Re: New fields on JSON service: "totalSeason", "totalEpisodes", "awards", "duration", "episodeImage"

On 24 May 2016 at 01:56, Kevin Groeneveld <[email protected]> wrote:
>>(numbers except totals are zero based)
>
> I am not sure if it was always like this or not but I just noticed some
> programs in the JSON feed have "0" for the episode and/or season.  Since the
> XMTLV values are zero based what should be put in the XML for this case?
> "-1" seems wrong, "0" would be ambiguous.  I guess this field should just be
> left blank in this case?
>
> For example:
>
> 'programID' => 'SH011924320000',
>                                                 'metadata' => [
>                                                                 {
>
> 'Gracenote' => {
>
> 'totalEpisodes' => 178,
>
> 'episode' => 0,
>
> 'season' => 0,
>
> 'totalSeasons' => 23
>
> }
>                                                                 }
>                                                               ],
>
> Should the XML then be "/23./178"?

There's no support in the xmltv_ns scheme for episode/season 0
(whatever that means? :) )

The xmltv_ns scheme uses "current season/total seasons" and "episode
of current season/total episodes in current season".

Iff there were 178 episodes in the *current* season, the data is valid
under the xmltv_ns scheme; the relevant dtd section states "If any of
these aren't known they can be omitted"

However, without the current season/episode numbering available for a
programme  I'm not sure how useful a consuming application would find
just the series totals.

Note that you do not have to use the xmltv_ns scheme - you can define
and use your own, but with most end-user software using the xmltv_ns
scheme it would probably be a good idea to use that if you can. If you
look at the xmltv.dtd you'll see a few other numbering schemes were
proposed a few years back but I'm not sure how many grabbers (both
internal and external to the XMLTV Project) deviate from the
"standard" xmltv_ns scheme.

Cheers,
Nick

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