[sualfred]

I'm having troubles by accessing images that are created in my addon_data folder. 
For some reasons Kodi won't display them until a reboot of Kodi. They aren't cached too and not listed in the thumbnails folder or in the textures.db

Is the addon_data folder somehow cached? 
For testings I simply copied a dummy test.jpg to that folder and it's also not possible to show it in Kodi.

-> "<texture>E:\Kodi\Kodi Leia\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\script.embuary.helper\img\test.jpg</texture>" -> won't be displayed without a reboot of Kodi
-> "<texture>E:\test.jpg</texture>" -> works

Any way to work around this behaviour?

Code:

python:


def genre_thumb(genre,images):

    filename = genre + '_' + md5hash(images) + '.jpg'

    genre_thumb = os.path.join(ADDON_DATA_IMG_PATH, filename)



    if xbmcvfs.exists(genre_thumb):

        touch_file(genre_thumb)



    else:

        width, height = 356, 533

        cols, rows = 2, 2

        thumbnail_width = int(width / cols)

        thumbnail_height = int(height / rows)

        size = thumbnail_width, thumbnail_height



        ''' copy source posters to addon_data/img/tmp

        '''

        posters = list()

        for poster in images:

            posterfile = images.get(poster)

            temp_filename = genre + '_' + md5hash(posterfile) + '.jpg'

            image = _copyimg(posterfile,ADDON_DATA_IMG_TEMP_PATH,temp_filename)



            if image:

                posters.append(image)



        if not posters:

            return ''



        ''' create collage with copied posteres

        '''

        collage = Image.new('RGB', (width, height), (19,19,19))

        collage_images = []

        for poster in posters:

            try:

                image = ImageOps.fit(poster, (size), method=Image.ANTIALIAS, bleed=0.0, centering=(0.5, 0.5))

                collage_images.append(image)

            except Exception:

                pass



        i, x, y = 0, 0 ,0

        for row in range(rows):

            for col in range(cols):

                try:

                    collage.paste(collage_images,(int(x), int(y)))

                except Exception:

                    pass

                i += 1

                x += thumbnail_width

            y += thumbnail_height

            x = 0



        collage.save(genre_thumb,optimize=True,quality=85)



        ''' delete temporary copied files

        '''

        _deltemp()



    return genre_thumb

Created images in the folder:


Kodi output without a restart:

 

[Lunatixz]

-> "<texture>E:\Kodi\Kodi Leia\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\script.embuary.helper\img\test.jpg</texture>" -> won't be displayed without a reboot of Kodi
-> "<texture>E:\test.jpg</texture>" -> works

Have you tried using "special://" paths instead of local?

[sualfred]

Yep, tried all scenarios. Even image:// with encoded path.

I also have a background service running that is also creating an image (background blurred), that works well. And I've noticed that the issues does not appear if I disable the background blurring. What the f...

[Lunatixz]

Yep, tried all scenarios. Even image:// with encoded path.

I also have a background service running that is also creating an image (background blurred), that works well. And I've noticed that the issues does not appear if I disable the background blurring. What the f...

Odd, what about

xml:
<texture background="true">

[sualfred]

No difference.

As I said, if I simply copy a dummy image to the addon data folder it's also not visible in Kodi without a restart.

[sualfred]

@Lunatixz 

I found the issue.
In my service I have a one time task when the service starts:

python:


    def __init__(self):

        addon_data_cleanup()

        service_start()

        .....



   def addon_data_cleanup(self,number_of_days=60):

        time_in_secs = time.time() - (number_of_days * 24 * 60 * 60)

        dirs, files = xbmcvfs.listdir(ADDON_DATA_IMG_PATH)



        for file in files:

            full_path = os.path.join(ADDON_DATA_IMG_PATH, file)

            stat = xbmcvfs.Stat(full_path)



            if stat.st_mtime() <= time_in_secs:

                xbmcvfs.delete(full_path)

For some reasons this function is "blocking" the folder. Can you tell me why?

[sualfred]

Solved it by using 'os' instead of xbmcvfs. Totally weird, but OK. But it would be interesting to know why xbmcvfs was causing troubles in this scenario.

python:




        for file in os.listdir(ADDON_DATA_IMG_PATH):

            full_path = os.path.join(ADDON_DATA_IMG_PATH, file)

            if os.path.isfile(full_path):

                stat = os.stat(full_path)

                if stat.st_mtime <= time_in_secs:

                    os.remove(full_path)