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These function provide direct access to the internal data structures of TVHeadend. Attempting to modify these internal structures may have unwanted effects including loss of data.
Information is held within TVHeadend in a key-value database. The key for each record is a random 128-bit value called a uuid. The value is a data structure which can be represented in JSON format. The record is called an idnode.
The content of each idnode depends on what it represents; this is indicated by the value of the class parameter.
Although no special privilege is required to call these functions, access control is applied to the data items being referenced.
Read the value of one or more idnode records. One (and only one) of these parameters must be specified:
uuid The uuid (or JSON-structured list of uuids) to read.
class The class of records to read, ie one of the classes returned by .
If uuid is given, the data to be returned may be qualified by setting one of these parameters to an integer greater than zero:
meta Include meta-data (default values and descriptions of the data items).
grid Return a brief summary of the records.
If class is given, setting the parameter enum to an integer value greater than zero returns only a set of key-value pairs.
In both cases the list parameter can be used to select which items are to be output, based on the value of the 'id' field. Multiple entries can be selected, separated by commas, colons or semicolons. A '-' in front of an entry deselects that item (and implicitly selects all others).
Update an existing idnode.
node The JSON object (or array of objects) containing the update.
Each update must contain the uuid item. Other items supplied replace those in the idnode; they are not merged.
Read information held in a tree structure (eg for tuner devices).
uuid The uuid of the starting point in the tree structure, or the special value 'root'.
root The uuid of the head of the tree structure. Required if uuid = 'root'.
List information about a specified class; mostly metadata used to configure the TVHeadend UI.
name The name of the class, ie one of the values returned by classes.
Delete one or more records.
uuid The uuid (or a JSON-formatted list) of the record(s) to be deleted.
Fields within an idnode may be read-only; for this reason it may not be possible to take the data from idnode/load and use it as input to idnode/save (thanks to Poul Kalff for this information). To check the read-only status of a field, use and check for a 'rdonly' flag.