plex_collectionless including items that are in collections

[dstufft]

Version Number

1.19.0

What branch are you on?

master

Describe the Bug

I have my plex_collectionless setup, and in general it is working fine. However I've noticed that some movies get added to my collectionless collection, even though they are inside of collections that should not be excluded. It has appeared (thus far) to be pretty random which movies it affected. I would run into cases where the same Collection would have some movies added to the collectionless collection and some wouldn't.

I've done a bit of debugging, and I think I've got a reasonable handle on why these particular movies are affected but others are not.

What I've done is drop some debugging into this area https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/blob/3bf1c25990a0eee9e1c907e516795fd8a92b0afb/modules/plex.py#L1057-L1066

To see exactly what collections were in the collection_indexes and what collections were in item.collections to figure out what was going on, and what I've seen is that item.collections only returns the first two collections (in order of the collection tags in the item's individual tags), and any other collections are truncated.

So for example, in my case the "Black Panther" collection has the "Black Panther" movie. The collection_indexes contains "black panther", but when I look at item.collections I only see entries for two collections, "Marvel Cinematic Universe", and "All Movies".

Looking at Black Panther's collection tags, I see this:

And if I reorder them so Black Panther comes first, then item.collections still contains only two collections, but one of those includes the Black Panther collection, and everything works as expected.

I saw that it appeared that PMM was using the Python plexpai project to query Plex, so I did try doing the same thing with plexapi directly, and they seem to have similar behavior:

from plexapi.server import PlexServer
plex = PlexServer(...)
movie = plex.library.section("Movies").search(title="Black Panther")[0]
print(movie.collections)

Prints out the same two collections, and misses the other 3.

However, if I change that to instead say:

from plexapi.server import PlexServer
plex = PlexServer(...)
movie = plex.library.section("Movies").search(title="Black Panther")[0]
movie.reload()
print(movie.collections)

Then I get all 5 collections as expected, however it appears that while PMM is using plexapi, it's manually constructing the queries, so I'm not sure how to convert that to what PMM is doing.

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[meisnate12]

so this should already be address in nightly im reloading the item just before i pull its collections can you confirm if youre still having the issue