Re: Schedules Direct AU and NZ data offering

Robert Kulagowski <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:16:38 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel
Message-ID <CAGe0w3TLDtO7Af3FEzqb52btB2qrkoLF-9trNh2cUZti2_oVOw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Kevin Groeneveld
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> One thing I did notice is that some programs don't seem to include an
>> entityType field which I have never seen before.  This triggers a perl
>> warning in my grabber but doesn't stop it from working.  I should maybe
>> handle this case more explicitly.
>
> As the Schedules Direct JSON data definition specifies
> "entityType: string. Mandatory" that sounds like another
> (source) data issue(*).  I (privately) reported another case
> of a mandatory field (the md5) not existing in an example
> that was identified/fixed almost as soon as I reported it
> (maybe before I reported it?), which was apparently due
> to some race conditions in data creation.
>
> The joys of data in-gestation from disparate sources.

I've re-generated the programs for AU/NZ and made sure that they have
an entityType now.

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