PLex Error: studio: Marvel Enterprise not found. Script aborts?

[douginoz]

My Movies.yml includes:

templates:
    Studio:
        plex_search:
          studio: <<studio>>
        url_poster: <<poster>>
        sort_title: +++++_<<collection_name>>
        collection_order: alpha
collections:
  Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    template: {name: Studio, studio: "Marvel Enterprise, Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios", poster: https://theposterdb.com/api/assets/5912}
    summary: blah

But when run:

python3 plex_meta_manager.py --config config/config.yml --run --collections "Marvel Cinematic Universe"

terminates with:

|====================================================================================================|
|                                Marvel Cinematic Universe Collection                                |
|====================================================================================================|
|                                                                                                    |
| Scanning Marvel Cinematic Universe Collection                                                      |
| Plex Error: studio: Marvel Enterprise not found                                                    |
|                                                                                                    |
|====================================================================================================|
|                                      Finished Collections Run                                      |
|                                         Run Time: 0:00:43                                          |
|====================================================================================================|

I can work out that this means that Plex doesn't have any movies with a studio value of "Marvel Enterprise" currently, but should this cause the script to just stop? I have all the current Marvel movies in Plex and all the other collections are created except the MCU one, which I assume is because of this error.
Is there a way to tell it to continue despite it not finding that value?

[meisnate12]

running --collections "Marvel Cinematic Universe" tells the script to only run the one collection called Marvel Cinematic Universe

[douginoz]

Yes, that's fine, but it doesn't create the collection, I assume because of this error.
At least, it didn't appear to. I'm seeing an inconsistency with Plex that may explain it. Existing collections get updated on-screen in Plex dynamically (I can see the changes happening). But new collections that weren't there a moment before the script creates it, don't appear automatically. I have to refresh the web page to see it.

So I don't now know if I was correct in assuming that the script was aborting because of the error. I never saw the collection added to Plex so I assumed so. But it's likely that I'm wrong, as a refresh has made it appear.

[meisnate12]

if the plex_search for studio fails PMM has no other builders that can add an item to the collection. If a collection has no items it doesn't exist in plex. So if any items had been added the collection would have been created

[douginoz]

If the plex_search for studio fails PMM has no other builders that can add an item to the collection. If a collection has no items it doesn't exist in plex. So if any items had been added the collection would have been created

[douginoz]

Ok, so I'm not sure I understand.
If I don't have any movies that include "Marvel Enterprise" as the studio tag, then the script stops/jumps to the next section.

So that means that having this:
template: {name: Studio, studio: "Marvel Enterprise, Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios"}

becomes, what, a logical AND and not a logical OR?
I have many movies with a studio tag of either "Marvel Entertainment" or "Marvel Studios", but none with "Marvel Enterprise".

I don't follow why the script does what it does. I would have thought that it would look for any movies that have any of the 3 possible values.
You said that if the plex_search for studio fails, PMM has no other builders. But why is it failing just because there aren't (currently) any "Marvel Entertainment" movies, yet plenty of "Marvel Studio" ones?

I have the same problem with my Aardman studios one. Movies could either have a studio value of "Aardman", or "Aardman Animations". So I include both:
template: {name: Studio, studio: "Aardman, Aardman Animations"}

But no Aardman collection gets created because I don't (currently) have any movies with a studio of "Aardman". But I have plenty that are "Aardman Animations". How do I get it to include either type?

I can manually modify a movie and change the studio to "Marvel Enterprise", or "Aardman", and the collection will then get added. And, once added, it will get updated in future. It's just the use case of when this is first run, and those collections don't yet exist. This happens a lot while I'm still building up my yml files because I need to delete all the collections before some of the test runs, and I need to see how they're rebuilt. For some, they never get (re-) built because of this problem.

[meisnate12]

I didn't see that you had a comma-separated list of multiple tags. It is a logical OR by default for it to be a logical AND you would have to use studio.and. The script works fine in my testing for if I have one tag and not the other. There was a bug in a previous version that shut down the whole collection if one value was not found. Have you updated to the latest version?

[douginoz]

Ah, I did not see the new version - which also includes some command-line options I was hoping to use. Great - thanks!