[Feature request] Built-in json filtering/formatting in the now-playing subcommand about empress HOT 9 CLOSED

Seems like my mpris usecases are all covered by empress now :)

Awesome work!

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@mradermaxlol I'm looking for a format string library, will likely use something like this if the syntax looks like it'd cover your usecase?

EDIT: scratch that, i may just take the extra time to roll my own to get a feature set more closely resembling playerctl's because tinytemplate seems like it has some deal-breakers

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@mradermaxlol I promise I'm making progress on this lol, it's just been slow going with work.

Remaining tasks on this issue:

• Add a lexer, parser, and interpreter
• Add basic formatter functions
• Add array indexing
• Check feature parity with playerctl
• Document syntax
• Test & benchmark

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My only remaining request (as of right now, at least) is a playerctl metadata -F equivalent so that empress could be nicely integrated with various WM bars. Should it be tracked in a separate issue?

Yeah, I can look into that as a separate issue. If you haven't encountered any bugs, I've found and sanded off a couple rough edges from the current beta, so I'll likely cut a full 1.6.0 release soon.

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Ah, so like a plaintext format string? I could whip something like that up, I ended up writing a custom i3bar script that polls and formats the output itself so it never crossed my mind. I can totally add something like that.

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Got a proof-of-concept json function working with the FFI logic layer to support it.

Additional functions I want to add:

• JSON serialize/escape
• Pango/XML markup escape
• Lower- and upper-casing
• Null-coalescing
• Ruby compact method for arrays
• Array joining (mostly for artist)
• Whitespace trim
• Truncate/ellipsize end
• Truncate/ellipsize middle
• duration from playerctl
• emoji from playerctl

playerctl says it supports basic math in its templates, for the time being I'm gonna consider that a non-goal.

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I've released format strings (and the associated player name issue) in beta. I've pushed a build to crates.io for testing.

There's still a couple things to be done, namely the duration and current time from playerctl, but other than that the feature development should be pretty much done.

@mradermaxlol Let me know if you have any issues with or feedback on the beta build. Because of the playerId update, you'll need to also run v1.6 on the daemon.

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My only remaining request (as of right now, at least) is a playerctl metadata -F equivalent so that empress could be nicely integrated with various WM bars. Should it be tracked in a separate issue?

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Alright, v1.6.0 is out on GitHub, crates.io, and the AUR!

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