Zotero API Cache with ZotPress

ikarus84

I'm using Zotero groups, Wordpress and ZotPress to show the documentation of the citation style foerster-geisteswissenschaft on the website: http://zotero.saschafoerster.de/dokumentation/

After updating the style and adding new features for "dissertations", "documents" and "articles", the style doesn't update on the website. I reinstalled ZotPress, made a fresh installation, refreshed the wordpress-cache and the browser cache, which didn't help.

I contacted the ZotPress developper, but she couldn't help. She said, it was the API Cache, which needs to be updated as well.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-updates-and-zotpress

Now I waited for some weeks, but it didn't change, even after retrying to install and get a fresh import for the documentation. That's the output now:

Sascha, Foerster: „Manuskript“ (2014).
Zoppel, Christina: „Li­nientreue und Liberalität - Die Rezeption der zeitgenössischen österreichischen Literatur im kommunisti­schen Tagebuch“ (1995).
Autorname, Vorname: „Titel“.

Thats how it should be:

Zoppel, Christina: „Li­nientreue und Liberalität - Die Rezeption der zeitgenössischen österreichischen Literatur im kommunisti­schen Tagebuch“, Magisterarbeit, Universität Wien 1995, http://www.wienbibliothek.at/dokumente/zoppel-christina.pdf (abgerufen am 30.11.2014).
Sascha, Foerster: „Manuskript“, Protokoll, Bonn 2014, http://www.saschafoerster.de.
Autorname, Vorname: „Titel“.

Thanks you for your help.

adamsmith

is the library public? (asking because we could then just check what the Zotero API is doing).

dstillman

There's not a cache, exactly, but the styles used by the API have never updated automatically. I've just made a change that should have them update twice a day. Try again now.

ikarus84

I just made the library public:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/saschafoerster.de
I tried to delete the ZotPress plugin, reinstalled and reimported everything, but it didn't help.

dstillman

As far as I can tell, the API is returning what you say it should be returning:

https://api.zotero.org/groups/265681/items?format=bib&style=foerster-geisteswissenschaft

ikarus84

I gave your response back to the ZotPress-forum. That's really weird.
Thanks for your help!
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-updates-and-zotpress?replies=5#post-6683845

jmiba

This still seems to be an issue. I get output based on a non-updated version of a style when I call a private collection via atom format, content=bib. The formatting is correct (i.e. reflecting the updated style), however, if I call the same collection via the bib format. If I call a public group in either format, everything is OK and updated. Very wierd!

jmiba

I must correct myself: The problem is not public or private collection but rather the update status of a bibliographic item itself. As soon as I edit/update a collection item, it is represented in an updated formatting when called via the API. There seems to be a caching of formatted items.

dstillman

@miba: Try again now. Bib content was being cached for too long, so updated styles wouldn't be reflected for repeated requests until something else changed or the entries aged out of the cache. They're now cached for an hour.

jmiba

Perfect! Everything all right now. Thanks a lot.