zelfratz version 0.1

[esc]

Hi,

i "released" version 0.1 of my tool today. If you are interested you
will find it at:

http://github.com/esc/zelfratz/tree/master

Now that thats out of the way, i might actually get around to buying
some choons ;)

I have 2 further comments:

1) I can search labels by the internal name, but not the artists.

2) The way i parse the xml now is a bit hacky, maybe if i had a DTD it
would be easier to marshall/unmarshall the xml.

Otherwise thank you so much for making digital-tunes and the api, its
really a great service far ahead of the competition!

V-

[will-c]

Hey cool stuff :D

> 1) I can search labels by the internal name, but not the artists.

Not sure what you mean here, as far as i know there is no way to
search for labels by internal name, calls to /labels/ query using
name.

2) The way i parse the xml now is a bit hacky, maybe if i had a DTD it
would be easier to marshall/unmarshall the xml.

Not sure if a DTD would make your life much easier... Im sure there
must be all kinds of nice Python xml parsing libs out there, but im
not a Python guy so wouldnt know. I have played around in the past
with roxml http://roxml.rubyforge.org/ for ruby, i guess you could use
something like that to build nice objects out of the xml returned.

Tell us if there are any features you would like added btw...

[esc]

Hi,

i'll just answer the first part in this thread for now, as i am still
looking into the other one :-)

Let me illustrate what i mean with an example:

We will use:

<artist internal-name="black_sun_empire">Black sun empire</artist>

and

<name>Digital Venom</name>
<internal-name>digital_venom</internal-name>

So for the artist, the search:

http://api.digital-tunes.net/releases/by_artist/black_sun_empire?key=666

will fail. and only:

http://api.digital-tunes.net/releases/by_artist/black%20sun%20empire?key=666

will be successful.

So a search by internal name will fail.

For labels we have a different story, in this case the following two
api requests will be successful:

http://api.digital-tunes.net/releases/by_label/digital%20venom?key=666

http://api.digital-tunes.net/releases/by_label/digital_venom?key=666

ergo: both the name and the internal-name can be used.

I hope this makes it clear

As far as features i'll ponder on it for a while, but until now i'm a
happy chappy!

cheers

esc

On Mar 27, 11:51 am, will-c <william.coa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey cool stuff :D
>
> > 1) I can search labels by the internal name, but not the artists.
>
> Not sure what you mean here, as far as i know there is no way to
> search for labels by internal name, calls to /labels/ query using
> name.
>
> 2) The way i parse the xml now is a bit hacky, maybe if i had a DTD it
> would be easier to marshall/unmarshall the xml.
>
> Not sure if a DTD would make your life much easier... Im sure there
> must be all kinds of nice Python xml parsing libs out there, but im
> not a Python guy so wouldnt know. I have played around in the past

> with roxmlhttp://roxml.rubyforge.org/for ruby, i guess you could use