iOS SDK: writing PCPlaylist or BCVideo to a file

[RebelProduction]

Hi,

since the objects in the SDK aren'T NSCoder compliant, it isn't not possible to directly save these objects with NSKeyedArchiver. Does anyone know a way to do this?

There some playlist which are reloaded everytime our app starts, but I want to cache them to the filesystem, because there are nearly no changes of the videos in the playlist.

Thanks!

Kind Regards, Ingo

[BC-ErikP · Accepted solution]

You can use the -toDictionary method of the BCVideo class to obtain a representation of the BCVideo object that is an NSDictionary. NSDictionary implements NSCoding, so you can persist the NSDictionary object using an NSCoder. When you read back the NSDictionary from the archive, you can pass the resulting dictionary to the -initFromDictionary method to create a BCVideo from the archived data.

[RebelProduction]

Thanks, that worked.

I've just overlooked these two commands.

Kind Regards, Ingo Schramme

[RebelProduction]

Hi,

is it possible to do the same for BCPlaylist?

I now can save the playlist videos to a file but getting them back doesn't work cause I just get back the video info not the info for the playlist itself.

It really would help to have a [BCPlaylist toDictionary:NSDictionary]

Thanks.

Kind Regards, Ingo

[RebelProduction]

Hi,

again, there's a problem:

if you try the following:

BCVideo *testInput = [playlist.videos objectAtIndex:0];

NSLog(@"Input: %llu", testInput.videoId);
NSDictionary *testVideo = [BCVideo toDictionary:testInput];
NSLog(@"Output:: %@", testVideo);

Log:

Input: 1521044669001

Output: {
    FLVURL = ...;
    name = ...;
    shortDescription = ...;
    thumbnailURL = ...;
    videoId = 626246217;
    videoStillURL = ...;
}

as you can see, the video id is not saved properly. The Id seems to be saved as an unsigned int not as a unsigned long long.

The next problem is with initFromDictionary:

BCVideo *testOutputVideo = [BCVideo initFromDictionary:testVideo];
NSLog(@"Output from Dict: %@", testOutputVideo);


Output from Dict: BCVideo: id:0 name:...

Can you please fix it? Thanks.

Kind Regards, Ingo

[BC-Oscar]

What version of the SDK are you using? I'd need to try this myself but the videoId was changed from double to long long some time ago so in theory it should work (unless you happen to have an older SDK version)

[RebelProduction]

Hi,

I'm using the latest SDK (2.1) thats not the problem.

I'm now rebuilding the Playlists by myself, but the problem that the ids are not saved still exist.

Just follow the example and you know what i mean.

Kind Regards, Ingo

[BC-Oscar]

 I was able to reproduce and I got a fix. It should be released in the next couple of weeks, if you need early access to this version please send me a private message. 

[BC-Oscar]

 We released a fix for this with version 2.2

[RebelProduction]

Hi,

is there a release date for the 2.2?

Thanks.

Cheers, Ingo