Question about plugins

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi,

On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Jose Carlos Pereira wrote:
> I also started to use a  online  book  site  (commenting,  rating  etc),
> http://www.goodreads.com
>
> I would like to sync my tellico book list with the online collection.
>
> I'm using a plugin to submit the info of an individual book (via "update
> entry") the goodreads site.
>
> Is there:
>         + Any documentation on tellico plugins?
>           (namely, how do I send back info from the plugin to tellico?)

The only way the plugins work right now is to provide the results of a 
search in a format that Tellico can read, either it's own XML format, 
bibtex, MODS, or a few other text formats. 

Basically, it's just a script that gets passed a title, person, isbn, etc. 
on the command-line, runs the search, and returns the result on stdout.

>         + Any simple way of passing the entire book  collection  to  the
>           external plugin (batch sync instead of single book)?

Select all the books, and update them. Tellico isn't threaded, and it will 
run the script one at a time, so it's terribly inefficient, though.

Robby