[Hitcher]

ListItem.Cast doesn't show up when in the normal library view but it does if I use the library data provider addon!

videodb://movies/titles/ - no cast



plugin://service.library.data.provider/?type=recentmovies - cast



What's going on?

[Hitcher]

Did some more digging -

According to the wiki -

Shows a concatenated string of cast members of the currently selected movie in a list or thumb control

But I can't get it to show anything in a list.

Bug?

Thanks.

not a bug. problem is it requires many extra queries which slows down the listing tons...

no, it's available in the info dialog... eventually we'll add background fetching of info, then it will be avail in the listings as well (after a brief delay).

So the question is: Is this still not possible without a big overhead?

Thanks.

[Hitcher]

Paging Johnathan.

[jmarshall]

Short answer: yes. If you examine the JSON-RPC requests being made, you'll see a separate query (or 3) done for each item.

I think some cleanup work on the background loader would be needed before this was efficient.

[Hitcher]

OK, thanks for the reply. Looks like we need to change the label.

[Arcanthur]

OK, thanks for the reply. Looks like we need to change the label.

No worries, we can just move the plot outline up and show 4 lines instead of 3.