[EP-tech] Re: Updating a compound multiple field

[George Mamalakis]

Hi Martin,

I'm not sure I've tested it (I've used an API script to populate 
compound fields (multilang fields in particular) where values were 
stored using set_value() in the way you're mentioning), but if it 
doesn't do so then it's API behaviour would be counter to the other 
fields' behaviour.

My script was something like that:

use Data::Dumper;
my $ep = EPrints->new();
my $repo = $ep->repository( "myrepo" );
my $ds = $repo->dataset("archive");
my $list = $ds->search;
my $n = $list->count();
my @docs = $list->slice(0, $n);


foreach $d (@docs)
{
     if ($d->is_set('ml_title'))
     {
         print "item with id " . $d->id . " has ml_title set\n";
     } else {
         if ($d->is_set('title'))
         {
#            print "Updating ml_title for eprint.id = " . $d->id . "\n";
             my $tit = $d->get_value('title');
             my @ml_tit = [ {lang=>'en', text=>$tit}, {lang=>'el', 
text=>$tit} ];
         #    print Dumper(@ml_tit);
             $d->set_value('ml_title', @ml_tit);
             $d->commit();
         }
     }
}

I don't know, this may help you test your case...

On 02/10/2015 05:37 μμ, martin.braendle at id.uzh.ch wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just a short question: Am I assuming correctly if I update a compound 
> multiple field with
>
> $dataobj->set_value( array of hashes )
>
> that the new values overwrite the existing ones and are not appended 
> to the existing values?
>
> E.g. if I want to keep the existing values, I need to read them out 
> first and create a merged array with the new values that I have to 
> write back?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Dr. Martin Brändle
> Zentrale Informatik
> Universität Zürich
> Stampfenbachstr. 73
> CH-8006 Zürich
>
>
> *** Options: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech
> *** Archive: http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki: http://wiki.eprints.org/
> *** EPrints developers Forum: http://forum.eprints.org/


-- 
George Mamalakis

IT and Security Officer,
Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
MSc (Imperial College of London)

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

phone number : +30 (2310) 994379


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/eprints-tech/attachments/20151002/a3db12e4/attachment.html