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In my addon, I have to save a username and password for a external service. To do this, I read about xbmcaddon.Addon().setSetting(). I attempted to use this, but it didn't appear to save. Additionally no folder for my plugin was created in the userdata > addon_data folder. When I debug with getSetting() it returns a blank output.

For reference, here is the code I'm using:

python:


addon = xbmcaddon.Addon()

addon.setSetting('password', str(password))

addon.getSetting('password')

Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

[Roman_V_M]

In Leia addon settings system has been reworked, and it seems that you can no longer store settings that do not have their corresponding widgets in settings.xml.

[Martijn]

That sounds like a bug that needs to be fixed imo

[ronie]

if you want to use the addon settings system, you need to ship a settings.xml file with your addon.

a dummy file like this should be good enough:

xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<settings></settings>

this is not related to the recent settings changes, it's always worked like that ;-)

[RedactedRetracted]

if you want to use the addon settings system, you need to ship a settings.xml file with your addon.

a dummy file like this should be good enough:

xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<settings></settings>

this is not related to the recent settings changes, it's always worked like that ;-)

Sure enough, it works now. Thanks a heap!

[Martijn]

Sounds a bit silly that we need to ship an empty file cause by using the API it's incapable of creating it