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

[Endre Oma <endre 88 oma gmail com>]

Endre Oma wrote:
> 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?
Forget that last post, i was too hasty. I just found out that the album 
I thought didn't exist on the removable media, actually did exist. So 
much for getting excited.