GetSeriesID not working on Sage 9

[davidb]

I have noticed that I am not getting the seriesID back when I am running on Sage 9(9.0.8.429) with Java Version 1.7.0_79. The code I am using is (sorry I don't know how to keep the forum post from formatting the code)

Object files[];
files = MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFiles("DT");
if (files != null)
{
for(int x=0; x < files.length; x++)
{
Object mediafile = files[x];
Object airing = MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFileAiring(mediafile);
Object show = AiringAPI.GetShow(airing);
Object seriesInfo = ShowAPI.GetShowSeriesInfo(show);
if (seriesInfo != null)
{
String seriesID = SeriesInfoAPI.GetSeriesID(seriesInfo);

The seriesID is coming back "0" for every media item when running on Sage 9.
If I run the same code on my older server with Sage 7 then I get the seriesID. I am not sure if its an issue with sagex or with Sagetv.

Thanks!
David

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by davidb

...sorry I don't know how to keep the forum post from formatting the code...

for future reference, you can enclose the text in between [CODE] [/CODE] tags

Object files[];
files = MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFiles("DT");
if (files != null) 
{
  for(int x=0; x < files.length; x++)
  {
     Object mediafile = files[x];
     Object airing = MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFileAiring(mediafile);
     Object show = AiringAPI.GetShow(airing);
     Object seriesInfo = ShowAPI.GetShowSeriesInfo(show);
     if (seriesInfo != null)
     {
        String seriesID = SeriesInfoAPI.GetSeriesID(seriesInfo);

[jusjoken]

I wonder if this is the same issue i raised back in Feb

here.....

It was not resolved as far as i know but i moved on to other items at the time.

k

[davidb]

Yes it sure looks like the same issue! It should be an easy fix as the STV is able to get the seriesID info. I hope someone with more java experience than I can look at it. I am writing most of my server side code in c# and am least comfortable with java.

David

Originally Posted by jusjoken

I wonder if this is the same issue i raised back in Feb

here.....

It was not resolved as far as i know but i moved on to other items at the time.

k

[CollegeProject]

I am curious about this issue as well. Do you notice that the series id is also not set for the item (like when browsing via BMT) That's what I am noticing. Of course my samples are all imported but I do have guide data and a tuner.

Regardless as a "temp" but messy solution I do this to get the series information

 public static Object getSetMissingSeries(Object sObj)
        {
        Object rSeries = new Object();
        String mTitle= phoenix.metadata.GetMediaTitle(sObj);
        for(Object series:sagex.api.SeriesInfoAPI.GetAllSeriesInfo())
        {
         String sTitle=sagex.api.SeriesInfoAPI.GetSeriesTitle(series);
         if(sTitle.equals(mTitle))
         {  
         rSeries=series;
         break;
         }
        }
        return rSeries;
        }
}

I think check to make sure my return isn't empty or you could do a null return and check that. It's messy but it works and is fairly quick. I just wish I could find a way to set that series id to the object so I don't have to find it everytime but I have yet found a way to do it.

[Narflex]

OK, I know what happened here. I've submitted a change to resolve it which shouldn't have any negative impact.

[CollegeProject]

Unfortunately mine are still not being set. I am not sure if its BMT or sage. Narflex is there a way to set the id's myself once I find them by looping through?

[Narflex]

Originally Posted by CollegeProject

Unfortunately mine are still not being set. I am not sure if its BMT or sage. Narflex is there a way to set the id's myself once I find them by looping through?

No, you can't set the IDs for a SeriesInfo object in the database because it's using those as keys for indexing. If you use the latest code though the GetSeriesID method should be returning non-zero values...is it not?

[davidb]

I am currently using SageTV version 9.1.5.683 and still using the code in the first message to get the SeriesID. My current sagetv has 30 episodes of the Hallmark channel "When Calls the Heart" series and the stv is grouping them all together. However when I run the above code I am getting 27 episodes with one SeriesID and 3 episodes with another SeriesID. I am using the SeriesID for my app to group series epiosodes together. Both seriesID's are greater than 0. Any idea if it's an issue on my code or is this an issue on the sagetv side?

Thanks
David

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by davidb

I am currently using SageTV version 9.1.5.683 and still using the code in the first message to get the SeriesID. My current sagetv has 30 episodes of the Hallmark channel "When Calls the Heart" series and the stv is grouping them all together. However when I run the above code I am getting 27 episodes with one SeriesID and 3 episodes with another SeriesID. I am using the SeriesID for my app to group series epiosodes together. Both seriesID's are greater than 0. Any idea if it's an issue on my code or is this an issue on the sagetv side?

Thanks
David

I know for phoenix when we group by series, we are actually grouping the media title (ie, the show name). We don't use the seriesinfo id.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by Narflex

No, you can't set the IDs for a SeriesInfo object in the database because it's using those as keys for indexing. If you use the latest code though the GetSeriesID method should be returning non-zero values...is it not?

That's not always going to be true since we don't get any information from Schedules Direct in this area. What I have to work with isn't consistent, so you might have an ID at some point in time, but we might not have enough to work with at a later date and the ID ends up being 0.

Edit: The code doesn't go into the Wizard to see if a SeriesInfo entry already exists, so that could be an improvement I guess.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

That's not always going to be true since we don't get any information from Schedules Direct in this area. What I have to work with isn't consistent, so you might have an ID at some point in time, but we might not have enough to work with at a later date and the ID ends up being 0.

Edit: The code doesn't go into the Wizard to see if a SeriesInfo entry already exists, so that could be an improvement I guess.

I do that phoenix/bmt when adding a new series... ie, I find a series with the same name ans use it, otherwise I add a new one.

[davidb]

I am not sure if the problems I was having with GetSeriesID had to do with the fact that some episodes were recorded with sage7 with the sage epg and some with the sage9 with schedules direct.

I gave up on using GetSeriesID as I was getting one non zero seriesID for 27 episodes and a different non zero seriesID for 3 episodes. Thanks to a private message from EnterNoEscape I am now using the ShowExternalID. It will return a value like "EP015474730074". I strip off the first two left most characters "EP" and then convert to an integer. This is what appears to be a unique number for the series and the 4 least significant digits the episode number. I take that number and and with with 0xffff to get the episode number. Next I right shift by 4 to get a unique number for the series.

[Narflex]

Originally Posted by davidb

I gave up on using GetSeriesID as I was getting one non zero seriesID for 27 episodes and a different non zero seriesID for 3 episodes. Thanks to a private message from EnterNoEscape I am now using the ShowExternalID. It will return a value like "EP015474730074". I strip off the first two left most characters "EP" and then convert to an integer. This is what appears to be a unique number for the series and the 4 least significant digits the episode number. I take that number and and with with 0xffff to get the episode number. Next I right shift by 4 to get a unique number for the series.

That works some of the time...it's pretty good for an overall approximation though. Unfortunately I can't remember right now when this doesn't work.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by Narflex

That works some of the time...it's pretty good for an overall approximation though. Unfortunately I can't remember right now when this doesn't work.

If it comes back to you, I would really like to know under what circumstances this doesn't work. The only thought I have is if the series has more than one "ID" which I guess could happen if they reach 9999 episodes?

[davidb]

I have reworked my code to use the ShowExternalID as described a few posts above as a "seriesID" and now all of my shows are grouping properly. The frustrating thing was GetSeriesID was so "close" to right but ShowExternalID worked for me in grouping all of my episodes in a series. To anyone lurking BEWARE if you use GetSeriesID to "attempt" to group all episodes for a series!
I am not sure if the api docs are auto generated or if there is a way to put a note about this in the GetSeriesID or not.

David

Originally Posted by Narflex

That works some of the time...it's pretty good for an overall approximation though. Unfortunately I can't remember right now when this doesn't work.