Dynamic <content> URLs

[phikai]

I'm working on an app that delivers a different content URL to each user based on some authentication that takes place.

Any thoughts/suggestions on how to do it?

<content url="SOMETHING DYNAMIC??">
<onclick lang="python"><![CDATA[
python.pythonsscript()
]]></onclick>
</content>

Any help/thoughts would be good.

[viljoviitanen]

I'm not sure if I understand what you're asking.. but you don't need to set content at all in skin xml, just do it in python after you've authenticated.

If you have a list to populate, it's like this:

list = mc.GetWindow(14000).GetList(100)
itemList = mc.ListItems()

#repeat the following in some loop
item = mc.ListItem( mc.ListItem.MEDIA_UNKNOWN )
item.SetPath("whatever")
item.SetLabel("Whatever")
#..and anything else you need to set on items
itemList.append(item)

#then finally..
list.SetItems(itemList)

[phikai]

Does that make the <content> tag in the XML part of the app optional? I don't need to even have it?

[viljoviitanen]

Does that make the <content> tag in the XML part of the app optional? I don't need to even have it?

It's optional in the sense you can set content without it via python. But if you need custom onclick actions, that's where you set them.

In my app (which uses the code in the above post) it's like this:

            <content type="action">
            <onclick lang="python"><![CDATA[
tb.load(14000)
]]></onclick>
            </content>

tb is the my code module. I use the same "load" function for many windows and that's way the window id is parameter. I could probably have used some getactivewindow method in the code but this is the way I did it.

[phikai]

Thanks for the help on this, really helped me figure it out. Now i'm having trouble getting my onclick to execute. It's just popping up the action dialog and doesn't seem to be doing anything with this block...

I had a mc.LogDebug("test") at the top of this block just to see if that ever happened and it didn't...I'm wondering if it's some type of issue with the properties I've given the items...

<onclick lang="python"><![CDATA[
list = mc.GetActiveWindow().GetList(100)
listitems = list.GetItems()
listitem = listitems[list.GetFocusedItem()]
params = mc.Parameters()
params["link"] = str(listitem.GetPath())
params["isLocal"] = str(listitem.GetProperty("isLocal"))
linktype = params["link"].split('://')
if (linktype[0] == "rss"):
	servers.doRootBrowse(httpPrefix(params["link"]), params["isLocal"])
elif (linktype[0] == "browse"):
	servers.doRootBrowse(httpPrefix(params["link"]), params["isLocal"])
elif (linktype[0] == "folder"):
	servers.doFolderBrowse(httpPrefix(params["link"]))
else:
	myTracker.trackEvent("Event", "Play", listitem.GetProperty("event"))
	mc.GetPlayer().Play(listitem)
]]></onclick>

I'm only setting a few properties for the items as this is a menu to then execute another Get request to build a new list of items...

					
item = mc.ListItem(mc.ListItem.MEDIA_UNKNOWN)
item.SetProperty("isLocal", "false")
item.SetPath(rssPrefix(str(ramp.externaluri.contents[0])))
item.SetLabel(str(ramp.endpointname.contents[0]))
item.SetThumbnail('server_thumb.png')

Any thoughts on that would be great...

[phikai]

Hmm...looks like it's cause I didn't specify "action" in my content tag is why this wasn't working properly.