API call to convert show title to file name?

[Slugger]

When recording 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien' Sage creates the recording file as:

TheTonightShowWithConanOBrien-xxxx-n.ts

Is there an API call that will convert the full show title to that used in the file name for the recording (i.e. remove puncuation, spacing, etc. as SageTV does when creating files)? Or is Sage perhaps using a Java API call that I'm over looking?

[Opus4]

What are you trying to accomplish? You can easily get the filename(s) for an existing recording w/o trying to build it yourself.

- Andy

[Slugger]

Excellent point, assuming that Sage will always drop hyphens from show names then I can just take everything in front of the first hyphen in the file name? (reply to a post another user deleted)

[stuckless]

I don't think there is an exposed function to do this, but, if I had to guess (and i am), then i'd think it would be something like this...

title = title.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]","") + "-" + airingId + "-" + segmentNumber + "." + ext;

But, given that you have the airingId, then you can simply use the SageAPIs to get the filename for the mediafile associated with the airing.

[GKusnick]

To my knowledge, there is no API contract to the effect that filenames shall have a particular format or obey a particular naming rule. In principle the core is free to name files as it sees fit, so long as it provides an API for obtaining the actual filename(s) chosen for an existing recording (which it does). It does not provide a way of predicting what the filename will be for a future recording, nor is there any guarantee that any prediction rule you come up with will remain valid in future versions.

So I guess I'm wondering the same thing Andy is: what is it you're trying to do that requires that sort of predictability?

[stanger89]

Or to look at it another way:

What are you doing where you'll have a Show/Episode title string, but not a handle to the SageTV MediaFile/Airing object from which you could get the file handle (GetFileForSegment)

Everything you do inside Sage revolves around having an Airing or MediaFile object/handle, including displaying the name (GetAiringTitle/GetShowTitle/GetShowEpisode called on the MediaFile/Airing object). Thus if you got the title string from the API, it's trivial to get the file name/path.