api create journal entry

Blacksmith createJournalEntry API

Audience: Modules (e.g. Regent) that build area, encounter, or location journals from JSON and must not import Blacksmith scripts/*.

Contract: Same behavior as Blacksmith's internal JSON journal import (implemented in utility-common.js). Call only after Foundry ready (GM creates documents).

const api = game.modules.get('coffee-pub-blacksmith')?.api;
if (!api?.createJournalEntry) return;
await api.createJournalEntry(journalData);

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createJournalEntry(journalData)

Parameters

• journalData (Object): Structured payload. Required: a journaltype string (case-insensitive) that selects the code path:
  • AREA — playable scene journal (blocks envelope; see prompt-journal-profile-area.txt). Area Narrative copy prompt: prompt-journal-core.txt + profile (JSON only). Images: Illustration Image (prompt-journal-visual-illustration.txt — proven ink-and-wash contract + [ADD-ILLUSTRATION-*] facets); Portrait Image (prompt-journal-visual-core.txt + prompt-journal-visual-portrait.txt + [ADD-PORTRAIT-*]).
  • ENCOUNTER — encounter journal (Blacksmith encounter template / legacy encounter JSON).
  • LOCATION — location encyclopedia journal (dedicated location template / folder rules). Location Import JSON copy is JSON-only (prompt-location.txt); generate card art with Illustration Image, then set locationimage on import.

Legacy NARRATIVE import is not supported (use AREA with blocks.*).

Optional / common fields (depending on type; align with Blacksmith JSON import):

• foldername — Journal folder name; folder is created under JournalEntry if missing.
• Area: realm, region, site, area, scenetitle, breadcrumb, blocks (preparation, area, encounter, conversations), etc.
• Encounter: realm, region, site, area, scenetitle, prepencounter, prepencounterdetails, preprewards, prepsetup, sections / cards, linkedEncounters, etc.
• Location: title, scenetitle, journalname, realm, region, site, area, locationimage / image, and other fields consumed by the location builder (see createLocationJournalEntry in utility-common.js).

Returns: Promise<JournalEntry> — the journal entry, so you can act on it directly:

const entry = await api.createJournalEntry(data);
entry.sheet.render(true);

All three types (AREA, ENCOUNTER, LOCATION) resolve to a JournalEntry. When an entry with the same name already exists, these builders update it in place rather than creating a duplicate — and return that existing entry, so the return value is a handle to the journal your data now lives in, whether or not this call created it.

Unsupported input throws rather than being handled internally — a NARRATIVE journaltype, any unrecognised type, missing required blocks, and template failures all throw — so wrap the call in try/catch.

Permissions: Creating folders and journal entries requires appropriate GM/world permissions, same as the in-app import.

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Related

• Window / UI: Use api.registerWindow / api.openWindow for Application V2 windows; see api-window.md.

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Implementation: scripts/utility-common.js (createJournalEntry).