🚢 Battleship Server!

This is a project for my CS2 class. Below is information on the encoding used.

Key

Symbol	Meaning
⬆️	Send to server
⬇️	Receive from server

Creating and Joining Games

⬆️ Get Gamecode

GETGAMECODE

Asks the server for a gamecode to create a game.

Examples:

• GETGAMECODE

⬇️ Gamecode

GAMECODE <gamecode>

Get a gamecode from the server

Examples:

• GAMECODE 123456

⬆️ Join

JOIN <gamecode>

Joins a game. Examples:

• JOIN 123456

⬇️ Join

JOIN [success|fail]

Says if game was successfully joned to the client who attempted to join the game.

Examples:

• JOIN success
• JOIN fail

Transmitting Game Data

⬆️ Send Board

SENDBOARD <ship1x> <ship1y> <ship2x> <ship2y> <ship3x> <ship3y> <ship4x> <ship4y> <ship5x> <ship5y> Sends your player's boards Examples:

• SENDBOARD 1 2 1 4 2 5 3 1

⬇️ Move First

MOVEFIRST <yes|no>

Tells you if you go first.

Examples

• MOVEFIRST yes
• MOVEFIRST no

⬆️ Move

MOVE [surrender|<x><y>]

Sends a move

Examples:

• MOVE 2 3
• MOVE surrender

⬇️ Move

MOVE [hit|miss|surrendered] <x> <y>

Tells both players what happened during the last move

Examples:

• MOVE 2 3 hit
• MOVE 2 3 miss
• MOVE surrendered
• MOVE fail

⬇️ End of Game

GAMEEND <win|lose>

Tells you if you won or lost.

NOTE: After this is sent, the game object is deleted and the game cannot be resumed. You must request a new gamecode with (GETGAMECODE)[#arrow_up-get-gamecode], or join a game with (JOIN)[#arrow_up-join].

Examples:

• GAMEEND win
• GAMEEND lose

Sample Game:

Speaker	Message
Client 1	GETGAMECODE
Server	GAMECODE 123456
Client 2	JOIN 123456
Server(C2)	JOIN success
Client 1	SENDBOARD 1 5 2 3 4 3 1 2
Client 2	SENDBOARD 1 2 1 4 2 5 3 1
Server(C1)	MOVEFIRST yes
Server(C2)	MOVEFIRST no
Client 1	MOVE 1 2
Server	MOVE hit 1 2
Client 2	MOVE 2 2
Server	MOVE miss 2 2
	Continues MOVE communications until game is over.
Server(C1)	GAMEEND win 2
Server(C2)	GAMEEND lose 2