Media Browser Integration

[mvallevand]

do recordings have thumbnails?

No. I personally use imageGrabLite in post processing to rename the file to S##E## or (Year) notation, which gives easy access to good metadata sites thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org that have really good thumbs.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Will you be using the native url command lines sub provides or are you interested in using RESTful service calls out of NEWA?

Below is what is there today. For the NEWA based services I use a hybrid event object that provides all 3 segments of the event (if they exist) - the event itself, the recording info and recurring recording info.

Let me know.... I can build out additional services based on your needs. If not, that is fine too.

[lukemb3]

command lines? Right now we are using the xbmc add-on as sample code. so we're using the web service.

i am certainly interested in your rest service once it's ready though, particularly if it can give us json so that we can do away with xml parsing.

[lukemb3]

What would be fantastic is if you could integrate something like swagger so that you could have self-describing documentation:

Demo:

http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com/

We use it for our api and it's gotten great feedback from our ui developers.

[UncleJohnsBand]

What would be fantastic is if you could integrate something like swagger so that you could have self-describing documentation:

Demo:

http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com/

We use it for our api and it's gotten great feedback from our ui developers.

Nice.... I have been looking for something like this..... I will check it out for sure.

[UncleJohnsBand]

command lines? Right now we are using the xbmc add-on as sample code. so we're using the web service.

i am certainly interested in your rest service once it's ready though, particularly if it can give us json so that we can do away with xml parsing.

I am not really familiar with the xbmx add-on interface other than knowing it is using URLs with passed in parameters and returns XML.

The NEWA interface REST services do return JSON objects.

What I posted earlier is available in the version of NEWA that is bundled with NPVR 3.1.1.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Nice.... I have been looking for something like this..... I will check it out for sure.

I got swagger results using swashbuckle... but just like all the other things I had looked at it falls short of being a strong utility because NEWA is a web site.... not a web application. The xml documentation within Visual Studio is now only executed for applications. There have been a lot of requests and posts to MS to restore the ability to also generate the documentation file for web sites....but it has fallen on deaf ears the last few years. Prior to .Net 2 NEWA was a compiled application.....Net 2 brought the flexibility to not have to compile the web app.....but it appears in recent technology developments (MVC, Web API, etc.) MS is leaning things back towards utilizing web applications instead of just web sites.

It is better than nothing though....at east it is self documenting and provides a testing interface into the services....I just can't get descriptive info into it.....

[lukemb3]

Glad you're liking it. I think you can get those descriptions filled in, you just have to look at what swagger is expecting. We use ServiceStack along with their swagger plugin so it does all the work for us.

I took a look at the zip you attached. It looks good but without examples I won't really be able to get started.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Glad you're liking it. I think you can get those descriptions filled in, you just have to look at what swagger is expecting. We use ServiceStack along with their swagger plugin so it does all the work for us.

I took a look at the zip you attached. It looks good but without examples I won't really be able to get started.

Sent you a PM with my e-mail as well as access to my FTP server where you can download a version that contains the swagger info via http://localhost:8866/swagger

As for ServiceStack.....it sounded promising but after reading that it is moving to a commercial only project I decided not to use it. Sad that they had to take that path...

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream...vybu1nje54

[mvallevand]

I took a look at the zip you attached. It looks good but without examples I won't really be able to get started.

I've got python examples if you are interested and it usually provides option to use one or the other for comparison. You can typically do more with the NEWA JSON because it sends lots of information, but it a bit more awkward to interface with. My problem right now is I need to use XML, JSON and SOAP to get everything I need, at least until UJB updates all the SOAP calls to JSON.

Martin