Pushed inital version of documentation for metadata

packages/jspsych/src/modules/extensions.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 export interface JsPsychExtensionInfo {
   name: string;
+  version: string;
+  data: Record<string, any>;
 }
 
 export interface JsPsychExtension {

packages/metadata/src/VariablesMap.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ export class VariablesMap {
    */
   private variables: { [key: string]: VariableFields };
 
+  /**
+   * Flag that determines if the extension variables' default descriptions have been generated in the metadata.
+   **/
+  extensionDefaultFlag: boolean = false;
+
   /**
    *  Creates the VariablesMap bycalling generateDefaultVariables() method to
    * generate the basic metadata common to every dataset_description.json file.
@@ -48,6 +53,37 @@ export class VariablesMap {
     this.generateDefaultVariables();
   }
 
+  generateDefaultExtensionVariables(): void {
+    if (this.extensionDefaultFlag) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const extension_type_var: VariableFields = {
+      "@type": "PropertyValue",
+      name: "extension_type",
+      description: {
+        default: "unknown",
+        jsPsych: "The name(s) of the extension(s) used in the trial.",
+      },
+      value: "string",
+    };
+    this.setVariable(extension_type_var);
+
+    const extension_version_var: VariableFields = {
+      "@type": "PropertyValue",
+      name: "extension_version",
+      description: {
+        default: "unknown",
+        jsPsych: "The version(s) of the extension(s) used in the trial.",
+      },
+      value: "numeric",
+    };
+
+    this.setVariable(extension_version_var);
+
+    this.extensionDefaultFlag = true;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Generates the default variables shared between every JsPsych experiment and fills in
    * with default descriptions according to JsPsych documentation.
@@ -111,7 +147,12 @@ export class VariablesMap {
         variable["description"] = description[key];
       } else if (numKeys == 2) {
         delete description["default"]; // deletes default
-
+        // Delete the property if its value is "unknown"
+        for (const descKey in description as object) {
+          if (description[descKey] === "unknown") {
+            delete description[descKey];
+          }
+        }
         if (Object.keys(description).length == 1) {
           // error checking that it reduced to one key
           const key = Object.keys(description)[0];
@@ -120,6 +161,12 @@ export class VariablesMap {
       } else if (numKeys > 2) {
         // deletes default
         delete description["default"];
+        // Delete the property if its value is "unknown"
+        for (const descKey in description as object) {
+          if (description[descKey] === "unknown") {
+            delete description[descKey];
+          }
+        }
       }
 
       var_list.push(variable);

packages/metadata/src/index.ts

@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ export default class JsPsychMetadata {
     return res;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Generates the default descriptions for extension_type and extension_version in metadata. Should be called after
+   * default metadata is generated, and only should be called once.
+   **/
+  generateDefaultExtensionVariables(): void {
+    this.variables.generateDefaultExtensionVariables();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Method that creates an author. This method can also be used to overwrite existing authors
    * with the same name in order to update fields.
@@ -294,7 +302,15 @@ export default class JsPsychMetadata {
     const extensionType = observation["extension_type"]; // fix for non-list (single item extension)
     const extensionVersion = observation["extension_version"];
 
-    const ignored_fields = new Set(["trial_type", "trial_index", "time_elapsed"]);
+    if (extensionType) this.generateDefaultExtensionVariables(); // After first call, generation is stopped.
+
+    const ignored_fields = new Set([
+      "trial_type",
+      "trial_index",
+      "time_elapsed",
+      "extenstion_type",
+      "extension_version",
+    ]);
 
     for (const variable in observation) {
       const value = observation[variable];
@@ -304,11 +320,13 @@ export default class JsPsychMetadata {
       if (ignored_fields.has(variable)) this.updateFields(variable, value, typeof value);
       else {
         await this.generateMetadata(variable, value, pluginType, version);
-        extensionType
+        if (extensionType) {
-          ? extensionType.forEach((ext, index) =>
+          await Promise.all(
-              this.generateMetadata(variable, value, ext, extensionVersion[index], true)
+            extensionType.map((ext, index) =>
-            ) // verify
+              this.generateMetadata(variable, value, ext, extensionVersion[index])
-          : console.log("No extensionType");
+            )
+          );
+        }
       }
     }
   }