Use **kwargs to capture (and ignore) anything Plex clients can add to…

[sander1]

… a request

[phrawzty]

Hello,

Thanks for the PR. While I understand this small change from a code perspective, I'm not sure what the intent is here; could you explain the impetus for this modification a little more, please?

[sander1]

Hi,

The CreateChannelObject function broke because some client (iOS I think in this case) added some extra parameter (includeBandwidths) to the request. I've seen other Plex clients also add extra stuff to the request (includeExtras or something similar). Since clients change all the time and we cannot predict what they will accidentally(?) add to the request, we'd have to keep adding the new parameters to the CreateChannelObject function. Instead we can use **kwargs to capture all those extra parameters (and ignore them in this case) so our function won't break.

[phrawzty]

Oh, yes, that makes sense. It broke recently with casting because of some screwy own that was being passed. Good idea! The next step after this would be removing any unnecessary items that may have accumulated organically in this plugin. :)
Thanks!