Report url after redirection to application event listeners

[vishveshdk]

Does ExoPlayer provide the IP Address of the server that delievered the media Segment? Similar issue was raised previous in the following bug: #2028

I have used the latest version of ExoPlayer with HLS stream, it does not return the IP address of the Server. The IP address is useful in identify server delivering data. Quite useful to track the source of rebuffer etc.

iOS has MPMovieAccessLogEvent and AVPlayerItemAccessLogEvent, which provide server IP Address. Are there any plan to provide this information?

[ojw28]

I'm not sure HttpUrlConnection exposes a way of getting the IP address at the platform level. Do you really need the actual IP address, or is the URL after redirection sufficient?

[vishveshdk]

Actual IP address would be great. With CDNs being used it would help in identifying problem causing server.
Everytime ExoPlayer downloads a segment, it could pass on the IP address of the server supplying the segment as part of Format class.

[ojw28]

I understand what you're trying to do. I'm saying the actual IP address doesn't appear to be exposed by the underlying network stack, which is why I'm asking whether the URL after redirection is sufficient.

The CDN I have most experience working with redirects to URLs that are machine specific, so having the resolved URL would be fine. I suspect most (all?) CDNs do this, and if so the resolved URL should be fine for your purposes. Can you confirm whether or not this is the case?

[vishveshdk]

I understand now, It should be good enough.

[ojw28]

Updated the title to reflect the enhancement we'll provide for this.

• The URL after redirection will be reported through AdaptiveMediaSourceEventListener's onLoadCompleted method, and possibly onLoadCanceled and onLoadError in the case that the cancelation or error occurs after the connection has been established.
• We may also want to report the URL after redirection via something in ExtractorMediaSource.EventListener.

[ojw28]

Reassigning to @tonihei as this is (primarily) analytics related.

[tonihei]

That's relatively easy to implement. @ojw28's comment above is a little bit outdated as we made some changes to the media source event reporting.

The updated version is:

• The URL after redirection will be reported through MediaSourceEventListener's callbacks (as above in onLoadCompleted and if applicable also in onLoadCanceled and onLoadError ).
• The URl will be a new additional field in the LoadEventInfo parameter.