Using xml from remote server
Hi all, I am trying to understand and alter the sample code from the "videolist" example. I want to change it so it gets the xml video listing from my own remote server rather than having it hard c...
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"keeptalking" wrote:
I am using this example:
https://sdkdocs.roku.com/download/attac ... 629&api=v2
Good grief, yet another copy of that - but slightly different. Why are RokuCo's examples such a mess?!
Why are there multiple copies in multiple places - how is one to know which is what, where is the consistency, where is a "catalog" to pick and choose?
keeptalking - look inside videoContentReader.xml of "your" zip:
' uncomment/conditionalize for development package XML transfers (pkg:/server/foo.xml)'
xmlstring = ReadAsciiFile(m.top.videocontenturi)
videocontentxml.parse(xmlstring)
' uncomment/conditionalize for published channel Internet XML transfers (http://serverdomain/foo.xml)'
' readInternet = createObject("roUrlTransfer")'
' readInternet.setUrl(m.top.foocontentxmluri)'
' foocontentxml.parse(readInternet.GetToString())'
Comment out the first part, un-comment the 2nd.
Oh, and change foocontentxml -> videocontentxml, foocontentxmluri -> videocontenturi
Oh, and it's up to you to add code to check if the URL xfer has failed.
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