Is there a Limit to VideoClipObjects in an ObjectContainer?

[dsryan]

I'm am a noob to plug-in development and just started out creating a simple plugin that list a bunch of YouTube vids. I am simply creating a VideoClipObject for each one and adding it to an ObjectContainer.

 

oc = ObjectContainer(objects=[], view_group="VidList")
for link in links:
  title = "some title"
  video = VideoClipObject(
    title = title,        
    url = link
  )
  oc.add(video)

This works up to 115 videos but on the 116th one the view won't render. The logs look fine and show nothing wrong, the plugin log finishes with Response: [200] MediaContainer, 423170 bytes BUT on screen I get the the :( The channel is currently unavailable.

 

any ideas, is there a limit or am I hitting something else I'm not aware of.

 

thanks!

[mikedm139]

There is not a limit per se. More likely, the client is timing out while waiting for such a large list to be populated. I would suggest implementing some paging to separate the list into more manageable chunks. The NextPageObject allows you to (relatetively easily) add a call to grab more content and return it as a new page or on some clients allow for continuous scrolling. Here's an example of how it's implemented in the channel for Colbert Report.

[dsryan]

ok thanks, this makes sense and paging the results was going to be the next step anyway so I'll give this a try.

one thing I noticed was that the layout of the container behaves differently on the page the moment I add NextPageObject to the container. It automatically started showing the icons of the VideoClipObject whereas prior it was not. I guess this is by design?

Thanks again!

[mikedm139]

one thing I noticed was that the layout of the container behaves differently on the page the moment I add NextPageObject to the container. It automatically started showing the icons of the VideoClipObject whereas prior it was not. I guess this is by design?

I guess so but, I'm not really clear on the logic behind that sort of behaviour.