Re: [PATCH] Allow external libraries (org-roam) to supply org-id locations

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"Rick Lupton" <mail@ricklupton.name> writes:

> The point is that I was thinking org-roam should advise/modify/hook the specific function `org-id-find' [to find ids in its database] but NOT the more general `(org-link-get-parameter "id" :follow)' [because `org-id-open' has a lot of extra logic for search-strings, backwards compatibility, where to open the new location, which it would not be reasonable to duplicate].
>
> Is there a way to do this using the approach you are suggesting?

No. Then, your patch makes sense.

> +(ert-deftest test-org-link/org-id-find ()
> +  "Test `org-id-find' specifications."
> +  (should
> +   (equal '("id.org" . 12)
> +          (org-test-with-temp-text ""
> +            (add-hook 'org-id-find-functions (lambda (id _markerp) (cons (concat id ".org") 12)) nil t)
> +            (org-id-find "id")))))

... although this test does not look right. You are modifying the hook
by side effect, retaining the value for all other tests.

Please remove the hook after calling ~org-id-find~ via ~unwind-protect~.

Also, before we merge your patch, may I know if you discussed this
change with org-roam developers? If they do not want to use the proposed
hook, there is no reason to add it to Org mode.

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