Server agent #3342
Server agent #3342
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The idea is simple - make a call to a remote method with some JSON data, call a success function with some JSON data when its done, or call a fail function. This is deliberately not a generic HTTP client. Two flavours here: the real thing that makes HTTP calls, and the Null one which just does nothing
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That's cool, I guess I'll need to make sure we have a version of libcurl in thirdparty for VS2013 users. |
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@robn web-agent branch has vs2013 fixes on it and PR for pioneerspacesim/pioneer-thirdparty#12 |
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Thanks @fluffyfreak. I'll merge pioneer-thirdparty when this is merged. And on that note, any particular objections to this? If not, I'll merge this evening! |
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I might update the I have no objections but I think it might need some documentation on what you can use it for :) |
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Well at this point nothing, because there's no server. Or from another angle, EVERYTHING, just a simple matter of programming :) I have some ideas for a kind of player/community site with hooks into the game, but its nothing more than ideas and some paper notes. There's also things like querying for updates, sending in hardware info, that sort of thing. But obviously, needs server and client code. Its a building block :) |
I've been talking about this for two years. Finally time to add it to master so I can think about building on top of it.
Basic usage is documented at http://pioneerwiki.com/wiki/ServerAgent
This is deliberately disabled to start with, to allow us to experiment. At some later time we'll work out the process for enabling it, where the server is, privacy concerns, etc. I don't want to this PR to get bogged down in those details.
It needs build stuff for MSVC. http://curl.haxx.se/download.html has libcurl binaries.