2015-02-25, 02:29
Hi germano,
thank you for letting me know! Yep: the first version of the plugin was written using the regexp approach; although it is an approach that, in general, works pretty good, is usually more prone to errors during the parsing and that was the reason for which, following also some suggestions from other fellows, I preferred to switch from the regexp approach to beautifulsoap html/dom parser.
I tested the plugin on a RaspPi B (not the plus one) and I noticed that it performs very slow while it performs at reasonable loading time on the other mediacenter (an Atom Dual Core).
At this point, we have two suitable ways:
- Keep the plugin "safe" and continue using beautifulsoup library, accepting the tradeoff in loading time;
- Re-convert the plugin to use regexp getting rid of the beautifulsoap library, accepting the risk of errors during the website scraping.
I still have the old regexp version and could commit it in a very short time, but I would avoid this way.
Other feedbacks are more than welcome.
P.S.: I am planning to rewrite the whole plugin code together with the Real Time TV plugin to make them more modular and enable an easy integration with other mediacenter software plus other benefits in code maintenance and refactoring. Stay tuned.
thank you for letting me know! Yep: the first version of the plugin was written using the regexp approach; although it is an approach that, in general, works pretty good, is usually more prone to errors during the parsing and that was the reason for which, following also some suggestions from other fellows, I preferred to switch from the regexp approach to beautifulsoap html/dom parser.
I tested the plugin on a RaspPi B (not the plus one) and I noticed that it performs very slow while it performs at reasonable loading time on the other mediacenter (an Atom Dual Core).
At this point, we have two suitable ways:
- Keep the plugin "safe" and continue using beautifulsoup library, accepting the tradeoff in loading time;
- Re-convert the plugin to use regexp getting rid of the beautifulsoap library, accepting the risk of errors during the website scraping.
I still have the old regexp version and could commit it in a very short time, but I would avoid this way.
Other feedbacks are more than welcome.
P.S.: I am planning to rewrite the whole plugin code together with the Real Time TV plugin to make them more modular and enable an easy integration with other mediacenter software plus other benefits in code maintenance and refactoring. Stay tuned.
