"type-bind" multiple value separator

[David P. Steelman]

Hi,

The "<type-bind>" field used by the "submissions-forms.xml" file takes a comma separated list of publication types. However, some of the publication types (defined in the "common_types" value-pairs list) themselves contain commas (for example "Image, 3-D" and "Recording, acoustical").

Is there a way to "escape" the comma used by these types so that they can be used in a "type-bind" field?

Thanks,

David

[Agustín Alfieri]

Hi, 

Not exactly what you asked for but my solution to this was to assign different values to the  displayed-value and the stored-value of the pair. For example:

<pair>
       <displayed-value>Image, 3-D</displayed-value>
       <stored-value>image-3-D</stored-value
</pair>

This way you can show the appropriate name for the type and workaround the issue of the comma

Hope it helps,

Agustín.

[David P. Steelman]

Agustin,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Given that several of the stock DSpace types include a comma, I'm wondering if a "<type-bind-separator>" element should be added that can be used to specify a different multi-value separator (such as a colon instead of a comma). I can create an issue and submit a pull request, if this is something that would be acceptable.

Curiously, in the relevant source code (https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/536e8cb347dcf12a0237c15b0b4cca4649295621/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/DCInput.java#L221-L228) there is the following comment:

// parsing of the <type-bind> element (using the colon as split separator)

but I do not see any evidence that anything other than a comma was ever used (at least back to DSpace 3.0).

Thanks,

David

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