Movie folder view, sort and search works

StreamCinemaLib/API/Metadata.cs

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ public class Metadata
 {
   private const string UserAgent = "User-Agent: XBMC/19 (Linux 6.1; http://www.xbmc.org)";
   private const string AccessToken = "9ajdu4xyn1ig8nxsodr3";
-  private const int MaxPageLimit = 1000;
+  private const int MaxPageLimit = 100; // thousand is too much for some search types
 
   private static readonly Uri ApiRoot = new Uri("https://plugin.sc2.zone/api/");
   private static readonly Uri ApiFilter = new Uri(ApiRoot, "media/filter/v2/");
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ public class Metadata
   /// <summary>
   /// Searches for media using an expression.
   /// </summary>
-  /// <param name="expression">Expression like part of title.</param>
+  /// <param name="expression">Expression like part of title. Can be empty string to list all media.</param>
   /// <param name="order">Result ordering direction.</param>
   /// <param name="sort">Result ordering column.</param>
   /// <param name="type">Allowed result type.</param>
@@ -37,8 +37,28 @@ public class Metadata
     if (limit == 0 || limit > MaxPageLimit)
       limit = MaxPageLimit;
 
-    UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(new Uri(ApiFilter, "search"));
+		/*
+		bool noSearchTerms = expression.Trim().Length == 0;
+		UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(new Uri(ApiFilter, noSearchTerms ? "all" : "search"));
     uri.Query = $"?access_token={AccessToken}&value={Uri.EscapeDataString(expression)}&order={ToString(order)}&sort={ToString(sort)}&type={ToString(type)}&from={offset.ToString()}&size={limit.ToString()}";
+		*/
+
+		bool noSearchTerms = expression.Trim().Length == 0;
+		string filterName;
+		string sortS = ToString(sort);
+		if (sort == FilterSortBy.Title) {
+			filterName = "startsWithSimple";
+			sortS = "";
+		} else if (noSearchTerms) {
+			filterName = "all";
+		} else {
+			filterName = "search";
+		} 
+
+    UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(new Uri(ApiFilter, filterName));
+		string orderS = order == ItemOrder.Ascending ? "asc" : "desc";
+    uri.Query = $"?access_token={AccessToken}&value={Uri.EscapeDataString(expression)}&type={ToString(type)}&from={offset.ToString()}&size={limit.ToString()}"
+			+ (sortS.Length != 0 ? $"&order={ToString(order)}&sort={sortS}" : "");
 
     FilterResponse? result = await Program._http.GetFromJsonAsync<FilterResponse>(uri.Uri, CreateFilterJsonOptions(), cancel);
     if (result != null)