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Hello, I believe I've found a bug, but wondering if this is expected or not, or if there's a workaround.

I pass dates to Kodi listitems via a dictionary:

python:


li.setInfo(media_type,{'date':parsed_date})

The docs state the format needs to be:
date string (d.m.Y / 01.01.2009) - file date

So I have a function that parses an unformatted date I get from outside sources:

python:


try:

    return date_parser.parse(date_in).strftime('%d.%m.%Y')

except:

    return None

The problem is, when I recieve garbage from my outside source, (for example date_in = 'blah'), then when I pass None to setinfo date the logs are spammed with:

python:


ERROR <general>: NEWADDON Invalid Date Format ""

Is there a value I can pass to setinfo that will both be valid and be "None"? Since I can't control the data I receive, I need to have a fallback value to be able to pass.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

can't you simply omit the date when it's invalid?

python:


info = {}

info['title'] = title

info['genre'] = genre

if parsed_date:

    info['date'] = parsed_date



li.setInfo(media_type,info)

(2020-09-13, 00:13)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]can't you simply omit the date when it's invalid?

python:


info = {}

info['title'] = title

info['genre'] = genre

if parsed_date:

    info['date'] = parsed_date



li.setInfo(media_type,info)

Thanks. Yes I could do that, but from a coding standpoint, I pass all info tags in one dict:

python:


li.setInfo(media_type,dict_in.get('info'))

Where dict_in contains a bunch of info tags (roughly 20). This appears to be the only one that complains when it's passed None.

looking at the source-code: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...#L439-L450
kodi will only log the error if the date string isn't 10 characters long.
so try to set it to 10 spaces:

python:
li.setInfo('video', {'date': '          '})