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A collection class that manages VideoChannel entities in SharePoint, providing methods to query, retrieve, and manipulate video channels.

Purpose

VideoChannelCollection serves as a container and manager for VideoChannel objects within the SharePoint publishing video framework. It inherits from EntityCollection to provide standard collection operations like querying, filtering, adding, and removing video channels. This class acts as an intermediary between the SharePoint context and individual VideoChannel entities, enabling batch operations and efficient data retrieval for video channel management.

Source Code

class VideoChannelCollection(EntityCollection):
    def __init__(self, context, resource_path=None):
        super(VideoChannelCollection, self).__init__(
            context, VideoChannel, resource_path
        )

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Kind
bases	EntityCollection	-

Parameter Details

context: The SharePoint client context object that provides authentication and connection details to the SharePoint site. This context is used to execute queries and operations against the SharePoint server.

resource_path: Optional string representing the server-relative URL path to the video channel collection resource. If None, the path will be determined automatically based on the parent entity. This path is used to construct API endpoints for REST operations.

Return Value

Instantiation returns a VideoChannelCollection object that represents a collection of VideoChannel entities. The object provides inherited methods from EntityCollection for querying and manipulating the collection. Individual method returns depend on the inherited EntityCollection interface, typically returning self for chaining, individual VideoChannel objects, or query results.

Class Interface

Methods

Attributes

Name	Type	Description	Scope
context	ClientContext	The SharePoint client context used for all operations	instance
resource_path	str or None	The server-relative URL path to the collection resource	instance
_item_type	type	The type of entities in this collection (VideoChannel), set by parent constructor	instance

Dependencies

• office365-rest-python-client

Required Imports

from office365.sharepoint.publishing.video.channel_collection import VideoChannelCollection
from office365.sharepoint.client_context import ClientContext

Usage Example

from office365.sharepoint.client_context import ClientContext
from office365.sharepoint.publishing.video.channel_collection import VideoChannelCollection

# Authenticate to SharePoint
ctx = ClientContext('https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite').with_credentials(
    UserCredential('username@tenant.com', 'password')
)

# Get the video channel collection
video_channels = VideoChannelCollection(ctx, '/sites/yoursite/_api/VideoService/Channels')

# Load the collection
video_channels.get().execute_query()

# Iterate through channels
for channel in video_channels:
    print(f'Channel: {channel.title}')

# Filter channels
filtered = video_channels.filter('Title eq "Marketing"')
filtered.get().execute_query()

Best Practices

• Always ensure the SharePoint context is properly authenticated before instantiating the collection
• Call execute_query() after operations like get(), filter(), or add() to actually execute the request against SharePoint
• Use the inherited filter() and select() methods to optimize queries and reduce data transfer
• Handle exceptions that may occur during SharePoint operations, especially network and authentication errors
• The collection follows lazy loading patterns - data is not fetched until execute_query() is called
• Reuse the same context object for multiple operations to maintain session state and improve performance
• Check SharePoint permissions before attempting to add or modify video channels

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class VideoChannelCollection(EntityCollection):
    def __init__(self, context, resource_path=None):
        super(VideoChannelCollection, self).__init__(
            context, VideoChannel, resource_path
        )