Improve server connection feedback

components/config/ConfigScene.xml

@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@
       translation="[150, 450]" />
     <label text=""
       id="alert"
+      wrap="true"
+      width="1620"
       font="font:MediumSystemFont"
-      translation="[150, 555]" />
+      translation="[150, 580]" />
   </children>
   <script type="text/brightscript" uri="ConfigScene.brs"/>
 </component>

source/Main.brs

@@ -441,7 +441,21 @@ function LoginFlow(startOver = false as boolean)
   end if
   'Collect Jellyfin server and user information
   start_login:
-  if get_setting("server") = invalid or ServerInfo() = invalid or startOver = true then
+
+  if get_setting("server") = invalid then startOver = true
+
+  if not startOver then
+        ' Show Connecting to Server spinner
+        dialog = createObject("roSGNode", "ProgressDialog")
+        dialog.title = tr("Connecting to Server")
+        m.scene.dialog = dialog
+
+        serverInfoResult = ServerInfo()
+
+        dialog.close = true
+  end if
+
+  if serverInfoResult.Error or startOver  then
     print "Get server details"
     SendPerformanceBeacon("AppDialogInitiate")  ' Roku Performance monitoring - Dialog Starting
     serverSelection = CreateServerGroup()

source/ShowScenes.brs

@@ -53,12 +53,34 @@ function CreateServerGroup()
           set_setting("password", "")
         endif
         set_setting("server", server_hostname.value)
-        if ServerInfo() = invalid then
+        
+        ' Show Connecting to Server spinner
+        dialog = createObject("roSGNode", "ProgressDialog")
+        dialog.title = tr("Connecting to Server")
+        m.scene.dialog = dialog
+
+        serverInfoResult = ServerInfo()
+
+        dialog.close = true
+
+        if serverInfoResult = invalid then
           ' Maybe don't unset setting, but offer as a prompt
           ' Server not found, is it online? New values / Retry
           print "Server not found, is it online? New values / Retry"
           group.findNode("alert").text = tr("Server not found, is it online?")
           SignOut()
+        else if serverInfoResult.Error <> invalid and serverInfoResult.Error
+          ' If server redirected received, update the URL
+          if serverInfoResult.UpdatedUrl <> invalid then
+            server_hostname.value = serverInfoResult.UpdatedUrl
+          end if
+          ' Display Error Message to user
+          message = tr("Error: ")
+          if serverInfoResult.ErrorCode <> invalid then
+            message = message + "[" + serverInfoResult.ErrorCode.toStr() + "] "
+          end if
+          group.findNode("alert").text = message + tr(serverInfoResult.ErrorMessage)
+          SignOut()
         else
           group.visible = false
           return "true"

source/api/userauth.brs

@@ -58,8 +58,54 @@ end function
 
 function ServerInfo()
   url = "System/Info/Public"
-  resp = APIRequest(url)
-  return getJson(resp)
+  req = APIRequest(url)
+
+  req.setMessagePort(CreateObject("roMessagePort"))
+  req.AsyncGetToString()
+
+  ' wait 15 seconds for a server response
+  resp = wait(35000, req.GetMessagePort())
+
+  ' handle unknown errors
+  if type(resp) <> "roUrlEvent"
+    return { "Error": true, "ErrorMessage": "Unknown" }
+  end if
+
+  ' check for a location redirect header in the response
+  headers = resp.GetResponseHeaders()
+  if headers <> invalid and headers.location <> invalid then
+
+    ' only follow redirect if it the API Endpoint path is the same (/System/Info/Public)
+    ' set the server to new location and try again
+    if right(headers.location, 19) = "/System/Info/Public" then
+      set_setting("server", left(headers.location, len(headers.location) - 19))
+      info = ServerInfo()
+      if info.Error then
+        info.UpdatedUrl = left(headers.location, len(headers.location) - 19)
+        info.ErrorMessage = info.ErrorMessage + " (Note: Server redirected us to " + info.UpdatedUrl + ")"
+      end if
+      return info
+    end if
+  end if
+
+  ' handle any non 200 responses, returning the error code and message
+  if resp.GetResponseCode() <> 200 then
+    return { "Error": true, "ErrorCode": resp.GetResponseCode(), "ErrorMessage": resp.GetFailureReason() }
+  end if
+
+  ' return the parsed response string
+  responseString = resp.GetString()
+  if responseString <> invalid and responseString <> "" then
+    result = ParseJson(responseString)
+    if result <> invalid then
+      result.Error = false
+      return result
+    end if
+  end if
+
+  ' otherwise return error message
+  return { "Error": true, "ErrorMessage": "Does not appear to be a Jellyfin Server" }
+
 end function
 
 function GetPublicUsers()