Pull values from implicit fields of the Breadcrumbs plugin

[icytree]

As you might know, the Breadcrumbs plugin allows to set hierarchies between notes using some field to describe that relationship (parent, sibling, children and more). Some of these are implicit and not necessarily written to the file. I personally make use of the Dendron syntax (ex. noteA and noteA.section where noteA is then the parent of noteA.section because of its file name) as well as index files.

And so I was wondering if it would be possible to integrate these implicit fields in Dataview so they can be used in the dv queries ? (with the end goal of using them with the Obidian Database Plugin that leverages Dataview)

[AB1908]

I don't think it's that easy to implement implicit fields, at least if I'm understanding correctly. It appears that Breadcrumbs calculates those on the fly (from what little I understand of it). It's probably best to use it through its API since it doesn't exist in the file and thus can't be queried.

[icytree]

Thank you for your answer and sorry for the delay. I think I understand what you mean but I have to admit that APIs are a bit to the limit of my technical knowledge. From what I can remember from other discussions/threads, it is possible to interact with other plugins' API in Dataview by using Dataviewjs only, right ?

Would it also be possible to integrate the data from Breadcrumbs in Dataview as an option in the Dataview settings so that these fields can be accessible with fields name like maybe file.BC.<hierarchy direction> (ex. file.BC.up to retrive all up value of each note) ?

I guess, if it is also possible to access other plugins' API using JavaScript, it could be possible in Obidian Database Plugin (the end goal use of this feature for me) to write a JavaScript function that could be used in a formula to access this information ? Again here, my lack of knowledge in JavaScript is limiting me so any help would be more than welcome.