Montellese Wrote:"Parse error" indicates, that the json object of your request is not valid. A good place to check your syntax is http://www.jsonlint.com
In this particular case the problem is the backslash in your path which is used as an escape character so you need to add another one in front of it (\\) to escape it.

Hope this helped.

othrayte Wrote:Inside the TraktUtilities add-on I had relied on the fact that XBMC's json notifications were separated by '/n' characters but recently these have been removed, was this by design or was it an accident, without these '/n' characters it is much harder to receive the notifications.

Montellese Wrote:This has probably changed with the migration from jsoncpp to yajl and therefore the change of JSON writers. What you should do anyway is counting { and }. So a { increases the counter and a } decreases it and everytime you just read a } and the counter is 0 you received a full object which you can parse.

othrayte Wrote:Ok, I had considered this, I wasn't sure whether the {} could exist within "" , or if it was possible to escape the {} characters; because if so then I would also have to check for those.

topfs2 Wrote:Forgot to say that we could add \n between notifications if we wanted, afaik its not outside the spec. Anything in between the json objects is meant to be thrown away if we have proper parsers.

I do think its better if we don't have anything in between though, as it makes writing parsers easier IMO (don't have to think about throwing away the wrong data). And checking for \n is not that safe at any rate as you could have \n in a string also (very unlikely though).

• If you only want to retrieve the definition of a single method you can call
  
  Code:

  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "JSONRPC.Introspect", "params": { "filter": { "id": "VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails", "type": "method" } }, "id": 1}
  What you will get as an answer is the JSON Schema definition of the VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails method + only the JSON Schema type definitions of the types referenced by VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails.
  
  
• If you don't care about the definition of the referenced types (because you already know them) and only need the bare definition of the method you can call
  
  Code:

  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "JSONRPC.Introspect", "params": { "filter": { "id": "VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails", "type": "method", "getreferences": false } }, "id": 1}
  The "getreferences" attribute (which is enabled by default) lets you define whether you want to see the definition of all the referenced types or not.
  
  
• The same works for type definitions like "List.Sort"
  
  Code:

  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "JSONRPC.Introspect", "params": { "filter": { "id": "List.Sort", "type": "type" } }, "id": 1}
  
  
• If you want to see all the methods available in a certain namespace (e.g. AudioPlaylist) you can call
  
  Code:

  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "JSONRPC.Introspect", "params": { "filter": { "id": "AudioPlaylist", "type": "namespace" } }, "id": 1}

bartdesign Wrote:I'm using the latest osx nightly and I'm trying to use the VideoLibraryGetRecentlyAddedEpisodes() to get the newest tv show episodes. But i'm missing a reference back to the tv show itself. Is it possible to get the tv show thumbnail? I've looked through introspect but i can't find an good solution.

It would be nice to have the tvshow id returned with the Library.Fields.Episode. That way it would be easy to get an reference to a show from the recently added episodes. Another way to solve this is to create a function that returns the tvshowid with the episodeid as parameter, but that will create an extra call.