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destruk's avatar
destruk
Streaming Star
9 years ago

ContentNode is missing artist by default :(

Trying to set or retrieve the artist field fails.
The wiki page says "All of the attributes listed in Content Meta-Data[/url:1taltyid][/color] are accessible as fields using dot (.) notation on a ContentNode node object"
Also I see "genre" was renamed to "categories" but "categories" is listed twice in the sdk page, once as an array and once as a string?

Anyway, adding Artist as a custom field for each item works, but as it is standard meta-data for a content node it ought to already be there.
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  • NB_'s avatar
    NB_
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    "destruk" wrote:
    Also I see "genre" was renamed to "categories" but "categories" is listed twice in the sdk page, once as an array and once as a string?

    I myself was perplexed about `Categories` being dual-typed - and while that can fly in SDK1 (duck typing!), RSG is rather narrow-minded about types ("there could be only one!") - so Categories is expected to be an array.

    I can tell you that RAF.setContentGenre() accepts both array of strings or a string (single genre or comma-separated categories). But that's a side note - not up ContentNode's alley.
  • destruk's avatar
    destruk
    Streaming Star
    9 years ago
    Thanks RokuNB!  I did set the categories field using a string and that added it to the array, much like adding director as a string adds it to the directors array, and actor as a string adds it to actors array.
    It's a useful feature, if not innately obvious how it is used.