Filter out archived episodes #747
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| @@ -388,6 +388,10 @@ def drafting? | |||
| apple_json&.dig("attributes", "publishingState") == "DRAFTING" | |||
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| def archived? | |||
| apple_json&.dig("attributes", "publishingState") == "ARCHIVED" | |||
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What does "archived" mean? Is that some action someone took manually in apple connect? Or an episode that fell out of the public RSS? Or something else?
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It's a status within Apple's Podcasts Connect system. An episode can have DRAFT PUBLISHED or ARCHIVED status within that system. In this case, we can manipulate the delivery models (container, delivery, delivery files) but Apple will throw a 409 (or similar) when you try to update the Episode model.
If someone in Podcasts Connect marks an episode as having status of ARCHIVED then it is impossible to modify the episode in the course of setting up the new audio asset. That makes it impossible for the Apple::Publish finalize the link between the container and episode.
It's possible we could engineer a system that works around episode, e.g. prepping as much of the podcasts container/delivery etc as possible. That would bring the archived episode under the wing of the publishing here.
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Ah, okay. So this was some sort of manual user action, not something Apple inferred/interpreted from the RSS feed. Yeah, this makes sense to me then.
It's not possible to update some attributes of the episode when it's in an archived state. So filter out archived episodes before entering into the publishing flow.