[mythtv-users] Myth Jabber bot

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Mar 10 16:16:37 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 07:02:22PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Basically, if information /can/ be retrieved from the backend rather 
> than by accessing raw data in the database, it /should/ be retrieved 
> from the backend.  The Perl bindings (and, I'm assuming, the Python 
> bindings) make it possible to send commands to the backend just like any 
> mythfrontend or mythbackend would--i.e. to retrieve a list of 
> recordings, to retrieve a list of upcoming recordings, etc.
> 
> Anyway, again, this is just my opinion (which has developed as I watched 
> scripts like myth.rebuilddatabase.pl and others bitrot during the 
> development of 0.21).

IANAD,E, but I concur with Mike on this: if there's an API, use it for
whatever you can; we (the royal we; I am a developer, just not for
Myth) build those things for a reason...

I see the OP is looking into it; good on him.

Cheers,
-- jra
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