bpa wrote: > > If JSON feeds are only going to work for a short time - is it worth the > effort ? It would be better to spend time on a more durable solution.
There is now a date: 'May 1st 2018' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mdjyb.xml). An extra year with JSON and the "promise" (however vague) that: > Work is underway in some areas of the BBC with a view to providing a > durable successor to the decommissioned data views, and when the shape > of this work is known, suitable communications will be put in place to > direct the wider technology community towards that successor. > > Until that time, it is possible to offer JSON views of many metadata > aggregations So the suggestion is there that the JSON timescale is intended to lead up to provision of a new access method. But then: > these [JSON] views cannot, unfortunately, include those of TV channel > and radio station schedules, or A-Z or genre and format listings for a > channel or station That sounds like a description of the Extra data... but then it sounds like a description of almost all the ways that programme data could be provided, so I'm wondering what it DOES offer? If it was going to be useful, I had it in mind to look at the feasibility of building a tool that would translate the JSON responses into a data structure that was compatible with that produced by the current XML parser, so it could provide a drop-in replacement. I didn't get very far, unfortunately; I didn't even manage to work out how to get the Perl environment that LMS runs in, with all its CPAN modules, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BobSammers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72709 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
