Bug 11728 – add support for output formatting for webrequest plugin

Bug 11728 - add support for output formatting for webrequest plugin


Summary:	add support for output formatting for webrequest plugin

Status:	NEW

Product:	mbarcode
Component:	Plugins-General
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	general

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Reported:	2010-12-26 20:48 UTC by Michel Rouwenhorst
Modified:	2011-02-15 11:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michel Rouwenhorst (reporter) 2010-12-26 20:48:49 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION: 
mbarcode-plugin-webrequest 0.1.15-3

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
When adding or modifying a searchprovider, the only option is to place the
entire barcode that was detected into a URL. I came across a 1D barcode that
was returned with a leading zero, and the website I tried searching it on
(discogs.com) lists it without the leading zero. (since the zero is not
actually printed on the record)
I tried with: Nightwish - End of an era (727361167912) on
http://www.discogs.com/search?q=727361167912&btn=&type=all


I would welcome the possibility to for more output formatting, preferably
seperately configurable for each searchprovider, although looking at the
current code i realise that that will be an elaborate task.
For me, currently just being able to strip leading zero's is enough.

Comment 1 Simon Pickering maemo.org

2011-02-15 11:15:21 UTC

Sorry for the slow response.

Interesting idea. As you say this will take some work. Patches welcome!

Otherwise I'll add it to the ToDo list. I suppose one option would be to add a
RegEx in place of the %s and run the string through the RegEx parser before the
browser is called. I'll have a look at this.

If you need something sooner, you could write a simply Python plugin to do the
string manipulation and open this specific website quire easily.