Re: Add pre-scan task?

mherger wrote: 
> 
> > One example I can think of: if the user decides to rescan, a plugin
> > could ask LMS to create a backup of the plugin data first before
> > starting the scan process.
> 
> That should work just fine using the above method.

Code:
--------------------
    sub initPlugin {
  
Slim::Music::Import->addImporter
  
  if (main::SCANNER) {
  	unless (!Slim::Schema::hasLibrary()) {
  		createbackup();
  	}
  }
  ...
  }
--------------------


So for the purpose of creating a pre-scan backup, the order of the
commands above would be ok in the initPlugin part (or was it the
postInitPlugin part)?

And am I correct to assume that because LMS is single-threaded, the scan
process will wait for createBackup to finish? Is there any (hard-coded)
time-out that applies -at this pre-scan stage- of the importer, in case
the backup takes a bit longer?

And what if, for some reason, createBackup throws an error? Will that
make the whole scan process fail?



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