Discrepancy between CLI and JSON interfaces for XMLBrowser based queries

[mapgccv]

It seems that the JSON interface needs a player ID to execute the items query on any plugin, whilst the CLI does not.
CLI:

news items 0 5
ab%3Acd%3Aef%3A12%3A34%3A28 news items 0 5 title%3ANews id%3A55adb327.0 name%3AFeatured isaudio%3A0 hasitems%3A1 id%3A55adb327.1 name%3ALocal%20Stations%20(1) isaudio%3A0 hasitems%3A1 id%3A55adb327.2 name%3AShows%20(11%2B) isaudio%3A0 hasitems%3A1 id%3A55adb327.3 name%3AStations%20(25%2B) isaudio%3A0 hasitems%3A1 id%3A55adb327.4 name%3AExplore%20News isaudio%3A0 hasitems%3A1 count%3A5

works fine as shown.

JSON:

{"$id":"1","id":1,"method":"slim.request","params":[null,["news","items",  "0","5"]]}

does not work. Whilst:

{"$id":"1","id":1,"method":"slim.request","params":["ab:cd:ef:12:34:28",["news","items",  "0","5"]]}

works correctly.

Is this a bug?

[michaelherger]

What if you passed an empty string rather than null as the device id?

[mapgccv]

Works fine indeed, my mistake. Sorry for this.

[mapgccv]

Nevermind, apologies again, I had tried with favorites and it was working fine. But anything else, e.g.:

{"$id":"1","id":1,"method":"slim.request","params":["",["news","items",  "0","5"]]}

does not, and actually gives the message:

The requested URL can't be reached

The service might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

The response status is empty. It means that the successful connection wasn't made. Check your request parameters.

[michaelherger]

Oh well... send a client id :-)

[mapgccv]

So I shall :)
Thanks, just thought it's a curious discrepancy...