XML ... def ElementFromURL FORCE version 1 of the framework ?

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I am trying to add an ADDITIONAL header to the URL request (for authentication)



I call:



Mypage = XML.ElementFromURL(url, True, None, {‘Authorization’: ‘Basic bm10Om5tdA==’})



I get an EXCEPTION:



File “…/init.py”, line 320, in ZDF



ZDFpage = XML.ElementFromURL(url, True, None, {‘Authorization’: ‘Basic bm10Om5tdA==’})



TypeError: ElementFromURL() takes at most 2 arguments (4 given)





Q1: Why the exception ? What do I do wrong?



Q2: The encoding DEFAULT value in the def “utf8” … should that not be “utf-8” ?





Here is the DEF as shown in the XML.py file (version 1)



def ElementFromURL(url, isHTML=False, values=None, headers={}, cacheTime=None, encoding=“utf8”, errors=“strict”):





Looking at the VERSION 0 of the XML file, I see this DEF:



def ElementFromURL(url, use_html_parser=False):





ANSWER for Q1 ==> apparently I use VERSION 0 of the framework ==> How do I force to use VERSION 1 ?

2

You need to add the PlexFrameworkVersion key to the Info.plist file & set its value to 1:



<key>PlexFrameworkVersion</key><br />
<string>1</string>


That will cause the media server to start the plug-in using the v1 framework instead of v0. Be warned that there have been many changes to the operation of plug-ins, so you'll probably have to change your existing code to work with v1. If you need any help with it, please post again!

Regarding the encoding, Python treats "utf8" and "utf-8" the same :)
3

Thanks for the feedback, now I have changed the “Info.plist file” within my plug-in bundle.



Now when I run my plug-in I get stuck here :



  # Attempt to import the plug-in module - if debugging is enabled, don't catch exceptions<br />
<br />
  if Debug:<br />
	PMS.Log("(Framework) Next Step 1")<br />
	import Code as _plugin<br />
	PMS.Log("(Framework) Next Step 2")<br />
	PMS.Log("(Framework) Imported plug-in module")


The plug-in log:

(Framework) Bundle verification complete
(Framework) Debugging is enabled
(Framework) Configured framework modules
(Framework) Next Step 1

Looking inside the Plugin.py ... I do not see "Code" being initialized?

Any clues?


Is there a PLUG-IN which uses Version 1 of the framework?
4


There have been quite a few changes to v1 to make things cleaner and easier. You can check Vimeo, Democracy Now, Charlie Rose, The New York Times, and The Sixty One, to name a few.

Good documentation is being worked on as we speak :)