[OJS] Dev Question: force PID-Plugins to generate programmaticcally

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Sorry for bothering you with these kinds of questions. Since the code of OJS is very large and thick, it’s quite hard to find out everything yourself, although I found out a lot. So I would appreciate every little hint a lot! I think this Forum should definitely have dev-section for this kind of stuff.

So my newest Question is: How can I force the System to generate PIDs for a new galley at the moment I insert it with
$galleyDao->insertGalley
So the very same thing, which would happen when the thing is watched the first time. In ArticleGalleyDAO I find mtehods like deleteAllPubIds, deletePubId, changePubId but nothing like “createPubIds” which I would have Expected.

Any hint for me?

(OJS 2.4.8)

BTW since I am diving deeper and deeper in this stuff, at one point I might be able to contribute to the main code and help fix some stuff or something.

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OK i found out, that

$galley->getPubId('blub');

creates the new ones… to get them all I wrote a function

    function createPubIds($galley, $article, $preview = false) {
        $pubIdPlugins =& PluginRegistry::loadCategory('pubIds', true, $article->getJournalId());
        $pubIds = array();
        foreach ($pubIdPlugins as $pubIdPlugin) {
            $pubIdType = $pubIdPlugin->getPubIdType();
            $pubIds[$pubIdType] = $pubIdPlugin->getPubId($galley, $preview);
        }
        return $pubIds;
    }

Now it works.

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Public Identifiers are created on-demand for newly published objects (if possible and depending on configuration). This is why a call to ->getPubId() creates a new public identifier (if $preview is not turned on). See for example the DOI plugin:

It is the specific PubId plugin which has the methods for generating/storing the pubid.