Source Documents
A source document can represent one of two things:
Some data structures are used within several of the above objects – see here for an explanation of how to interpret those data structures.
- For linear schedules it represents a linear channel.
- For VOD, it represents a VOD catalog. On most API instances that include VOD metadata, there is a single source representing the relevant customer’s VOD catalog.
Primary Properties
Important properties on a source document are as follows:| Object name | Data provided by object |
| sourceId | Simply.TV’s unique ID for the source. Every contentinstance/event document is linked to a source document in that the internalIds.sourceId of the event document matches the sourceId of a source document. |
| sourceNames | The name of the source. |
| sourceType | Indicates whether the source is linear or vod. |
| delivery.quality | Simply.TV typically delivers linear channel metadata in two different levels of richness: Standard, including a synopsis, a genre and an image for every program, and Premium, including cast lists, series/season IDs and tags for recommendation. This property indicates the level to which a linear channel is built. |