[REQUEST] Plugins/Scripts folder

[Zignature]

I'd love to have a plugins/scripts folder where one can put third party plugin scripts that could then directly be used in CLI instead of putting the path in.

e.g.

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filebot -script myscriptname arg1 arg2

instead of

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filebot -script "C:\my\path\to\myscriptname.groovy" arg1 arg2

Does that make any sense?

[rednoah]

I guess in your case it might be convenient, but I doubt it'd be used by many people, and just confuse everyone else even more.

If you want you can modify Settings.properties in the FileBot.jar and add another location like dev: or fn: for your system though.

[Zignature]

Thanks rednoah

A new challenge arrived... Finding out how to get into Filebot.jar to edit Settings.properties

[Zignature]

I think it would be a feature for CLI people. Not for GUI people.
I think GUI people don't bother checking folder structure so they won't notice

[Zignature]

Does it need to be a url or is also possible to add a local path e.g. c:\scripts ?

[Zignature]

Just found out. It needs to be a url

[Zignature]

It's a bit unwieldy but I got it done!

1. Extracted Filebot.jar
2. Edited "/net/filebot/Settings.properties". I added the line

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   script.pi: http://filebot.plugins.local/%s.groovy

3. Packed everything to Filebot.jar
4. Made a backup of the original Filebot.jar
5. Copied the newly created Filebot.jar to the Filebot directory
6. Installed IIS on my Windows PC
7. Created a site in IIS Management (http://filebot.plugins.local)
8. Added ".groovy application/x-groovy" to the mime-types
9. Created the folder "plugins" in the Filebot folder
10. Copied my script to the plugins folder
11. In CMD I ran

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    filebot -script pi:sub-merge-mkv "C:\mediafolder"

And it worked!!!

I'm having a lot of fun fiddling around like this

EDIT:
Thanks to an excellent pointer (one of many) by rednoah there's no need for a webserver.
In Settings.properties just add this to Settings.properties

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script.pi: file:///path/to/pluginsfolder/%1.groovy

[rednoah]

You could have just used file:///C:/path/to/%s.groovy kind of URLs... no need to run a webserver

[Zignature]

Hahaha lmao. Told ya I'm a noob

But seriously, I should've caught that one.

[Zignature]

Although the script ran and did what it had to do, I got an error:

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WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs 
at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

Found the solution over here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21496098

Had to create a registry key