Stumped with RolesListForPeopleList in AddShow()

[dflachbart]

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a bug:

I'm not able to change the list of roles for a show object. When I update the metadata for a show with AddShow() and pass in the existing list of role values for the "RolesListForPeopleList" parameter, a following "GetPopleListInShowInRoles" correctly returns the same role values. But if I change just a single entry in that input parameter list in order to change a particular role entry, the field in the show object seems to get set to an empty string, all following access calls return an empty string at that position.

Any ideas ?


Dirk

[nielm]

I am not sure I understand exactly what you are doing, but I got this working in the webserver's edit show info... and it works in 6.1.9 (not tried it in 6.2 yet)

Only a certain set of Role names are supported (corresponding to what GetRoleTypes() returns), and both people and Role lists must be java String arrays, not lists...

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by nielm

Only a certain set of Role names are supported (corresponding to what GetRoleTypes() returns), and both people and Role lists must be java String arrays, not lists...

Ahhh ok, I didn't know that there was a restriction on the set of role names. I'm trying to update the role list from DVD profiler metadata, and it probably uses different role names which are not supported. Maybe I can do some mapping first...

Thanks a lot Niel,


Dirk

[stanger89]

Yeah, I'm guessing you're trying to do what I want to do, that is put the actual "role" (ie character) in that field. Unfortunately, it only supports things like "Lead Actor", etc.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Yeah, I'm guessing you're trying to do what I want to do, that is put the actual "role" (ie character) in that field. Unfortunately, it only supports things like "Lead Actor", etc.

Yeah, that was part of the problem...

I think I found a solution for now - for actors, I append the character role from DVDProfiler in parenthesis to the actual PeopleList entry and set "Actor" as the role. I might make this into an option, for those who want to keep "clean" actor fields in the wiz.bin (though I tested the 'people' search in the default STV with this, and it still works).

For the 'functional' roles, I parse the <CreditSubtype> entries from the collection.xml, and add Name and Role to the parameter lists if the entry is "compatible" with the supported SageTV roles (there are a few, like e.g. 'Director', 'Producer', etc)...

Dirk

[stanger89]

Hm, interesting...