jurialmunkey
commented
4 years ago Hmm. It's possible but not simple. Basically the {tags} are filled from a dictionary using built-in python string formatting - e.g. when the string formatter sees {title} it just substitutes it with whatever value matches the title key in the item details.
I think maybe a better approach would be to have separate player files for each method that you want to use. Then maybe I can add something like an "assert" value which says that those key values must exist otherwise the player fails and is removed from the list (just like if it failed to find an item).
Using Netflix player as an example:
{
"name" : "Netflix",
"plugin" : "plugin.video.netflix",
"priority" : 500,
"assert" : {
"play_movie": ["title", "year"],
"play_episode": ["showname", "season", "episode"],
"search_movie": ["title"],
"search_episode": ["showname"]
},
"play_movie" : [
"plugin://plugin.video.netflix/directory/search/search/{title}/",
{"title": "{title}", "year": "{year}"}
],
"play_episode" : [
"plugin://plugin.video.netflix/directory/search/search/{showname}/",
{"title": "{showname}"},
{"season": "{season}"},
{"season": "{season}", "episode": "{episode}"}
],
"search_movie" : "plugin://plugin.video.netflix/directory/search/search/{title}/",
"search_episode" : "plugin://plugin.video.netflix/directory/search/search/{showname}/"
}So here for the play movie action to display as an option in the dialog there would need to be values for title and year. For the play episode option to display there would need to be showname, season, and episode. However, the search movie/episode options will display even if only the title/showname is available.
Do you think that would work for your needs?
juanma-cvega
Would it be possible to provide a way to only add a variable to a player when it's available? For instance, when no TVDB id is available I would like to not include neither the variable nor the parameter that uses it in a url passed to the player. Again the EmbyCon player as an example. If the tvdb id is not present, I would like the parameter 'AnyProviderIdEquals' to not be included. So an option could to be to pass from
{server}/emby/Users/{userid}/Items?IncludeItemTypes=movie&Recursive=true&ImageTypeLimit=1& AnyProviderIdEquals=tvdb.{tvdbid}&Limit=16&searchTerm={title}to this{server}/emby/Users/{userid}/Items?IncludeItemTypes=movie&Recursive=true&ImageTypeLimit=1[**& AnyProviderIdEquals=tvdb.{tvdbid}]**&Limit=16&searchTerm={title}For this player, the searchTerm parameter interferes with the AnyProviderIdEquals one (if there is a match using the provider id but for some reason the names are different, which could happen as I've seen in the Emby server when someone messes up the TVDB database, there are no results being returned), so another possible feature could be to add a condition on one element being added based on another one not being there but that would be quite a lot of work I think.