Roku Developer Program

[fischb0ne]

I am creating my first Roku channel and I am getting a "can't parse feed" error when trying to play my channel. I have checked the xml and there doesn't seem to be an error in those files. What could be my problem?

Here is the error code:

BrightScript Debugger> ------ Running ------
created feed connection for http://www.godaddy.com/Roku/xml/categories.xml
url: http://www.godaddy.com/Roku/xml/categories.xml
Took: 472ms
Can't parse feed
Current Function:
034: Function get_category_names(categories As Object) As Dynamic
035:
036:     categoryNames = CreateObject("roArray", 100, true)
037:
038:     for each category in categories.kids
039:         'print category.Title
040:         categoryNames.Push(category.Title)
041:     next
042:
043:     return categoryNames
044:
045: End Function
216: BrightScript Debugger> ------ Running ------
217: created feed connection for http://www.godaddy.com/Roku/xml/categories.xml
218: Can't parse feed
219: Current Function:
220: 035:
221: 037:
222: 039:         'print category.Title
223: 042:
224: 044:
225: Syntax Error. (runtime error &h02) in .../pkg:/source/categoryFeed.brs(38)
226: Backtrace:
227: Function get_category_names(categories As <uninitialized>) As
228:    file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPD.../pkg:/source/categoryFeed.brs(38)
229: Function initcategorylist() As
230:    file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPDz98/pkg:/source/appHomeScreen.brs(112)
231: Function showhomescreen(screen As ) As Integer
232:    file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPDz98/pkg:/source/appHomeScreen.brs(39)
233: Function main() As
234:    file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPDz98/pkg:/source/appMain.brs(20)
235: Local Variables:
236: categories &h0010 bsc:roInvalid, refcnt=1
237: global   &h0020 rotINTERFACE:ifGlobal
238: m        &h0010 bsc:roAssociativeArray, refcnt=3
239: categorynames &h0010 bsc:roArray, refcnt=1
240: category &h0000 <uninitialized> val:Uninitialized
241: BrightScript Debugger>
Syntax Error. (runtime error &h02) in .../pkg:/source/categoryFeed.brs(38)

038:     for each category in categories.kids
Backtrace:
Function get_category_names(categories As <uninitialized>) As
   file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPD.../pkg:/source/categoryFeed.brs(38)
Function initcategorylist() As
   file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPDz98/pkg:/source/appHomeScreen.brs(112)
Function showhomescreen(screen As ) As Integer
   file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPDz98/pkg:/source/appHomeScreen.brs(39)
Function main() As
   file/line: /tmp/plugin/KCAAAATPDz98/pkg:/source/appMain.brs(20)

Local Variables:
categories &h0010 bsc:roInvalid, refcnt=1
global   &h0020 rotINTERFACE:ifGlobal
m        &h0010 bsc:roAssociativeArray, refcnt=3
categorynames &h0010 bsc:roArray, refcnt=1
category &h0000 <uninitialized> val:Uninitialized
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[b14d3]

Could you post the XML? Also, how did you test the XML?

[fischb0ne]

"b14d3" wrote:
Could you post the XML? Also, how did you test the XML?

Sure! I am doing a practice one so it isn't very big. I used the w3schools validator. Thanks for your help! 🙂

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<categories>

	  <!-- banner_ad: optional element which displays an at the top level category screen -->
	  <banner_ad sd_img="http://rokudev.roku.com/rokudev/examples/videoplayer/images/missing.png" hd_img="http://rokudev.roku.com/rokudev/examples/videoplayer/images/missing.png"/>
	  
	<category title="Marine Mammals" description="Streaming Video of Marine Mammals" sd_img="http://godaddy.com/Roku/AttitudeSD.jpg" hd_img="http://godaddy.com/Roku/AttitudeHD.jpg">
		<categoryLeaf title="Harbor Seal" description="" feed="http://godaddy.com/Roku/xml/themind.xml"/>
	</category>
	</categories>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<feed>
	<!-- resultLength indicates the total number of results for this feed -->
	<resultLength>2</resultLength>
	<!-- endIndix  indicates the number of results for this *paged* section of the feed -->
	<endIndex>2</endIndex>
	  <item sdImg="http://godaddy.com/Roku/AttitudeSD.jpg" hdImg="http://godaddy.com/Roku/AttitudeHD.jpg"> 
        <title>Harbor Seal</title> 
        <contentId>10001</contentId> 
        <contentType>Talk</contentType> 
        <contentQuality>SD</contentQuality> 
        <streamFormat>mp4</streamFormat> 
        <media> 
            <streamQuality>SD</streamQuality> 
            <streamBitrate>1500</streamBitrate> 
            <streamUrl>http://www.godaddy.com.com/Roku/HarborSealVisit.mp4</streamUrl>
        </media> 
        <synopsis>Lets have some fun streaming video to our Roku player from our own channel</synopsis> 
        <genres>Clip</genres> 
        <runtime>1260</runtime> 
    </item>    
</feed>

[b14d3]

I'm not super good at this, but here it goes:

The url, http://www.godaddy.com/Roku/xml/categories.xml just looks like it redirects me to their homepage. Are you sure that URL is right?

[fischb0ne]

OMG I'm such a dumbass! I had the link pointing to the wrong area! Thanks for your help! 🙂

[b14d3]

It's definitely a learning process. Glad I was able to help 🙂