Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] List entry_types in the rhythmdb

[Endre Oma <endre 88 oma gmail com>]

Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:49:37AM +0100, Endre Oma wrote:
> > Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:01:42PM +0100, Endre Oma wrote:
> > > > Hi, I'm new to the list.
> > > >
> > > > I'm new to plugin developing in rhythmbox, but has gotten a somewhat  
> > > > grip on the queries.
> > > >
> > > > My question is: How do I list or request the types os entries in the  
> > > > current db? Specifically those that come from a removable media 
> > > > source.
> > > There is no way to do this currently.  What are you trying to do in your
> > > plugin?  It might be easier to find the source you're interested in
> > > using the source list, then get the entry type using the source's
> > > 'entry-type' property.
> > I'm trying to find which podcasts that exist on the removable media. By  
> > looking up the podcasters artist and album and then trying to find those  
> > attributes on the removable media, I hope there is some way of  
> > administering those files on the removable media. The specific usage is  
> > uploading and deletion of tracks.
>
> To do this, I think you'd be best off identifying the target source
> through user interaction, perhaps by adding an item to the popup menu
> for the source.  It's probably difficult to find suitable sources by
> looking through the source list.
>
> You might have some difficulty matching up entries in the removable
> media source with podcast episodes, as the data for the podcast episode
> entry is taken from the podcast feed while the album/artist/title data
> for the entry on the removable media will be read from the tags in the
> file.  These are often completely different.  I'm not sure if there's a
> good solution to this..
>
> Transferring entries to a removable device is easy enough - pass a list
> of RhythmDBEntry objects to rb_source_paste.  Deleting entries is
> slightly uglier at the moment.  You'd need to change the selection
> in the source's entry view, then call rb_source_delete.  Something like
> this:
>
> void
> delete_entry_from_source (RBSource *source, RhythmDBEntry *entry)
> {
>   RBEntryView *view;
>
>   view = rb_source_get_entry_view (source);
>   rb_entry_view_select_none (view);
>   rb_entry_view_select_entry (view, entry);
>
>   rb_source_delete (source);
> }
Thank you for your advice. I do this in python.
I have a problem how to query the source (without going to the query_model).
I have seen and tried to use the source.props.entry_type, but when used 
in a query it seems that it queries the local database, not the 
removable media.
Am I best off using the query_model?