Using LoadHandler hook

[pvadrevu]

Hi all,
I am trying to write a small plugin that would enable the reviewers to undo their decision to reject a previous article review offer. To do this I would like to add a new "undo decision" links on the archived submissions that a reviewer gets to see. As I found no particular hooks that I can use for this, I wanted to use the loadhandler hook to intercept all calls to journal/reviewer/index

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HookRegistry::register ('LoadHandler', array(&$this, 'handleRequest'));   

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function handleRequest($hookName, $args) {
      $page =& $args[0];
      $op =& $args[1];
      $sourceFile =& $args[2];

      if ($page === 'reviewer' && $op === 'index') {
         define('HANDLER_CLASS', 'ExampleHandler');   
         $sourceFile = $this->getPluginPath() . '/' . 'ExampleHandler.inc.php';      
      }
   }   


The ExampleHandler class for now is just an empty subclass of ReviewerHandler:

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import('classes.reviewer.ReviewerHandler');
class ExampleHandler extends ReviewerHandler {
   function ExampleHandler() {
      parent::ReviewerHandler();
   }
}


The callback function is being invoked but all I get is this error:

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'classes/reviewer/ReviewerHandler.inc.php' (include_path='.:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/classes:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/pages:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/classes:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/pages:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/lib/adodb:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/lib/phputf8:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/lib/pqp/classes:/data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/lib/smarty:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /data/www/press/ojs/htdocs/lib/pkp/includes/functions.inc.php on line 30

Where am I going wrong? Can someone please help me with this.

Thanks,
Phani

[pvadrevu]

Sorry, I just made a silly mistake in my import path. Should have been pages.reviewer...

This is my first time developing a plugin. So, can someone confirm if my approach is correct or if I should be using a different hook.

Thank you,
Phani

[mcrider]

Hi Phani,

That looks alright -- though I think you can just call (from your handleRequest() method) $this->import('ExampleHandler'); before you define the HANDLER_CLASS. Take a look at e.g. plugins/generic/counter/ for an example.

Cheers,
Matt