Adding extra data to favorites

[wakebdr]

Is there a way to add more info to a favorite recording? For instance, if I wanted to add some user generated meta data to a favorite that I setup, can it be done? I'm interested in writing a more sophisticated priority system for recordings and would need to add more detailed data to the favorites. Is this possible? If so, where would it get stored?

[GKusnick]

You can't add fields to the Favorite data type in wiz.bin, if that's what you're asking. But nothing stops you from storing arbitrary per-favorite data elsewhere. One simple solution is to use Get/SetServerProperty to store property data keyed by Favorite ID. Or you can create a separate property file or XML file for each favorite, similar to .my files or the XML files create by Niel's XML generator. There are any number of ways of storing extra data, so long as you have a way to link it back to the appropriate wiz.bin entries.

[wakebdr]

I was afraid that's what the answer was going to be. I guess reading/writing a file won't be so bad since Sage runs all the time and there isn't much starting and stopping of the core process.

[GKusnick]

Just remember to store your file on the server where all the clients can see it. Or if you really don't want to do your own file IO, use Get/SetServerProperty to write to Sage.properties as I suggested above.