Porting XBMC modules to python. Following steps in xbmcstubs.

This project has 7 python modules

The basic modules are: xbmc.py, xbmcaddon.py, xbmcplugin.py, xbmcgui.py and xbmcvfs.py.

This modules are the XBMC (KODI) modules and contains python code of some/all the members in it. Check the files to verify the objects that are ported in this version

The complementary modules:

• KodiScriptImporter.py: This module is used to install a hook in the python importer system that makes available the basic modules and the Kodi Script modules
• KodiServer.py: This module is used wih two purposes. The first, as a run module to test the KodiScriptImporter system with the video addons installed in your system. The second. as a debug module, to place breakpoints in the addon you are going to test and verify all you need.

This project has been tested in a system with the following characteristics:

• Windows Vista SP2
• Python 2.7.9
• Chrome Browser (For KodiServer client)

• Clone the repository to a directory in your system
• Make the directory of the first step available throught python path.

If you clone the repository, for example, to the directory c:/modxbmcpy in your system.

• Start an interactive session

• Make available c:/modxbmcpy to python trought python path

    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.path.append('c:/modxbmcpy')

• Create and install an importer instance

    >>> from KodiImporter import KodiScriptImporter as ksi
    >>> importer = ksi.KodiScriptImporter()       # For Win x86 users. See module for details
    >>> importer.install()                        # Installed as a metha path importer

• Verify the installation (optional)

    >>> import xbmc
    >>> xbmc.translatePath(**'special://home'**)

• If you have metahandler installed in your system you can try this:

    >>> import metahandler
    >>> from metahandler import metahandlers
    >>> md = metahandlers.MetaData()
    >>> md.get_meta('movie', 'mad max fury road', year='2015')

• You will get something like this:

{'rating': 8.2, 'year': 2015, 'duration': u'7200', 'plot': u"An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world ...", 'votes': u'370,371', 'title': 'mad max fury road', 'tagline': u'What a Lovely Day.', 'writer': u'George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris', 'imgs_prepacked': u'false', 'backdrop_url': u'http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/tbhdm8UJAb4ViCTsulYFL3lxMCd.jpg', 'tmdb_id': u'76341', 'cover_url': u'http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kqjL17yufvn9OVLyXYpvtyrFfak.jpg', 'imdb_id': u'tt1392190', 'director': u'George Miller', 'studio': u'', 'genre': u'Thriller / Action / Adventure', 'thumb_url': u'', 'overlay': 6, 'premiered': u'2015-05-15', 'cast': [(u'Tom Hardy', u'Max Rockatansky'), (u'Charlize Theron', u'Imperator Furiosa'), ...], 'mpaa': u'R', 'playcount': 0, 'trailer_url': u'2h6IKpgFixg', 'trailer': u'plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=2h6IKpgFixg'}

• Check the importer installation that you test in KodiScriptImporter Interactive Session Setup

    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.path.append('c:/modxbmcpy')
    >>> from KodiImporter import KodiServer as ks
    >>> httpd = ks.runServer()   # Here you must apply the same parameters that you use for KodiScriptImporter

• Now your default webbrowser must open in the address localhost:5000
• The webbrowser must show all your installed addons in groups: video, audio (music), image (picture) and executable (program)
• Click the addon you want to open. The audio and executable addons are based, specially when show the media, in the widgets defined in xbmcgui which are not ported yet
• For stop the server

    >>> httpd.shutdown()                     # Stop the server
    >>> httpd.server_close()                 # Close the socket