 huginn rangi: Error: timed out
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08:06 cait @wunder Reutlingen
08:06 huginn cait: Error: timed out
08:06 Oak Guten Morgen cait :o)
08:07 cait Salaam Oak :)
08:07 Oak 31st December huh
08:08 cait correct
08:08 Oak weird
08:08 cait why?
08:08 Oak not sure
08:09 cait feeling not ready for the new year?
08:10 Oak does not matter. 2012 won't wait.
08:10 cait true :)
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09:21 Oak me go now.
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11:19 cait happy new year all :)
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11:25 magnuse happy 2012 to new zealand!
11:54 magnuse have fun, #koha!
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12:25 jcamins_away is now known as jcamins
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14:50 jcamins Good morning, cait.
14:50 cait hi jcamins
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15:46 druthb o/
15:49 jcamins \o
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16:38 jcamins kmkale: happy new year!
16:48 jcamins searching faq?
16:48 wahanui i heard searching faq was at http://koha-community.org/docu[…]on/faq/searching/
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17:49 cait hi #koha
17:49 jcamins Hi #cait. Made it home to Konstanz?
17:49 cait yes :)
17:49 cait feels good to be home again
18:56 * jcamins wonders if chanting "rangi" over and over will cause him to appear.
18:56 jcamins Rangi rangi rangi.
18:56 * jcamins waits.
18:57 rangi yup
18:57 jcamins All right!
18:57 jcamins rangi++
18:57 rangi makes the laptop beep
18:57 * cait will memorize that trick
18:58 jcamins rangi: I'm trying to figure out how to do plugin-style interfaces in Perl.
18:58 jcamins Any tips?
18:58 jcamins Like, where do I start?
18:58 rangi plugin style?
18:58 jcamins Specifically for the linker.
18:59 jcamins I would like the authority linker to have the option for people to implement their own linking algorithms.
18:59 rangi ah
18:59 jcamins Without messing up my beautiful code. ;)
18:59 rangi id do a base class
19:00 rangi then they can do an ISA module
19:00 jcamins Okay, but how do they get their module called?
19:00 rangi they could do it the way the label printer does it, with a syspref
19:01 jcamins Ah, that's exactly what I was thinking of
19:01 jcamins I guess I just have to figure out how that works, then. :)
19:02 jcamins Any idea what syspref that is?
19:02 rangi nope
19:03 rangi but its called by one of teh label .pl files
19:04 rangi the important thing is making a nice base class module so ppl can write ones like you can for the template toolkit ones
19:04 rangi or Koha::Cache even
19:04 rangi bug 7248
19:04 huginn Bug http://bugs.koha-community.org[…]w_bug.cgi?id=7248 enhancement, PATCH-Sent, ---, gmcharlt, NEW , Caching for services
19:05 * jcamins will use that as a model, thanks.
19:06 jcamins Yeah, I was not going to figure out what that meant.
19:07 * jcamins now sees how it works.
19:07 jcamins Very cool.
19:07 rangi :)
19:09 jcamins rangi: incidentally, all your copyright statements are wrong.
19:10 jcamins It's 2011, soon to be 2012. :P
19:10 cait even worse
19:10 cait it already is 2012
19:12 rangi heh
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19:23 jcamins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwM_AKeMCk
19:41 * rangi confesses to never having read a harry potter book, or seen more then 10 mins of any of the movies
19:43 jcamins rangi: you might not find that quite so amusing then.
19:43 rangi yep, i suspect some knowledge is needed
19:43 rangi still clever though
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19:49 * rangi wonders if Soupermanito has or ever will say anything
19:53 jcamins rangi: and apparently Harry Potter in that is replacing Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed.
19:55 jcamins rangi: so do I have to put a "use C4::Linker::Whatever" for every plugin?
19:55 jcamins Right now there will only be one, so it's easy, but that seems... wasteful.
19:56 rangi no not use
19:57 jcamins rangi: you have a use Koha::Cache::Memcached in your base class.
19:57 jcamins Am I misunderstanding what it does?
19:57 rangi yeah, thats a different thing
19:58 rangi because for that you make a Koha::Cache
19:58 rangi and pass it a type
19:58 jcamins Hrm. That's not what I should be looking at?
19:58 rangi and it creates one of those for you, its not really a plugin system, just a consistent API
19:59 rangi nope the TT plugin is better
19:59 jcamins Where would I find one of those?
20:00 rangi hmm 929
20:00 rangi or in the needs signoff queue there is one for enabling caching of TT includes
20:01 rangi Koha::Cache
20:01 rangi is how i would like Koha::Search to be
20:01 rangi so the calling programme doesnt have to actually care what is doign the search
20:02 jcamins Right.
20:02 rangi same interface for them all
20:03 jcamins So, I see how the TT plugins work, but I'm not sure how to do the back-end work to use it.
20:03 jcamins On the plus side, I now understand how Koha::Cache works. :)
20:03 rangi hehe
20:04 rangi the way the pdf stuff does it is
20:04 rangi my $module = C4::Context->preference('something');
20:04 rangi require $module;
20:04 jcamins Ooh! Found it.
20:04 bag @wunder 93109
20:04 jcamins I was searching for "label."
20:04 huginn bag: The current temperature in K6LCM - Westside / Mesa, Santa Barbara, California is 17.4�C (12:03 PM PST on December 31, 2011). Conditions: Scattered Clouds. Humidity: 76%. Dew Point: 13.0�C. Pressure: 29.96 in 1014.4 hPa (Steady).
20:04 rangi but it needs to do some sanity chekcing
20:06 jcamins Right.
20:06 rangi so it cant just include anything
20:06 jcamins Yeah...
20:07 jcamins "Registering" plugins is harder in Perl than it was in C++, isn't it?
20:07 rangi yep
20:07 jcamins Phooey.
20:08 jcamins Idea: how about using the technique that Koha::Cache does, so that it has to be within the namespace C4::Linker?
20:08 rangi you could be cool
20:08 rangi and do
20:08 rangi Koha::Plugin
20:09 jcamins Follow-up question: why do I need a "use whatever" at all, if I'm mandating a specific interface for the sub-module?
20:09 jcamins Imagine you're talking to someone who learned OO on C++.
20:10 rangi well you never call Koha::Cache::Memcached
20:10 jcamins Right.
20:10 rangi you always call my $cache = Koha::Cache->new()
20:10 jcamins Yeah, that's my understanding.
20:10 rangi so it needs to have Koha::Cache::Memcached in it
20:10 rangi via the use
20:10 jcamins Ah.
20:11 rangi the way TT plugins do it
20:11 rangi is nicer for your situation
20:11 rangi https://metacpan.org/module/Template::Plugin
20:11 rangi if we made a Koha::Plugin
20:11 jcamins Indeed, that's exactly the idea I was going for, but I'm limited by the fact that I only know how to write plugins and not plugin hosts for TT. ;)
20:12 rangi https://metacpan.org/source/AB[…]emplate/Plugin.pm
20:12 rangi not so bad
20:13 rangi but yeah probably beyond the scope
20:13 jcamins Easy for you to say!
20:13 jcamins :P
20:13 rangi id make
20:13 rangi Koha::Linker
20:13 rangi the
20:13 rangi Koha::Linker::Fish
20:13 cait eew
20:13 cait Koha::Linker::chocolate?
20:14 rangi use base qw( Koha::Linker );
20:14 rangi and the .pl would call Koha::Linker::Fish
20:14 jcamins Hm.
20:14 jcamins And when someone wants to add an additional plugin, let them do the marshalling work?
20:15 rangi well if you make the .pl use the syspref
20:15 rangi they make a new module
20:15 rangi and add that as an option to the syspref
20:15 jcamins Gotcha.
20:15 rangi so the .pl doesnt need to change
20:23 jcamins Okay... are you *sure* that the handling of the syspref can't be squished into C4::Linker somehow?
20:24 jcamins And, unrelated to that, is there a reason why __END__ has a ton of whitespace after it?
20:24 rangi it probably could but its pretty unclean
20:25 jcamins Alas.
20:28 rangi that whitespace can die, no need for it
20:28 jcamins Woohoo!
20:40 jcamins Oh wise rangi: is there a correct way to replace a field in MARC?
20:40 rangi Hehe
20:41 rangi hmm check man MARC::Field
20:41 * jcamins has decided to invoke you in this fashion from now on, in the hopes that you won't get irritated by my ceaseless questions and kickban me. ;)
20:41 rangi I think there is a replace method
20:41 jcamins Ah, yeah.
20:41 jcamins I found it.
20:41 jcamins I was looking in MARC::Record.
20:41 rangi *nod*
20:41 jcamins I should've been looking at MARC::Field.
20:41 rangi I do that
20:43 jcamins Hm. I'm missing something here. I need to store parameters associated with an object.
20:44 rangi Class::Accessor :)
20:45 rangi pass in some params in ur new call, set them in your object (its just a hashref u bless)
20:45 rangi C4::Template might help show u
20:46 jcamins Ah, yeah, that's easier to follow than Koha::Cache.
20:47 kmkale happy new year jcamins rangi and #koha
20:49 rangi thannks kmkale, u too
20:52 * jcamins weeps.
20:53 jcamins I need to use C4::Search.
20:53 jcamins C4::Search uses C4::Biblio.
20:53 jcamins The entire point is that C4::Biblio should call my code.
20:54 jcamins Alternatively, I could use C4::AuthoritiesMarc, instead of C4::Search.
20:54 jcamins But that also requires C4::Biblio.
20:55 jcamins (and, no, I am not implementing Koha::Search in a sane fashion today)
21:00 rangi yeah hated when that happens
21:01 rangi hate too
21:01 * jcamins saves the feature that requires that for the end.
21:03 * jcamins considers heading flipping.
21:06 * jcamins considers the possibility that his head has flipped.
21:07 rangi heh
21:08 * cait can't follow
21:09 jcamins cait: heading flipping would be changing from an old heading to the new form.
21:09 jcamins "Flipping" is slang for "going crazy."
21:09 jcamins *to flip = to go crazy
21:09 jcamins To lose one's marbles.
21:09 jcamins To suddenly find oneself one card short of a full deck.
21:10 jcamins To...
21:10 jcamins Let this be a lesson to you all: avoid authorities.
21:10 jcamins There be dragons.
21:11 cait lol
21:11 cait thx jcamins :) jcamins++
21:15 jcamins rangi: if I do the dynamic import thing, will the thingies remain in the namespace if I call a sub?
21:15 * jcamins tries again.
21:15 jcamins The... methods.
21:16 rangi if u call them via the object yep
21:16 jcamins Excellent, thanks.
21:18 jcamins Oh bother.
21:19 jcamins How do I create the object?
21:20 Soupermanito rangi, :) i will when i have something useful to say or ask :D
21:25 jcamins Why doesn't Perl know what import means?
21:25 pastebot "jcamins" at 98.14.120.176 pasted "Help me, oh wise rangi!" (8 lines) at http://paste.koha-community.org/178
21:26 jcamins Oh, because there's no such function.
21:27 jcamins rangi: ignore that question. It was pointless.
21:27 rangi :)
21:28 jcamins Okay... now, why am I getting an undefined subroutine error?
21:30 jcamins Well.
21:30 jcamins I'll be.
21:30 jcamins It seems to have worked.
21:30 jcamins (the answer, incidentally, is that there was a syntax error in the file that was imported at run-time)
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21:46 jcamins rangi: do you have any idea how to do this properly: @unlinked_headings{keys %$results->{'unlinked'}} += values $results->{'unlinked'};
21:48 cait @wunder Konstanz
21:48 huginn cait: The current temperature in Taegerwilen, Taegerwilen, Germany is 7.1�C (10:44 PM CET on December 31, 2011). Conditions: Rain Showers. Humidity: 95%. Dew Point: 6.0�C. Windchill: 5.0�C. Pressure: 30.08 in 1018.5 hPa (Rising).
21:50 jcamins rangi: I got it.
21:50 jcamins :)
21:50 cait yay :)
21:51 cait rangi++ jcamins++
21:53 jcamins Dinner time.
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22:58 jcamins wizzyrea++ # for signing off on things.
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