Change selection of files inside a torrent on the fly

[stangri]

Currently the torrent download needs to be stopped, then the selection made and then download to be restarted if you want to select a subset of files in the torrent download.

This is contradictory to other solutions (cough transmission-daemon cough) and is really inconvenient, it cannot even be properly automated by a front end.

Please implement selecting/changing the subset of files to be downloaded within a torrent download "on the fly", without the need to stop it.

[tatsuhiro-t]

Please check out #644
It still first pauses the download, and then restart it, but it can be completely automated.
The restart is automatically done if aria2.changeOption includes options which are previously only applicable to the waiting or paused downloads.

[stangri]

Thanks! I've checked out the code, merged it locally with the dynamic-select-file and ran both configure and make. Do I need to update any of my settings? Or just daemonize this new binary?

[tatsuhiro-t]

No additional settings are required to enable this feature.

[stangri]

Tatsuhiro, I can't get it to work with YAAW. :(

1. How can I confirm if the resulting binary supports this new feature?
2. Have you tested it by manually creating RPC calls or thru some web front-end?

[binux]

Tested, it works.
It may take around 5 seconds to take effect (not fully tested, the size of files / # of connected peers may affect the time)

thanks for the feature!

[binux]

@stangri
The save button is hidden in online demo of YAAW, you can enable it by remove the 'display: none' style.

If you are testing with the disabled options, it will not work, there is a active_task_allowed_options check in yaaw.js, you cannot submit them only by removing the disable attribute.

[tatsuhiro-t]

There is some delay before the restart since aria2 may have to contact a bittorrent tracker. It might be good to add option to faster restart. The default should be conservative.

[tatsuhiro-t]

I tested it with aria2rpc cli script. It is found under doc/xmlrpc directory.

[stangri]

Now that the 1.2.3 is out, could you please instruct me how can I build the most up-to-date version with this patch applied?

[tatsuhiro-t]

I merged master to #644

[stangri]

Cloned and compiled master, still can't get this to work with YAAW. :(

[tatsuhiro-t]

It would be better to ask YAAW dev for this.

[tatsuhiro-t]

Closing since the feature has been implemented and will be available in 1.24.0.