sagex api - 'null'

[syrel]

Hi
I'm trying to set up a transcode job using the api AddTranscodeJob. I've almost got it working, except for destination file. The api info says:

"DestinationFile- the target file path for the conversion or null if SageTV should automatically determine the filename of the target files, if a directory is given then SageTV auto-generates the filename in that directory"

How do I specify a 'null'? If I leave the field empty, it just converts to an unnamed ts file in the Sage home folder, rather than in the recorded TV folder. (DeleteSourceAfterTranscode is true, just in case that's relevant).
thanks
syrel

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by syrel

Hi
I'm trying to set up a transcode job using the api AddTranscodeJob. I've almost got it working, except for destination file. The api info says:

"DestinationFile- the target file path for the conversion or null if SageTV should automatically determine the filename of the target files, if a directory is given then SageTV auto-generates the filename in that directory"

How do I specify a 'null'? If I leave the field empty, it just converts to an unnamed ts file in the Sage home folder, rather than in the recorded TV folder. (DeleteSourceAfterTranscode is true, just in case that's relevant).
thanks
syrel

I'm assuming here you are meaning the sagex REST api and you are calling some command, using c=COMMAND&1=PARAM1&2=PARAM2, etc.

If so you can try 2 things...
1. You can something like, 2=mediafile:-666, and that "might" result in a "null" return and it "might" get passed as null to the final command.
2. You can use the EvaluateCommand api where you basically create the entire command a text. (this is sort of like an eval in javascript) (I think it is called evaluate command, but it might be called something else, and I don't have sagetv server up and running to check it -- in the sagex api, you can search for eval and see what comes back)

[syrel]

Thanks. I'll try that out later.