[somebody]

hi,
i just noticed that most of my JS-framework (for doing web based IDEs) might work out of the box on Kodi, thanks to JSON-RPC2.0 with full introspection. Now the default and Chorus does already do a good job but I'd like to add a bit more functionality:

Do you think that these features are possible to implement for the most platforms:

1. download any content from any add-on (i found redirect-download but I am not sure that will do). By downloading I mean client but also Kodi side(new context-menu item).
2. schedule a process for later on the Kodi. I guess cron not will be always there but may be Kodi has this already built-in
3. another end-user scripting language: are there any? Since its all about Python, I started digging into JS to Python and found indeed a tool called py2js which translates even more complex JS libraries(esprima). I developed recently a little macro language, very similar to what 'Network-Automation' did. I am convinced that I can export such blocks to Python, even with real-time feedback. Interface-wise you could edit those blocks even on the Kodi directly. Does such thing would be of any use? I think it would be great to extend your system with such blocks instead of having Addons only.


I'd be happy to hear any thoughts.
And thanks for this great tool!

[Roman_V_M]

1, 2: I guess, if you need more features than Kodi JSON-RPC offers you need to implement a custom back-end as a Python addon which will support your own web/JSON interface and perform another tasks that you need. And here we come to your 3.

3: You don't need to translate JS into Python because it makes no sense. Python is a back-end language meaning that with it you can write a web/REST application that will interact with your web-UI. Python is widely used for programming web back-ends and Kodi is includes a full-featured Python 2.6-2.7 runtime (soon it will be 2.7 on all platforms), so you can use any Python web libraries/frameworks available to write your back-end. I guess you can even use Django with Kodi but it will be a huge overkill I would recommend Bottle. It is a full-featured Python web micro-framework that consists of only 1 file with no external dependencies, so you can drop it into your back-end addon.

You can see a custom back-end/web-UI implementation based on Bottle in my YATP plugin. Especially take a look at wsgi_app.py, wsgi_server.py and server.py modules.

[somebody]

Thanks Roman!

Ok, I will dig deeper then ;-)