Roku Developer Program

[ludwig_benitez]

Hi guys. Thanks for see my question and sorry for my bad english :roll:
I want to know which database types exist for roku. I need to retrieve a data that is in a mysql database.
I have read that I can use xml, I think, do not know. Humbly I welcome your comments. Thanks! :mrgreen:

[EnTerr]

Roku BRS platform has no direct support for any database. Which IMHO is for the better.

Instead, it is the server side that is expected to deal with the DBs. For example, a program ("channel") on Roku can contact your server over http and on receiving back data in XML or JSON form, it can parse them for use. (Well, for the most part: XML parser seems to have major omission; JSON is not complete either. But if you have the freedom to tweak the server response, that may suffice).

[ludwig_benitez]

"EnTerr" wrote:
Roku BRS platform has no direct support for any database. Which IMHO is for the better.

Instead, it is the server side that is expected to deal with the DBs. For example, a program ("channel") on Roku can contact your server over http and on receiving back data in XML or JSON form, it can parse them for use. (Well, for the most part: XML parser seems to have major omission; JSON is not complete either. But if you have the freedom to tweak the server response, that may suffice).

Aaaaah Thanks! EnTerr.
Now I'm searching the info necessary for i can retrieve the data. And sorry for the question again, but you have some material? Or some tutorial to understand more how to work with xml and roku. Please and Thank you very very much! :mrgreen:

[EnTerr]

"ludwig.benitez" wrote:
And sorry for the question again, but you have some material? Or some tutorial to understand more how to work with xml and roku.

Well, there is the documentation http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roXMLElement . Also pointed to snippets in your other question

[ludwig_benitez]

"EnTerr" wrote:
Well, there is the documentation http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roXMLElement . Also pointed to snippets in your other question

Thanks friend, for the help! :mrgreen:

[EnTerr]

PS. By the way, if you have the luxury of being able to choose the format of data exchange between Roku and the server, i recommend JSON over XML. JSON is simpler (everything comes in the form of nested dictionaries and arrays vs XML where you will have to do things like .getText() or elem@attr) and leaner (less network traffic). Often we developers don't have a choice of the exchange format since the back-end already exists and the server factory produces a specific kind of "sausage" (be it in XML or JSON or HTML or binary flavor) and we have to figure out how to consume it. But in another thread you mentioned having to write server side in PHP, so seems you can choose what to send.