Problem with ObjectContainer titles and pagination

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So I’m writing a channel for my favorite Anime streaming website.

Currently I just wanna get a paginated list from their REST API which works, I get a list of 50 entries and I’m creating TVShowObjects for every Anime and after going through the loop I create a NextPageObject which also works fine. The only thing that is messed up are the titles when I get to the second or third page and I can’t find a way to fix this issue, here is my code:

@handler(PREFIX, TITLE, art=ART, thumb=ICON)
def MainMenu():
  oc = ObjectContainer()

  oc.add(DirectoryObject(key=Callback(ShowEntryList, title=L("Anime"), medium="animeseries"), title=L("Anime")))

  return oc

@route(PREFIX + '/showentrylist', page=int)
def ShowEntryList(title, medium = 'animeseries', page = 0):
  oc = ObjectContainer(title2 = title)

  url = # the url
  values = { 'api_key' : WebsiteAPIKey, 'kat' : 'anime', 'medium' : medium, 'limit' : '50', 'p' : page }
  animes = JSON.ObjectFromURL(url, values)

  for anime in animes['data']:
    # unimportant stuff

    oc.add(TVShowObject(
      # unimportant stuff
    ))

  oc.add(NextPageObject(
    key = Callback(ShowEntryList, title = L("Page ") + str(page + 2), medium = medium, page = page + 1),
    title = L("Next Page")
  ))

  return oc

So when I select my channel, the title above shows Channel Name which is what I want, then I select the entry Anime and the title shows Channel Name and Anime, just like I defined it, no problem. But now I select the Next Page entry at the bottom and now it says Anime and Page 2, which is exactly what I want, but when I select Next Page again, it shows Page 2 and Page 3 in the title which is not what I want, how can I fix this?

It seems like every time I select a new page, the ObjectContainer changes title2 to title1 and then it’s all messed up…

2

Plex clients are inconsistent with how they use the title1/title2 property. (and many other things when it comes to channels).

Plex Web ignores the title1 property if you manually set it. It just takes the title2 of the previous container to be the title1 of the next one. So it’s impossible to get what you want.

In Plex Media Player if you set a title1 it will always use it.

ObjectContainer(title1='Anime', title2='Page {}'.format(page + 1))
3

Oh alright that’s good to know thank you!