# The category list is hardwired in this plugin. And there
# are three station fetching modes now:
#
#  → "JSON cache" retrieves a refurbished JSON station list,
#    both sliceable genres and searchable.
#
#  → "Clunky XML" fetches the olden YP.XML, which is really
#    slow, then slices out genres. No search.
#    slow, then slices out genres. No search. With the secret
#    "buffy" mode keeps all streams buffered.
#
#  → "Forbidden Fruits" extracts from dir.xiph.org HTML pages,
#    with homepages and listener/max infos available. Search
#    is also possible.
#
# The bitrate filter can strip any low-quality entries, but
# retains `0` entries (which just lack meta information and

      data = ahttp.get(self.json_url, params=params)
      #log.DATA(data)
      
      #-- extract
      l = []
      data = json.loads(data)
      for e in data:
          #log.DATA(e)
          if not len(l) or l[-1]["title"] != e["stream_name"]:
              l.append({
                "title": e["stream_name"],
                "url": e["listen_url"],
                "format": e["type"],
                "bitrate": int(e["bitrate"]),
                "genre": e["genre"],

      # But it's a huge waste of memory to keep it around for unused
      # categories.  Extracting all streams{} at once would be worse. Yet
      # enabling this buffer method prevents partial reloading..
      if conf.xiph_source != "buffy":
          buffy = []

      # Get XML blob
      if not buffy:
      yp = ahttp.get(self.xml_url, statusmsg="Brace yourselves, still downloading the yp.xml blob.")
      log.DATA("returned")
          yp = ahttp.get(self.xml_url, statusmsg="Brace yourselves, still downloading the yp.xml blob.")
      else:
          yp = "<none/>"
      self.status("Yes, XML parsing isn't much faster either.", timeout=20)
      for entry in xml.dom.minidom.parseString(yp).getElementsByTagName("entry"):
          buffy.append({
              "title": x(entry, "server_name"),
              "url": x(entry, "listen_url"),
              "format": self.mime_fmt(x(entry, "server_type")[6:]),
              "bitrate": bitrate(x(entry, "bitrate")),

          })
      self.status("This. Is. Happening. Now.")

      # Filter out a single subtree
      l = []
      if cat:
          rx = re.compile(cat.lower())
          l = []
          for row in buffy:
              if rx.search(row["genre"]):
          l = [row for row in buffy if rx.search(row["genre"])]
                  l.append(row)

      # Search is actually no problem. Just don't want to. Nobody is using the YP.XML mode anyway..
      elif search:
	      pass
          pass
        
      # Result category
      return l



  # Fetch directly from website. Which Xiph does not approve of; but