XBMC-PHP-RPC - a PHP JSON-RPC library supporting HTTP and TCP

Hi Mindzai,

I was wondering if there be a new version of your wrapper for the new JSON-RPC API?

Also i spent some time this morning looking at my issue with the wrong albums being returned by AudioLibrary->GetAlbums(), and i have to say i'm pretty confused as to what is going on, i honestly don't know how to proceed, as far as i can tell the problem must be coming from the JSON-RPC API but if that is the case why does it only happen to me??

If you have a moment or two could you look at the output and maybe make a comment?

My test library has 12 albums, first the result of a AudioLibrary->GetAlbums() call with no param: now the array i send as arguments to the same call and finally the result of the call with the arguments included
You can see from the second call the start value '2' is correct but the albumid of the items returned match items [4] and [5] which is not expected, the albumid's should match items [2] and [3].

At this point any feedback would be appreciated.

Hey Midzai,
Thanks a lot for this. Has been working relatively well with one exception. I'm trying to get the Movie library in alphabetical order but for some reason no matter what params I use it only gives me the same order (not-alphabetical). Am I doing something wrong?

There's a bug in TCPClient::sendRequest.



Should be (there are no spaces around ':'):

gugahoi Wrote:Hey Midzai,
Thanks a lot for this. Has been working relatively well with one exception. I'm trying to get the Movie library in alphabetical order but for some reason no matter what params I use it only gives me the same order (not-alphabetical). Am I doing something wrong?

PHP Code:

try{
    $response = $rpc->VideoLibrary->GetMovies(array("sortmethod"=> "title", "sortorder"=> "descending"));
} catch (XBMC_RPC_Exception $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}
echo '<pre>';print_r($response);echo '</pre>'; 


Never mind, I figured out that "sortmethod" doesn't work with Dharma.

I've done a similar thing. If you're interested you might want to take look at this:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82520

Romep Wrote:There's a bug in TCPClient::sendRequest.

Code:

if (strpos($result, '"id" : "' . $rpcId . '"') !== false) {

Should be (there are no spaces around ':'):

Code:

if (strpos($result, '"id":"' . $rpcId . '"') !== false) {

On my test system the response has spaces before and after the colon. Which version of XBMC are you using? I assume this is due to different XBMC versions.

I have updated the code for now to handle both situations anyway.

gugahoi Wrote:Never mind, I figured out that "sortmethod" doesn't work with Dharma.

Sorry for the delay. Yes I found the same thing as you in my testing. Unfortunately I think the best solution would be to sort in the client code via usort.

erhnam Wrote:I've done a similar thing. If you're interested you might want to take look at this:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82520

Cool I'll have a look, thanks.

Mindzai Wrote:Sorry for the delay. Yes I found the same thing as you in my testing. Unfortunately I think the best solution would be to sort in the client code via usort.

No no there's no need for that. The correct syntax would be in this style

Another question I had: is this compatible with Nightly builds? If not, do you plan on updating it at all?

Thanks!

gugahoi Wrote:No no there's no need for that. The correct syntax would be in this style

Code:

"sort": { "method": "videotitle" }

Ah excellent thanks for that. I really wish the JSON-RPC wiki was more informative!

Quote:Another question I had: is this compatible with Nightly builds? If not, do you plan on updating it at all?

Thanks!

My test system at work is currently XBMC PRE-10.5 r32807. I haven't tested against a more recent version yet, but I'll compile a nightly build and check things out. If it doesn't work I will be updating it so that it does, yes.