Started implementing freecite backend.

app/controllers/citations_controller.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
+require 'bibmix'
+
 class CitationsController < ApplicationController
+
+	PARSER_FREECITE = 'freecite'
+	PARSER_PARSCIT = 'parscit'
+	DEFAULT_PARSER = PARSER_PARSCIT
+
   # GET /citations
   # GET /citations.xml
   def index
@@ -83,4 +90,35 @@ def destroy
       format.xml  { head :ok }
     end
   end
+
+  def parse
+  	citation = params[:citation]
+  	parser = params.fetch('parser', DEFAULT_PARSER)
+
+		if citation
+
+			# First parse the citation with parscit.
+			if parser == PARSER_PARSCIT
+				hash = Reference.create_with_parscit(citation).to_hash
+			elsif parser == PARSER_FREECITE
+				hash = Reference.create_with_freecite(citation).to_hash
+			end
+
+			# Convert it to a Bibmix::Record so that it can be merged with data
+			# from bibsonomy.
+			record = Bibmix::Record.from_hash(hash)
+
+
+			# Execute the mixing process.
+	  	enhanced_record = Bibmix::Bibsonomy::MixingProcess.new(record).execute
+		end
+
+		respond_to do |format|
+      format.json { 
+  			render :json => {
+  				:parsed => record,
+  				:enhanced => enhanced_record
+  			}
+  		}
+  end
 end

app/controllers/parscit_controller.rb

@@ -34,43 +34,6 @@ def show
   		}
     end
  end
-
-private
-	def parse_with_parscit(str)
-		if str.nil? || str.eql?("")
-      raise 'Citation string is nil or empty'
-    end
-
-    #parscit_dir = "/home/bas/Documents/parscit-100401"
-    parscit_dir = "/Users/bas/Documents/parscit-100401"
-    parscit_cmd = "#{parscit_dir}/bin/parseRefStrings.pl"
-
-    # Convert the passed string to UTF-8, this prevents possible
-    # seg faults in parseRefStrings.pl.
-    ic = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
-    valid_string = ic.iconv(str << ' ')[0..-2]
-
-    # The ParsCit executable only reads from file so create a
-    # temporary file and fill it with the citation string.
-    tmp = Tempfile.new("parscit_parser_tmp")
-    tmp.binmode
-    tmp.puts(valid_string)
-    tmp.close()
-
-    xml = `perl "#{parscit_cmd}" "#{tmp.path()}"`    
-    hsh = Hash.from_xml(xml)
-
-    citation = hsh['algorithm']['citationList']['citation']
-
-    tmp.unlink
-
-    if citation.is_a?(Hash)
-      citation
-    elsif citation.is_a?(Array) && citation.length
-      citation[0]
-    else
-      raise "Invalid citation datatype or no citations found (ln=#{citation.length})"
-    end 
-	end
+
 
 end

public/javascripts/evaluation/record_comparison_table.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ var RecordComparisonTable = Class.create(AbstractComparisonTable, {
 	'loadComparisonData': function(item)
 	{
 		item = item || this.item;
-		new Ajax.Request('/parscit/show', 
+		new Ajax.Request('/citations/parse_with_parscit', 
 			{	
 				method: 'post',
 				parameters: {