Add listitem.episode and listitem.premiered to List view for Addons

[jingai]

Show the Episode Number and Air Date of items for addons.

[jingai]

See something like the Tekzilla show in the Revision3 addon in Confluence's 'Media Info' view for an example of this.

[MacGyverr]

The issue is that Kodi creates the episode info straight into the ListItem.Label, you can create a similar view by piecing it together from elements, but it requires a lot of conditionals.

[jingai]

Yeah, I remembered this after I looked at it again the other day.. I would like to offer more views and information for addons, but it's seriously difficult to test all of the conditions since all addons seem to provide similar content in different ways..

[MacGyverr]

Maybe some conditional variables could work their magic. You know what I mean, build one view, and just define the labels and textures separate. The code is smaller, and allows for adding new elements quicker. (no rewrites for every new thing)

[jingai]

Aye, I'll be looking at it closely since I want to make the data displayed as uniform as possible across all views anyway.

[jingai]

Really this whole problem would go away if addon developers would just flag their freaking content correctly..

[jingai]

Pushing this off.. I know Confluence has workarounds in place for this, but I really think these kinds of workarounds belong in the addons (i.e., setting the current content type correctly). Not going to close the issue.. but I'd rather not prioritize it either since it really feels like a Not My Problem kind of thing.

[jingai]

To add to this, look at the YouTube addon as an example of one that does it correctly.

[jingai]

Ok, I caved. It will show the episode on the list item now, but.. there are now some shows within addons that set both season and episode to 1 (or some arbitrary value) for everything.. so prepare for that backlash I guess.

Fix it for some and break it for others.. ultimately though, this is up to the addon authors to deal with. The way I'm handling it now is proper.

Reports of superfluous and incorrect season/episode numbers on the items I can at least now just pass the buck to the addon author.