[mythtv-users] Notice to Schedules Direct users

[Ozzy Lash]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
> > On 17/10/14 17:02, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Personally I'd never use a third party app that even inserted data
> >>> into the existing mythconverg tables, let alone one that did stuff
> >>> like adding tables
> >>
> >> The current version of the grabber creates its own database.
> >>
> >
> > I'm curious :) So how does that data then get into the myth database
> > so it can use it?
> >
> > Paul H.
> >
> Precisely...If listings are showing up, then it must be inserting /
> updating the mythconverg database in addition to whatever it might be
> doing in it's own.
>
> Like I said, count me out until there's some official means of using
> the JSON service.
>
> Tom
>

If I understand correctly:

Originally the JSON grabber modified the schema of a few tables in the
mythconverg database, and also added its own set of tables to the
mythconverg database.  There were concerns that modifying the schema of the
tables might cause upgrade issues (which seemed reasonable to me).  Robert
K made a change so the schema of all existing tables remained the same, but
still created tables under the mythconverg database for the JSON grabber.
There will still concerns that that could break upgrades (this seemed
fairly unlikely to me, but you never can tell).  Now it sounds like Robert
K is creating a separate database for the tables needed by the JSON grabber.

Of course you are correct that data will be added in the existing table for
the listings, but the chance for that to break an upgrade of mythtv should
be gone.  It should also mean that if the JSON grabber doesn't work
correctly, that you should be able to switch back to the data direct
grabber without worrying that there are things left over in the db that you
need to fix.

Thanks Robert!

Bill
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