Update bc-papi.php

[sunil-ca]

New changes to Search method

[hmhnewmant]

@sunil-ca can you please create a branch with all your changes so i can easily pull down to test? thanks!

[sunil-ca]

@hmhnewmant I tried PUSH my changes using new branch (also sent email back with screenshot of the error), but looks like I do not have permissions to PUSH a branch.

I was getting - fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Brightcove-Playback-API-Wrapper.git' : The requested URL returned error: 403

[hmhnewmant]

@sunil-ca thanks for trying, sorry, that actually makes sense. Could you possibley combine all changes into one PR?

[hmhnewmant]

@sunil-ca I figured out how to pull your PR locally, i'll have a look at them all, no need to do anything else right now

[sunil-ca]

@hmhnewmant thanks Theresa

[hmhnewmant]

@sunil-ca same here, incorporating these changes in my next PR. will not merge this on
cc @rcrooks

[sunil-ca]

@hmhnewmant when your search function is ready, I will compare with mine and will make changes at my end accordingly, thanks.

[sunil-ca]

@hmhnewmant if you have not started working on your search, take this code and improve/change what you want after testing. I am happy to help, if you need any kind of help in testing this. Everything is setup on my end as we use brightcove api every day - I can be a very good resource to test any functionality.

[theresaweb]

@sunil-ca Please feel free to take a fork and run with it my code is very similar. I've also added a note to make sure that the Policy Key is search enabled.

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb how can I see your changes? I am new to gitHub, please guide me

[hmhnewmant]

@sunil-ca I do not have control over permissions here, if you are able to see the branch I just pushed you will find my changes there, https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Brightcove-Playback-API-Wrapper/tree/add-search

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb yes that is true, we need search enabled policy key. It took me some time to get that key. One more interesting thing. The new PlayBack API does not return video views when it return video data either by video_by_id or play_list_bay_id. Brightcove told me to use Analytics API to get video views. I have created Analytics API wrapper based on this PlayBack wrapper and did the required changes. It is working, I get the video views, but it is not as fast as PlayBack API.

[sunil-ca]

@hmhnewmant @theresaweb @BrianFranklin @rcrooks @doktorj7 I need your suggestion, how to efficiently get video views. Now if I get playlist of 20 videos, I have to make video views call 20 times to get the views for each video. Any suggestion?

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb I saw your search changes, similar to mine. One suggestion, you need to urlencode $q being passed - see brightcove documentions -https://support.brightcove.com/cmsplayback-api-videos-search
Let me know if I am wrong, I can make changes on my end. I am doing this
public function search($type = 'videos', $terms = '', $params = NULL)
{
$terms = urlencode($terms);
$offset = (isset($params['offset']) && $params['offset'] != '')?$params['offset']:0;
$sort = (isset($params['sort']) && $params['sort'] != '')?$params['sort']:'updated_at';
$limit = (isset($params['limit']) && $params['limit'] != '')?$params['limit']:20;
$url = $this->url_read . $this->bc_account . '/' . $type . '?q='. $terms.'&sort='.$sort.'&offset='.$offset.'&limit='.$limit;
return $this->getData($url);
}

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb and it is my suggestion do not overload the function too much, $params can hold all - sort, limit and offset. Or any other needed in future.

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb I also just noticed search function which is just pushed missing offset, it is required if we are showing search result on multiple pages e.g. 1|2|3|4 . for the second page offset will be 20, if the first page showed, first 10 search results.

[theresaweb]

@sunil-ca thanks for your suggestions. please do fork the repo and use as you wish. it is mainly meant as a baseline suggestion. I will update as I feel necessary. For questions on methods to accomplish things with the apis I suggest you contact [email protected] or join one of the brightcove google groups

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb my suggestions is make this wrapper better based on what work I did recently and approved by our QA team here in my company, Please do not take personally. I am trying to improve this wrapper. And I already talked to Brightcove team a lot last week while working on this wrapper, they do not provide any support for wrapper. They only help with their api only. Sorry if hurt your feelings.

[theresaweb]

no feelings hurt! I am working on other things, please go forward with your suggestions as you please, I do not work for brightcove, this was just meant to give a start to those who need it. please enjoy :D

[sunil-ca]

@theresaweb I am new to gitHub, this first set of interactions through this wrapper. I have no idea how things works here. This wrapper helped me a lot initially. So wanted to improve this as much I can based on my recent experience.