Adding tracks to the collection

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> 2008/10/21 Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Max,
>>>> I'd like to be able to give scripts access to insert or update tracks
>>>> into the local sql collection database. My primary reason for doing
>>>> this is to workaround numerous issues within QtScript combined with
>>>> QtSql. Essentially, I'd like to be able to do something to the effect
>>>> of sqlCollection()->insertTrack( url ); and add associated statistical
>>>> data to that track (playcount, score etc).
>>>>
>>>> What is your opinion on exposing this sort of functionality? If you're
>>>> okay with that, what would be the best implementation?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Seb
>>>
>>> I really can't imagine any other script ever needing to do this. So to me
>>> that means either you should rethink having it be a script at all or it
>>> means that you shouldn't worry about making the API clean, since its
>>> essentially an internal API. So do whatever makes implementation easy.
>>
>> Sure, perhaps not, unless we want to allow third part scripts to build
>> collections (bad idea perhaps). Eg, importers from arbitrary (iTunes,
>> rythymbox collections etc)
>
> Actually I think enabling this is a very cool idea. :)
>
>> The QtScript bindings that we have don't expose the Meta objects to scripts.
>
> This isn't true. They are available via the playlist manipulation
> stuff. You can even edit tags. Collections aren't really exposed at
> all though.
>
Why aren't they then? Given that they are a core part of A2, it makes
sense to allow scripts to work with collections, querymakers and meta
objects imo. I'm not sure if any of those are scriptable yet, but are
there technical reasons that prevent us from doing that (like Meta
objects not being QObjects, or reference counting of meta objects)?

Max