setCollection with javascript api doesn't work

[Jason Friedman]

I posted this originally to the zotero forums, but Dan Stillman suggest I post here instead:

Hi,

I have a perl script that used to work to export (from the command line) either the whole library or a single collection as a bibtex file. While the whole library still works, selecting a single collection does not.

In particular, I run something like this to get just the 3rd collection:

var collections = Zotero.getCollections();

var collection = collections[2];

translatorObj.setCollection(collection,1);

but when I run the translator, it still returns the whole library. This is the whole code (I am testing it using MozRepl):

var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);

file.initWithPath('/tmp/tmpfile.txt');

var zotero = Components.classes['@zotero.org/Zotero;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsISupports).wrappedJSObject;

var translatorObj = new Zotero.Translate.Export;

var collections = Zotero.getCollections();

var collection = collections[2];

translatorObj.setCollection(collection,1);

translatorObj.setLocation(file);

translatorObj.setTranslator('9cb70025-a888-4a29-a210-93ec52da40d4');

translatorObj.setLibraryID(null);

translatorObj.translate();

Thanks,

Jason

[Dan Stillman]

What Zotero version?

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[Jason Friedman]

Version 4.0.29.11 standalone, running on OSX 10.11.6

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[Dan Stillman]

You're calling setLibraryID(), which clears the collection selection and
tells it to export that library. Collections exist in libraries, so the
library is implicit when you use setCollection(). Remove the
setLibraryID() call and you should get what you expect.

- Dan

[Jason Friedman]

Thanks - that fixed it.

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