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ActivateWindow to "subdirectories?" - dingerjunkie - 2014-02-16
Hello All,
Okay, I've been experimenting with window access/navigation via JSON RPC calls and am having a bit of difficulty with an item mentioned in the wiki.
For the record, v6 (Frodo).
Access to the "parent directory" for videos is working when I use...
jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"GUI.ActivateWindow","params":{"window":"videos"},"id":"1"}}
...however, I can't seem to directly navigate to my Movies or TV Shows pages.
At http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Opening_Windows_and_Dialogs , The wiki states I should use something like...
ActivateWindow(Videos,MovieTitles)
...but attempting this in my call has failed. I've tried the following variants:
jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"GUI.ActivateWindow","params":{"window":"videos,movietitles"},"id":"1"}}
jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"GUI.ActivateWindow","params":{"window":"videos","movietitles"},"id":"1"}}
Both fail, stating that "movietitles" is not a recognized enumerator.
So, how to I get this to work? How do I directly navigate to either the Movies or the TV Shows via a JSON RPC call?
RE: ActivateWindow to "subdirectories?" - Montellese - 2014-02-16
The "window" is still "videos" but you can provide additional parameters using the "parameters" parameter so something like this should work:
Code:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"GUI.ActivateWindow","params":{"window":"videos", "parameters": "movietitles"},"id":"1"}}RE: ActivateWindow to "subdirectories?" - dingerjunkie - 2014-02-17
Thanks, Montellese.
...getting closer, hopefully.
current response to your suggestion:
{"error":{"code":-32602,"data":{"method":"GUI.ActivateWindow","stack":{"message":"Invalid type string received","name":"parameters","type":"array"}},"message":"Invalid params."},"id":"1","jsonrpc":"2.0"}
I just need to figure out the proper way to pass in the string as an element in an array of values and I'll be good.
RE: ActivateWindow to "subdirectories?" - Montellese - 2014-02-17
(2014-02-17, 00:13)dingerjunkie Wrote: Thanks, Montellese.
...getting closer, hopefully.
current response to your suggestion:
{"error":{"code":-32602,"data":{"method":"GUI.ActivateWindow","stack":{"message":"Invalid type string received","name":"parameters","type":"array"}},"message":"Invalid params."},"id":"1","jsonrpc":"2.0"}
I just need to figure out the proper way to pass in the string as an element in an array of values and I'll be good.
Ah sorry I didn't see that you are using Frodo. In the nightly builds and the next stable release the request I posted will work. In Frodo you need to use
Code:
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "GUI.ActivateWindow", "params": { "window":"videos", "parameters": [ "movietitles" ] }, "id": "1"} }PS: It won't hurt if you read a bit about JSON, JSON schema and JSON-RPC. Then you'd know how to put together an array of values.
RE: ActivateWindow to "subdirectories?" - dingerjunkie - 2014-02-17
Greatly appreciated, Montellese. I am in the beginning stages of my self-teaching, so this early guidance is a huge help.