[vdr] Re: solution: Access the plugins of SVDRP

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Hardy Flor wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> this patch (attached) allow any plugin using the svdr-protokoll by a
> simple parse the given line, after vdr checked this line.
> also included is the help-system with the svdrp-command 'HELP'
> 
> the patch is available under
> http://www.fast-info.de/vdr/status/index.htm
> 
> The plugin status+question demonstration the use of the new interface.
> With this plugin can a script interactive with the user.
> 
> Hardy
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Just for the record: this is not the way this will go into the
official VDR source, because it would require all plugins to use
mutually exclusive command names (which clearly can't be guaranteed).

A proper implementation will define a new SVDRP command PLUG, with syntax

  PLUG [ <plugin> [ <command> [ <parameters>... ] ] ]
      Sends the given command with its optional parameters to the
      given plugin. Without any options, PLUG lists all plugins that
      implement any SVDRP commands. 'PLUG <plugin> HELP' lists all
      SVDRP commands a particular plugin implements, and
      'PLUG <plugin> HELP <command>' lists the detailed help for
      a given command.

I just don't have the time right now to implement this, but I wanted to
warn those who think of using this patch that this will be done differently
later.

Klaus