selecting 'Hide Contents' may crash MinimServer

[simoncn]

(09-08-2012 19:05)winxi Wrote:  Many thanks for the detailed explanation! It wasn't intended purpose of 'Hide Contents', i rather came across this playing around and exploring the smart browsing abilities of MinimServer.
From my understanding, 'Hide Contents' is just necessary to prevent duplicate playlist entries when adding a folder together with subfolders. That's why i suggested to hide this at the control point side without omitting its functionality.

I think there are two points here:

1) MinimServer needs to hande this as well as possible for all control points that have different strategies for caching, etc. This means that MinimServer should never throw a NullPointerException and shouldn't produce "xxxx isn't a valid container" errors.

2) In this situation, MinimServer is trying to work around limitations in the UPnP specifications. A control point such as BubbleDS could work around the MinimServer workarounds, as you're suggesting. It would be even better for server authors and control point authors to collaborate on adopting agreed extensions to the UPnP specifications so that these workarounds aren't needed.