Re: Parsing DIDL-Lite xml strings

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Hi,

> Hello,
>   I have strings with DIDL-Lite xml. I need to parse them (validate,
> get some elements (title, duration, uri)).
>
> If I understand well, gupnp_didl_lite_parser_parse_didl() does two 
> tasks:
> 1) parse the xml string
> 2) query the media server about availability of the described media
>
> I only need the first half of the job. Is there a way for that?
> (I know that the media servers won't reply to me at the time I process
> the strings).

It only does the first :) If you look at
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gupnp-av/tree/libgupnp-av/gupnp-didl-lite-parser.c

there is no networking involved.

The "available" signal just means it has found a complete object, item 
or
container in the DIDL-Lite document and passes it to you. You can think 
of
it more as a filterable call-back, i.e. "object-available" is triggered 
on
every item node in the DIDL-Lite, item-available only on items
("object.item*" UPnP class) and container-available only on containers
("object.container*" UPnP class).

Please note it's a bit overly strict at the moment:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740266

because it does things that should ideally be done in the server or 
client.