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[Feature Request] Universal Search - edrikk - 2013-05-28
Hi,
I posted this in the 'big thread' before the dedicated forum was created, but I thought I'd repost as a proper thread now that we're here.
Currently the user must enter the TV or Movie category when searching for a specific item. However, some articles exist as both TV shows and Movies. In this scenario, searching becomes more tedious.
The request is to provide a means to search (maybe via the main screen, or maybe as an application parameter which dictates type of search? ) across both tv shows as well as movies, and to provide the results in a single data set.
Thanks,
RE: [Feature Request] Universal Search - joethefox - 2013-06-04
Hi, yep but at the moment the app doesn't have an internal db, so until such a kind of API doesn't exists seems that the app will be unable to do an universal search http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=JSON-RPC_API/v6
RE: [Feature Request] Universal Search - edrikk - 2013-06-06
Yes, but wouldn't this be the same as :
- making a call to the tv API getepisodes searching for hits in result set, and storing relevant info in buffer
-Making second call to movies API get movies, searching for hits in result set, and adding the relevant info to buffer
I agree that it's more work on client side without a single API to do the work...
RE: [Feature Request] Universal Search - joethefox - 2013-06-06
yes, this could be a way.
But I love the fact that the remote app is pretty stupid
the app read the API to be called and the parameters from https://github.com/joethefox/Unofficial-Official-XBMC-Remote/blob/master/XBMC%20Remote/AppDelegate.m#L173-2656 and display the results with the https://github.com/joethefox/Unofficial-Official-XBMC-Remote/blob/master/XBMC%20Remote/DetailViewController.m no extra elaborations (apart sorting).
Looking the code, you see some nice way to engage something cool to reach the goal
