Generating a text file as custom plugin output

Michael Graham

• December 09, 2015 17:45

I have begun working on a custom plugin that aims to do some counting of mapping results based on the contents of a SequenceAlignmentDocument and would like to output a tab separated text file as output.  Ideally this would exist as a file object within a Geneious working folder that could be exported.  Is there a native PluginDocument type I should use?  When mapping, an Assembly Report gets generated and this is more or less the sort of thing im looking to output, just without any markup or links.  

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  Richard Moir

  • December 10, 2015 19:29

  Unfortunately we don't have a built-in document type for this yet.

  The best way to implement this would be to create a new subclass of AbstractPluginDocument that stores the data with an associated exporter and/or viewer for getting the data out. However, this is a lot of work so your best bet is probably to save a csv file straight to disk outside of Geneious.

  We are working on a new document type that can be used to store, view and export text or html which would suit your needs and save you a lot of work.  I've put in a feature request and you can update your plugin to make use of the new document type when it's available.

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