[mythtv] Backend Services V2

[Peter Bennett]

Hi Stuart

I have converted one method of one service to the new server 
(Video/GetVideo)

The old service on port 6544 has the following problems:

1. The wsdl is incomplete (missing definition of type castmember and 
type genre). After commenting those types in the output I can use the wsdl.

2. "Cast" never gets populated in the output (when it is not commented). 
The code to populate it seems not to have been done.

The new service on port 6744 has the following problems:

1. No wsdl

2. If you invoke with a POST it gives error 405. The old service on 6544 
works with a POST or a GET. The old service only rejects you if you use 
a GET when it wants a POST, not the other way around. I don't know what 
is the approved bahaviour, but I can confirm that I have on occasion 
used a POST when a GET was expected and my application worked fine. If 
this is no longer allowed some people may get an unpleasant surprise.

3. You can call the service using call syntax as follows: 
http://rocinante:6744/Video/GetVideo?Id=9 and it gives a good result. 
However it does not accept SOAP syntax, for example this works on port 
6544 and gives expected results but on port 6744 it gives error 405:

POST http://rocinante:6744/Video HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: "http://mythtv.org/Video/GetVideo"
Content-Length: 281
Host: rocinante:6744
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.5 (Java/11.0.11)


<soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:myt="http://mythtv.org">
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
       <myt:GetVideo>
          <!--Optional:-->
          <myt:Id>9</myt:Id>
       </myt:GetVideo>
    </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I tried commenting out the code that checks for GET (which is creating 
the 405 error), and I then get a 404 error instead of the 405. It seems 
that SOAP request support has not been provided.

Peter.