Hi Mythtics,
I've looked in the code and it's way beyond me so hopefully someone can
help me fix this:
I get listings from tv_grab_zz_sdjson and that has credits in billing
order. I use that and a bit of a database hack in an attempt to list the
actors in a tv progam in billing order. Most of the time it works but I
noticed this today.
XML from tv_grab_zz_sdjson:
<programme start="20181225232000 +0000" stop="20181226014500 +0000"
channel="48020">
<title>The Silence of the Lambs</title>
<desc>Multi-Oscar-winning thriller about a trainee female FBI agent
.....</desc>
<credits>
<director>Jonathan Demme</director>
<actor role="Clarice Starling">Jodie Foster</actor>
<actor role="Dr. Hannibal Lecter">Anthony Hopkins</actor>
<actor role="Jack Crawford">Scott Glenn</actor>
<actor role="Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb">Ted Levine</actor>
<actor role="Dr. Frederick Chilton">Anthony Heald</actor>
<actor role="Catherine Martin">Brooke Smith</actor>
<actor role="Senator Ruth Martin">Diane Baker</actor>
<actor role="Ardelia Mapp">Kasi Lemmons</actor>
<actor role="Lt. Boyle">Charles Napier</actor>
<actor role="FBI Director Hayden Burke">Roger Corman</actor>
<actor role="FBI Agent in Memphis">George A. Romero</actor>
<writer>Thomas Harris</writer>
<writer>Ted Tally</writer>
<producer>Grace Blake</producer>
<producer>Ron Bozman</producer>
<producer>Gary Goetzman</producer>
<producer>Edward Saxon</producer>
<producer>Kenneth Utt</producer>
</credits>
<date>1991</date>
<category>Thriller</category>
<category>Crime drama</category>
.....
That looks fine but my daily email has this:
The Silence of the Lambs (ITV4 Thriller film 1991 100%)
Charles Napier, Roger Corman, George A. Romero, Kasi Lemmons,
Brooke Smith
Multi-Oscar-winning thriller about a trainee female FBI agent who is
seconded to the hunt for a horrific serial killer. For insight into
the
workings of his diseased mind she turns to the psychotic yet urbane
Dr
Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, with whom she forms a compelling and
dangerous relationship.
The hack I use to try to get a list of actors in order is this SQL:
"alter table credits add column localrank int auto_increment primary
key;"
I do this before fetching the listings, generate my list of new programs
into an email and then remove the localrank column so the credits table
is restored to standard format.
The SQL to extract program data is this:
"select localrank, role, name from credits, people where credits.person
= people.person and chanid = $chanid and starttime =
from_unixtime($unix_st) order by localrank;"
and I get this:
localrank role name
162737 writer Thomas Harris
162738 producer Gary Goetzman
162739 producer Ron Bozman
162740 producer Grace Blake
162741 producer Kenneth Utt
162742 producer Edward Saxon
162743 actor Charles Napier
162744 actor Roger Corman
162745 writer Ted Tally
162746 actor George A. Romero
162747 actor Kasi Lemmons
162748 actor Brooke Smith
162749 actor Anthony Hopkins
162750 actor Scott Glenn
162751 director Jonathan Demme
162752 actor Jodie Foster
162753 actor Diane Baker
162754 actor Ted Levine
162755 actor Anthony Heald
As you can see localrank is an incrementing integer but those actor
names are not in the order they came from the XML. I can only think that
mythfilldatabase is adding the credits from XMLTV to a internal buffer
in some way that does not preserve order before sending to the database.
Is it possible to fix this? I don't care if mythfilldatabase takes
longer to run and a patch will do if a real fix would be problematic.
BTW the credits on mythfrontend are not in order, I'm not worried about
that as it includes all the credits but my email only lists the first
five and having them in billing order makes it easy to spot interesting
films.
Cheers,
Tim.