Support menu item reload configuration

Currently

Selecting the menu item loads the previously loaded cached page and there is no way to force reload it based on configuration.

Wanted

Support attribute configuration reloadOnSelect to load a non-cached version of the page on every selection.

...
menu: {
    items: [{
        ...
        attributes: {
            reloadOnSelect: true
        }
    }]
}
...

[emadalam]

@cpwc You may use the Milestone-Enhancements branch for now until it gets merged to master. I have added this functionality and you will need to add the configuration reloadOnSelect as mentioned in the issue description. Let me know if that works for you…

...
menu: {
    items: [{
        ...
        attributes: {
            reloadOnSelect: true
        }
    }]
}
...

@a-ignatov-parc Thanks for your inputs, your solution will also work 👍 Now coming to the two main things that you pointed out, too many 1) dependencies and 2) restrictions. I would really appreciate if you could elaborate on those points, haven’t had a chance to get an extra pair of eyes, would be really helpful if you could tell what dependencies and restrictions you precisely see so as I can improve upon those. Or if you prefer suggestions, feel free to open issues, or even contribute.

On a side note, the whole purpose of this library was to be minimalistic and provide a rock solid architecture to quickly build your TVML applications. I have recently added a demo app with streaming examples https://github.com/emadalam/appletv-demo and also the boilerplate code https://github.com/emadalam/appletv-boilerplate. I think there is a need to add more documentation and sample examples to highlight the many possibilities available with atvjs which are still not explained or demoed anywhere as of now.

P.S. @a-ignatov-parc I have checked your TVDML library before as well, nice work 👍 People who like that declarative approach, would really like TVDML.

[MarhyCZ]

Hi, are you planning to add “reloadOnSelect” into mainline branch? I have no problem with including it by myself from your great commit in Milestone enhancements, but I think it’s a really nice feature, that would come handy for a lot of people that may not notice that it exists.