Json Api help!
Hi, I recently started building a Roku app. I noticed that there are a very limited amount of resources. This forum has been very helpful! I was wondering if you could give me some insight: I am...
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"destruk" wrote:
Good point Belltown -- if the firmware is altered to support Artist for a contentnode, would using the extended class cause a conflict or would adding the extra field this way simply be silently removed so the base class takes precedence?
According to https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Creating+Custom+Components, under Characteristics of Components Extended from Custom Components:
<interface> fields accumulate: the extended component includes all of the interface fields of the component from which it is extended in addition to its own. In the case where an extended component field name is the same as the component from which it is extended, the definition of the extended component field is used, similar to functions.
It would seem to me that there would be no conflict; however, it's the extended component field name rather than the base class field name that takes precedence.
Note - I haven't tried this out yet. It would be an easy experiment to try overriding another existing field and see what happens.
