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plex_search "genre not found" error ignores genre requirement and continues with search

See original GitHub issue

I have a genre collection:

  "Action":
    plex_search:
      genre: Action
      collection.not: Anime

With Plex’s new beta TV agent, they’ve removed the Action and Adventure genre’s so the genre throws an error:

[2021-05-12 15:49:24,456] [builder.py:602]            [DEBUG]    | Validating Method: plex_search                                                                     |
[2021-05-12 15:49:24,456] [builder.py:603]            [DEBUG]    | Value: ordereddict([('genre', 'Action')])                                                          |
[2021-05-12 15:49:24,580] [plex.py:487]               [ERROR]    | Plex Error: genre: Action not found                                                                |
[2021-05-12 15:49:24,580] [builder.py:947]            [WARNING]  | Collection Warning: No valid genre values found in ['Action']                                      |

The script continues without crashing, but now all of the sudden it’s adding everything that’s not in collection Anime while ignoring the previous genre requirement.

I think it would make more sense if plex_search fails to find a genre, network, or any other field that needs to be exact, that the entire search fails.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (6 by maintainers)

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meisnate12commented, May 12, 2021

Mass_genre_update is I wanna say on the library attribute page As for smart collections, I’ve just added how to create them in develop and haven’t actually made a wiki page for them yet

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meisnate12commented, May 12, 2021

ok i added crew to plex_search as a specific case and now it will fail if an attribute isn’t found I agree that its better like that

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