How should you use the BlackHole downloader?

[jmichiel]

You can only configure the downloader where to put its NZBs or torrent files. If you configure a mover, you can only tell where to move to. How can you tell any of them where to look for finished downloads?

[lad1337]

you don't have to ... the downloaders will report that each downloader plugin has methods to check what the status of a download is

e.g. the Sabnzbd https://github.com/lad1337/XDM-main-plugin-repo/blob/master/Sabnzbd/Sabnzbd.py#L112 this method is called periodically

BUT the BlackHole downloader does not support this ... correct you could expand it to check a folder and look for files that match a name or something and then report that back https://github.com/lad1337/XDM-main-plugin-repo/blob/master/Sabnzbd/Sabnzbd.py#L137 with the finished location (this expanding would of course require a final location config fyi if you use the word path in the config name the gui will have a folder selector if you use the word filepath its a file selector)

this location is passed to the post process scripts

fyi most plugins i make are only very basic especially the BlackHole downloader ^_^

ps the full "spec" of a plugin class is always the class itself Downloader: https://github.com/lad1337/XDM/blob/master/xdm/plugins/bases.py#L468 (if that helps)

[jmichiel]

Thanks for the info! If I find the time, I'll fork and update Blackhole!

BTW: there are a few typos in XDM:

• getElementStaus should rather be getElementSta_t_us
• pluginRootLibarys should rather be pluginRootLib_r_arys Solving them might be tricky, though, as they're part of the interface... For the rest: splendid project!

[lad1337]

sigh ... Thanks

And thanks :)

[Torf]

Be careful that plugins have to be updated with XDM when you change this kind of names.

Btw, i found some other misspelling in bases.py & pluginManager.py :

• _get_plugin_isntallpath instead of _get_plugin_installpath
• completedStatues instead of completedStatuses (or completedStatus i don't know if there is only one status ?)
• pluginRootLibarys instead of pluginRootLibraries (or pluginRootLibrary if there is only one library)