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[tetraf]

Search results are listed this way:

[#] original_title (year) by director [datasource]

It would be useful to add some details like that:

[#] original_title (year) by director [datasource]
    aka "title_us" [us], "title_fr" [fr] and "title_es" [es]
    cast: actor_a, actor_b, actor_c...

with a new config parameter for prefered title's locales (default: user's locale?) and another for number of actors.

[Antoine Millet]

Hi,

Some times ago I was thinking about a way to let the user format the list output himself. The problem is that the current format is such that is not easy to represent it in a simple formatted string. FYI, the current code generating the list output is here:

def __unicode__(self):
    if self.get('directors'):
        directors = ' by '
        if len(self['directors']) > 1:
            directors += '%s and %s' % (', '.join(self['directors'][0:-1]),
                                                  self['directors'][-1])
        else:
            directors += self['directors'][0]
    else:
        directors = ''
    fmt = u'{title} ({year}){directors}'
    return fmt.format(title=bold(self.get('title', 'No title')),
                      year=self.get('year', 'Unknown'),
                      directors=directors)

With some rules:

• List of values are always formatted in the form "one, two and three"
• Directors are always present even if the key doesn't exists
• Bold values are represented using some markup

I can imagine using the following format for the current list output:

<b>{title}</b> ({year|"unknown"}) by {directors} [{_Datasource}]

What do you think about that?

[tetraf]

I don't see how to show a clean list of alternative titles with this method (no duplicate with original title and no empty title) but it's way more configurable. Adequate for me.

[Antoine Millet]

Yep, you right. But it is possible to do what ever you want using the new rewrite datasource, and to include the new field in the format :-).

[Antoine Millet]

Hi, feature has been implemented! :-)

Tell me if you have idea to enhance it!

[tetraf]

After upgrade to last commit, I've this:

[1] <b>Big Buck Bunny</b> (2008) by Sacha Goedegebure [tmdb_proxy]

without bold text (but stats have bold text yet) (python2-lxml is installed).

I did not find, in the code, how to configure this new feature (it's a new "listing" block?).

[Antoine Millet]

Ok, I just figured that we speak about different things. You speak about search results (as you wrote) and I, about list command. My mistake :-).

To answer to your last message, ok, I noted the bug and it will be fixed soon.

To answer your original message: I need some time to decide. I can't use the system I implemented for the list command, and the feature you want need a lot of changes in datasources api / tmdb backend / tmdb_proxy. Furthermore, fetching alternative titles need one more request for each searched movie, and will slow down the search operation.