User Categories in Phoenix views

[Fuzzy]

Has anyone sorted the best way to filter views based on user categories? (yes, I am aware that phoenix doesn't seem to use user categories in the favorite menus, but if set up in the stock ui, they should still be accessible to use with filters. I'm thinking this will have to be done with the getmediafilemetadata call, but I have not verified that is works yet in filters. didn't want to try to re-invent the wheel if someone has already got this going.

[Fuzzy]

Well, made quicker progress than I had expected. I did an expression source using the filterbymethod call, as follows (in this example, "Chris" is the User Category I'm looking for):

<!DOCTYPE vfs SYSTEM "vfs.dtd">
<vfs>
	<views>
		<view name="christv" label="Chris' TV">
			<tag value="tv"/>
			<description>Chris' TV Shows grouped by Show</description>
			<source name="expression">
				<option name="expression">
					FilterByMethod(GetMediaFiles("T"), "UserCategories", "Chris", true)
				</option>
				<filter by="mediatype" value="tv" />
			</source>
			<presentation level="1">
				<group by="show"/>
				<sort by="title"/>
				<hint value="series"/>
			</presentation>

			<presentation level="2">
				<sort by="seasonepisode"/>
			</presentation>
		</view>
	</views>
</vfs>

[Fuzzy]

Something I did discover, is that if I tried to wrap the expression in the phoenix_util_ToArray() function, as is shown in the examples, it fail's out returning null... but as written, seems to function properly. Is the conversion to an array no longer needed?

[stuckless]

The underlying code expects an array, and the toArray is meant to convert a list/set to an array. It could be that the expression is already returning an array, as as such, ToArray is not needed. I may not be checking if the input for ToArray is an array, and as such, if you pass an array it ends up being null (I should fix that )

[Fuzzy]

Cool.. It's just that the expression sample in the sticky thread uses the getmediafiles call and it's wrapped in a toarray... filterbymethod should be returning the same type as whats sent in to it.