Socket io api browseLibrary

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Have anyone used the browseLibrary function in the socket-io api?
The syntax is browseLibrary objBrowseParameters, but it is not clear to me from the documentation what the form of objBrowseParameters should be.

I have tried this command:

socket.emit(‘browseLibrary’, {
“uri”: “radio/selection” });

This is the response, not quite what I expected.

{ navigation: { lists: [ [Object] ], prev: { uri: ‘radio’ } } }

It works fine as a Rest command, but I would prefer to use SocketIO to browse the radio selection.

Regards,

David

2

To me that looks fine, but it really comes down to the language you use and how the socket.io library is implemented in that language. I initially had a lot proplems with kotlin and the socket.io implementation for Android, but it was all because i did not look at the implementation of the library more carefully.

This is good tool for testing the API.

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It is fine, but of course you need to explode the object inside list.
To see the content, just print data.navigation.lists

4

Thank for the link Joni, I will have a play. I am using node.js, though previously I used Python.

5

Ah ok… I did wonder that. I am a C/C++ person so json and node.js is new to me. :slight_smile:

Thank you for coming back to me. I will play further.

Regards,

David

6

Yep… it works!

ask browse library
Browse Library
{
availableListViews: [ ‘list’ ],
items: [
{
service: ‘webradio’,
type: ‘webradio’,
title: ‘Absolut Radio’,
artist: ‘’,
album: ‘’,
albumart: ‘https://radio-directory.firebaseapp.com/volumiobuster/src/images/radio-thumbnails/Absolut Radio.jpg’,
uri: ‘http://stream.absolutradio.de/hq/mp3-160/radioplayer/’
},
{
service: ‘webradio’,
type: ‘webradio’,
title: ‘Absolut Relax’,
artist: ‘’,
album: ‘’,
albumart: ‘https://radio-directory.firebaseapp.com/volumiobuster/src/images/radio-thumbnails/Absolut Relax.jpg’,
uri: ‘http://stream.absolutradio.de/relax/mp3-160/radioplayer/’
},
{
service: ‘webradio’,
type: ‘webradio’,
title: ‘ArtSound FM 92.7’,
artist: ‘’,
album: ‘’,
albumart: ‘https://radio-directory.firebaseapp.com/volumiobuster/src/images/radio-thumbnails/ArtSound FM 92.7.jpg’,
uri: ‘http://119.15.96.188/stream2.mp3’
},