First let me preface this by saying that I have absolutely no prior experience in Brightscript or working with XML. I am trying to build a roku app that plays videos given to it by an online XML file managed by my church. Trouble is, I can't seem to get the information from it.
Here is what the XML file looks like (in general):
<ArrayOfMediaModel xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/BlueBridgeIntegration.Models">
<MediaModel>
<Archive_ID>6</Archive_ID>
<Archive_Title>Main</Archive_Title>
<Book>[a biblical book goes here]</Book>
<ChapterVerse>[chapter and verse go here]</ChapterVerse>
<Description>[description goes here]</Description>
<Image_Path>[link to image]</Image_Path>
<Large_Image_Path>[another link to image]</Large_Image_Path>
<MP3>[a true/false statement goes here]</MP3>
<MP4>[a true/false statement goes here]</MP4>
<Media_ID>9212</Media_ID>
<MessageDate>[date goes here]</MessageDate>
<Message_Number>20160622</Message_Number>
<Notes>[a long set of notes goes here]</Notes>
<PDF>[true/false statement]</PDF>
<RTMP_Path>/main/mp4</RTMP_Path>
<Series_ID>111</Series_ID>
<Series_Title>[a title goes here]</Series_Title>
<Spanish_Notes i:nil="true"/>
<Spanish_Title i:nil="true"/>
<Speaker>[a name goes here]</Speaker>
<SubTitle i:nil="true"/>
<Title>[a title goes here]</Title>
<audioFile i:nil="true"/>
<audioFileRTMP i:nil="true"/>
<videoFile i:nil="true"/>
<videoFileRTMP i:nil="true"/>
</MediaModel>
<MediaModel>...</MediaModel>
<MediaModel>...</MediaModel>
<MediaModel>...</MediaModel>
</ArrayOfMediaModel>
And here is the code I'm trying to use to get this information from the file (which, again, is only available online in this context):
sub CreateRecentMenu()
screen = CreateObject("roGridScreen")
port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
xml = CreateObject("roXMLElement")
xml_str = CreateObject("roString")
xml_str = GetXML("[url goes here]")
if xml.Parse(xml_str) then
For Each MediaModel in ArrayOfMediaModel
print "media" 'this is essentially a debugging statement. The Parse() function fails and "failure to parse" prints instead
end For
else
print "failure to parse"
end if
'I have more code beyond this point, but i have it all commented out for the sake of fixing the XML problem
end sub
Function GetXML(url as String) as string
link = CreateObject("roUrlTransfer")
link.setUrl(url)
link.SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
link.InitClientCertificates()
return link.GetToString()
end function
As I stated in the code, the Parse() function fails and the if statement always prints "failure to parse." My attempts to find a solution thus far have proven inadequate and I have tried a few work-arounds, but to no end. As I said, I have no experience and thus I have no idea what the problem could possibly be. Any help pointing out the issue would be greatly, very much appreciated. Thank you.
I AM THE ARCHMAGE... who is also rather new to Brightscript so forgive me for seeming inept at times.
