[Lists] Max. 26 entries per list are present

I´ve restricted the number of fetched entries to be 21 see: https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix/blob/master/resources/lib/NetflixSession.py#L1363

Of course that number isn’t well thought through, I´ll bump it to 70 and see how much of an impact that has on response times. Maybe a pagination is needed, which in the end would brake some of Kodis functionality in sorting items. But first, lets give the bumped number of entries a try.

[asciidisco]

Actually I don’t like the idea of paginating (as long as Kodi doesn’t come with a proper API/View for that, as I don’t like the idea of hacking around it using folder items) components.

The idea I´ve sketched to solve this problem is the following: When the main menu (after the profiles) gets fetched, you get the size of the sublists, using that size (and the knowledge that we can grep max. 26 entries per list) we can determine how many requests we need to do (with which ranges) to determine the exact requests to be made upfront. I´d like to also do those requests in separate thread, e.g. in parallel, so that we have everything in one list (without pagination) & only have a few hundred milliseconds on top.

Why isn’t that implemented yet? Because I don’t have time to do so, if anyone wants to give it a spin, I´m happy to take the contribution.

[bhaal2]

I think the old flix2kodi or the older netflix plugin which used Chrome to play the videos had a way of paginating the output of lists. I think it worked by presenting it to Kodi as sub directories etc…