Error thrown when attempting to use reschedule feature

[hindermyertim]

Hi I've been messing around testing this looking to see if this plugin will be suitable to use for an upcoming music marathon I'm organizing for a charity. So far it seems good but I've found an issue with the reschedule feature when attempting to set in a designated start time for a media clip. You can't get super exact with timing with the timeline so this ether that would need to be tightened up, or this feature would need to work to hard configure a start time for the next media file. Let me know if you need any more information.

Below is my output in the terminal. Also going to note once this happens, the timeline breaks. Even if I ctrl + c out of the program in the terminal, it is not functional again on start so I have been removing and reinstalling the program.

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "javax.json.JsonString.getString()" because the return value of "org.glassfish.json.JsonObjectBuilderImpl$JsonObjectImpl.getJsonString(String)" is null at org.glassfish.json.JsonObjectBuilderImpl$JsonObjectImpl.getString(JsonObjectBuilderImpl.java:257) at util.ScheduleEntry.fromJsonObject(ScheduleEntry.java:27) at util.DataProvider.getSchedule(DataProvider.java:94) at services.VideoLaunchService.run(VideoLaunchService.java:29) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832) java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "javax.json.JsonString.getString()" because the return value of "org.glassfish.json.JsonObjectBuilderImpl$JsonObjectImpl.getJsonString(String)" is null at org.glassfish.json.JsonObjectBuilderImpl$JsonObjectImpl.getString(JsonObjectBuilderImpl.java:257) at util.ScheduleEntry.fromJsonObject(ScheduleEntry.java:27) at util.DataProvider.getSchedule(DataProvider.java:94) at services.VideoLaunchService.run(VideoLaunchService.java:29) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832) java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException

[pashkal]

Hey! Thanks for reporting.

I'd love to debug this issue.

Next time you see this error, please do the following:

• in the directory scheduler is installed, there's a folder called data
• in this directory, you can find a file schedule.json
• please send me it's contents (if you don't want to post it here, you can send it to me on my email address krotkov.pavel@gmail.com)
• clearing the contents in this file will also help you to fix the scheduler without reinstalling it (file should contain the empty json array that looks like this: [])

As for precise timing: at the moment, this is intentional that videos are sticky to specific moments on the timeline. I will look into whether it can easily be changed to allow for more flexible timing.

[pashkal]

Actually never mind.

This change is fixing 'reschedule' functionality: https://github.com/pashkal/obs-video-scheduler/commit/f1a708848a0feb63ae4eb906d2bd39246376a66e

Note, however, that this button doesn't reschedule individual clip - it moves the whole timeline back and forth relative to the 'start' time, together with all the videos. This is a highly niche feature we needed when I was building this project. I'll explore how to make scheduling more flexible so that you could schedule videos more precisely.

I'll explore how to make the whole timeline more flexible, too.

[pashkal]

I will see if I can make timeline more flexible over the weekend, and if I do - I'll push changes and release a new version.

Can't promise anything yet though.

[hindermyertim]

Ok understood on the reschedule feature, I must have misunderstood the doc with that.

Feel free to let me know on any the timeline changes, I would be happy to help test!

[gijoe2cool]

I also just ran into this issue. I've also noticed that my scheduler places videos at the nearest minute, which is fine, but it's always off 29 seconds...

[pashkal]

Hey folks,

I've released 0.1.3 with reschedule bug fixed, and with the capability to stack videos one after another - no more precise timing yet, but from what I've heard on the OBS forum people mostly want it to be able to stack videos.

So, I think this issue is resolved - feel free to open a new one for a more flexible timing!