scripts/media-shows.py

@@ -404,20 +404,37 @@ def tvdb_search(name):
     return None
 
 
+# Tvdb's default episode query answers AT MOST this many rows and states no
+# total: One Piece (1999), Crayon Shin-chan (1992) and Detective Conan (1996)
+# each answer exactly 500 while holding over a thousand. A list that long bounds
+# nothing above itself, so it must never be read as "the series holds 500".
+EPISODE_PAGE_CAP = 500
+
+
 def tvdb_episodes(sid):
-    """`season/episode` -> title for one series, in the one call tvdb answers."""
+    """`season/episode` -> title for one series, in the one call tvdb answers.
+    Whether that call came back a cut-off page is recorded in the cache beside
+    it, so a warm cache answers the same question a cold one did."""
     ck = f"tvdb:episodes:{sid}"
-    if ck in CACHE:
-        return CACHE[ck]
-    data = tvdb(f"/series/{sid}/episodes/default")
-    if not data:
-        return None
-    CACHE[ck] = {f"{e.get('seasonNumber')}/{e.get('number')}":
-                 (e.get("name") or "").strip()
-                 for e in data.get("episodes") or []}
+    if ck not in CACHE:
+        data = tvdb(f"/series/{sid}/episodes/default")
+        if not data:
+            return None
+        rows = data.get("episodes") or []
+        CACHE[ck] = {f"{e.get('seasonNumber')}/{e.get('number')}":
+                     (e.get("name") or "").strip() for e in rows}
+        CACHE[f"tvdb:capped:{sid}"] = len(rows) >= EPISODE_PAGE_CAP
     return CACHE[ck]
 
 
+def tvdb_list_capped(sid):
+    """True when tvdb's episode answer for this series is a page, not a list."""
+    rows = tvdb_episodes(sid)
+    if not rows:
+        return False
+    return CACHE.get(f"tvdb:capped:{sid}", len(rows) >= EPISODE_PAGE_CAP)
+
+
 
 # tvdb's titles read backwards, for the rows that carry a title and no numbering.
 _TITLE_IDX = {}
@@ -757,14 +774,17 @@ def label_of(s):
 
 def contradicted_seasons(s):
     """Seasons whose numbering tvdb's own episode list contradicts — the one place
-    a tvdb title can be a confident lie. An anime pack numbered by its release group
-    books S05E01 in a season tvdb does not hold, or books more episodes there than
-    tvdb lists, and the slot its number points at is a DIFFERENT episode. Books <=
-    tvdb's count stays plausible: a partial pack is the normal shape."""
+        a tvdb title can be a confident lie. An anime pack numbered by its release group
+        books S05E01 in a season tvdb does not hold, or books more episodes there than
+        tvdb lists, and the slot its number points at is a DIFFERENT episode. Books <=
+        tvdb's count stays plausible: a partial pack is the normal shape. A list the
+        authority cut off at its page limit (EPISODE_PAGE_CAP) contradicts nothing —
+        it says nothing about the episodes it never sent."""
     if "contradicted" in s:
         return s["contradicted"]
     bad = set()
-    eps = tvdb_episodes(s["tvdb"]) if s["tvdb"] else None
+    eps = None if not s["tvdb"] or tvdb_list_capped(s["tvdb"]) \
+            else tvdb_episodes(s["tvdb"])
     if eps:
         have = collections.Counter()
         for k in eps:

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md

@@ -275,7 +275,11 @@ Four refusals carry the design: what the planner will NOT do is the point of it.
   The file still renames to the standard shape; the title does not ride, and the
   series is listed under *seasons whose numbering tvdb contradicts* in the
   exceptions. A season holding FEWER files than tvdb lists stays plausible — a
-  partial pack is the normal shape.
+  partial pack is the normal shape. Neither reading holds for a list tvdb
+  cut off at its own page limit: the default episode query answers at most
+  500 rows and states no total, and One Piece, Crayon Shin-chan and
+  Detective Conan each answer exactly 500 while holding over a thousand —
+  a page bounds nothing above itself, so it contradicts nothing.
 
 **A provider name is evidence only when an id backs it.** Jellyfin names a Series
 after the folder it scanned, so a library filed by release folders ends up with

tests/media_shows.bats

@@ -539,3 +539,30 @@ PY
     [ "$(dst "$LIB/Gate Pack/Season 05/two S05E01.mkv")" = "$want" ]
     grep -A6 -i "numbering tvdb contradicts" "$EXC" | grep -q "Anime Gate"
 }
+
+# Tvdb's default episode query answers at most 500 rows and states no total, so a
+# list that long is a PAGE, not a list: One Piece (1999), Crayon Shin-chan (1992)
+# and Detective Conan (1996) each answer exactly 500 while holding over a thousand.
+# Read as the whole truth, that page contradicts every long-running show's pack
+# and strips the tvdb title from all of it.
+@test "an episode list the authority paginates never contradicts the pack" {
+    python3 - "$CACHE" <<'PY'
+import json, sys
+json.dump({"tvdb:series:4242": {"name": "Long Run", "year": "1999"},
+           "tvdb:episodes:4242": {f"1/{n}": f"Episode {n}"
+                                  for n in range(1, 501)}},
+          open(sys.argv[1], "w"))
+PY
+    for n in $(seq 1 501); do
+        ep=$(printf '%02d' "$n")
+        file "$LIB/Long Pack/Season 01/long $ep.mkv" 1000
+        title_row "$LIB/Long Pack/Season 01/long $ep.mkv" \
+            "Long Run" 1999 1 "$n" "" "" "" "4242"
+    done
+    plan
+    want="$LIB/Long Run (1999) [tvdbid-4242]/Season 01"
+    want+="/Long Run (1999) - S01E01 - Episode 1.mkv"
+    [ "$(dst "$LIB/Long Pack/Season 01/long 01.mkv")" = "$want" ]
+    run grep -i "numbering tvdb contradicts" "$EXC"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+}