[t0mm0]

hi!

I'm unfamiliar with Git, but once I get closer to being satisfied I'll get in contact with you and figure out how it works.

i'm not a git expert either but there's plenty of good docs on github and i'm finding the tools a nice way to collaborate.

Thanks for the extensive explanation, I feel like a lot of the fog has just lifted from my eyes.

I am aware that the urlresolver is alpha/beta software and not released yet, so I expect some changes to affect the plugins I have / will write. Hopefully it will be fairly easy to adapt to.

absolutely (and of course the docs will be updated). it's good to have people looking at it before it becomes 'stable' and released because you will probably find stuff that is silly and should be changed. since starting to write the letmewatchthis addon i've already started thinking about ways to make it easier.....

Just some thoughts I had...

As I'm a big fan of the icefilms plugin I was wondering if the urlresolver could include a feature to bookmark links for later viewing like icefilms can, or would that be out of scope?

i don't know if you have read anarchintosh's document that inspired this effort, but basically the original idea was to build a bunch of specialised modules to do different things that could be reused across addons. i started off just saying i would try to implement the resolving bit, though i have also added the generic stuff in t0mm0.common in the process

i'm afraid i am not much of a power user when it comes to xbmc (i spend much more time playing with the code than actually using it!) so i am not really familiar with all these features so not sure i could comment on whether that stuff should be added to t0mm0.common at the moment (it's definitely not urlresolver territory). maybe if someone could define exactly what the feature is and roughly how it works we would be able to make a decision on where to put it.

Another idea I had was to build a scraper functions for anonymous proxies to use in plugins, some sites will only allow you to stream from them if your within a specific region. I was thinking that it could be an xml option to "enable anonymous proxy" and "select country" and the feature would scrape the anon proxy sites and do a "head" to eg. google, to detect a working proxy. This would be nice to have in the t0mm0.common.net class to be available to all plugins.

i think i like this idea
maybe this could be done in urlresolver, the settings interface could be expanded to add a call to set the preferred country for your plugin? then users could enable the proxy and/or set a custom one instead of an auto-detected one (if they know of a stable proxy in the right country) in each plugins settings. the actual code could probably go in t0mm0.common.net so it is available to addons that don't use urlresolver.

what do you think?

i also want to add decent caching support to t0mm0.common.net as most of the time when browsing show or movie listings the listings remain unchanged so fetching a new copy is pointless.

(also maybe we should come up with a better naming scheme for these modules - any ideas on that front are welcome!)

I'm going to have to stop writing now as I have to order plane tickets and book a hotel as I'm leaving tomorrow morning for a business trip

Thanks for the help so far I hope I can put it to good use

no problem! i hope you find this stuff useful and end up contributing code back to the project

t0mm0