leaderboard

a cloud service, written in java, as standalone and as smartfoxserver 2x extension, within FI-Content2. It allows to post and retrieve high scores of games.

API specification: http://wiki.mediafi.org/doku.php/ficontent.gaming.enabler.leaderboard

Example usage: http://wiki.mediafi.org/doku.php/ficontent.gaming.enabler.leaderboard.developerguide

Setup server from standalone project

Requirements

The software was tested on Linux and Windows and should run on any platform supporting Java and MySQL.

Required java libraries

• Json library minimal-json
• Micro web framework Spark
• MySQL connector

Setup

Database

1. Install mysql server

2. Create a file config.properties, here is an example:

   # escape the characters #, !, =, and : with a preceding backslash
   
   # (local) address of database
   url = jdbc\:mysql\://localhost\:3306/
   
   # database user/password
   user = root
   password = secret123
   
   # logfile is optional
   logfile = log.txt
   

Server

1. Make sure you have java installed

2. Copy/clone the files in leaderboard-standalone

3a. Install the leaderboard as a service or 3b. start the server manually with leaderboard-standalone/bin/run.*

Testing

One good way to get started is to use the div/admin-and-test.html file. For further information, please refer to the [development guide] (http://wiki.mediafi.org/doku.php/ficontent.gaming.enabler.leaderboard.developerguide).