Looking for a way to get kodi pictures through the API
#1
Hi all

I'm looking for a way to display pictures (png/jpg) in a table in a angularJS open source remote.
The remote: https://github.com/gabriel-detassigny/kodi-angular

There's lists created already in the remote and I wanted to use the code structure to create a simular list for pictures.
However, I can't seem to find the proper methods on: http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6 to do the trick.

There's some working code for Music, taken from the remote:
Code:
artists: function(artistNum, size) {
      var deferred = $q.defer();
      KodiWS.send('AudioLibrary.GetArtists', { properties: ['genre'], sort: { method: 'artist' }, limits: { start: artistNum, end: artistNum + size }}).then(function(data) {
        deferred.resolve(data);
      });
      return deferred.promise;
    },

However, I'm not finding any examples for Pictures here: http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/Examp..._libraries.
Or anywhere else... Tried to achieve something simular via the http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6#Fi...ileDetails method, but alas, no success.

So yeah, if anyone could offer any pointers here, that would be just great.

Thanks in advance.
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#2
Just use the thumbnail property or the art property:

Code:
"properties": ["genre","art","thumbnail"]
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#3
Hi there

I'm sorry, I was out for 2 weeks. (conference)

I'm looking for a corresponding method that's listed here: http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6

Do you find any in that list that is the equivalent of this thumbnail or genre property?
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#4
Some extra info on what I'm trying to achieve really:

There's an easy way to retrieve all movies or all artists, genres, songs.
They are all part of the http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6#AudioLibrary or the http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6#VideoLibrary.

What I want is to retrieve all pictures (png, jpg, whatever i don't even care at this point.
But there is no PictureLibrary and I don't find any corresponding methods in the http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6 API documentation.

Any help would be much appreciated Smile
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#5
The more I look into this, the more I'm believing there's just no method or function available for this in the JSON-RPC_API

edit: Maybe there's a method to list all files, items, whatever in one specific folder then?
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#6
Exactly what pictures are you trying to get, Give some context..
Yes there is not a image library but there can be image sources, or do you want pictures from your video library? audio library? pictures in picture plugin?
This is all possible.
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#7
Just images that are nothing more than a png or jpg image.
They are stored on a SD card in the raspberry in a specific folder.
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#8
You want a way of using angularJS to search a filesystem for a particular type of file? A file that may or may not be used by Kodi?

That doesn't sound like a Kodi development question. Sorry I can't be more helpful but I don't know anything about the capabilities of angularJS.

If you must use kodi json-rpc then use recursive calls to GetDirectory.

If angularJS can call a bash script then look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16758...-with-find
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