REST API for ghost2-wrapper

[weakphish]

@cbryant02 mentioned exposing a REST API for the GUI wrapper to work through. I'd be happy to take a crack at this if given a little direction/place to start/some basic requirements, since I'm not terribly familiar with the code base beyond what I've contributed in command modules.

[zzzowoey]

As much as I would like to, I haven't had much time on my hands to focus on this project. Here are some basic ideas, though. I'll continue to expand on this as we go.

API outline

• [ ] GET requests
  • [ ] Bot ID
  • [ ] Operator ID
  • [ ] Uptime
  • [ ] Guild count

Handling events

Communicating events from the bot to the wrapper should be done over a WebSocket. Here's some example payloads.

User 195635151005417472 in guild 175928847299117063 ran g!wikipedia dog

{
    "timestamp": "2020-09-23T18:16:09+00:00",
    "event_type": "command",
    "event_data": {
        "name": "wikipedia",
        "args": { "dog" },
        "user_id": "195635151005417472",
        "guild_id": "175928847299117063"
   }
}

ghost2 made a request to the Wikipedia API for "dog"

{
    "timestamp": "2020-09-23T18:16:10+00:00",
    "event_type": "get",
    "event_data": {
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=dog&utf8=&format=json"
    }
}

Here's a handful of events to start with, including some data to attach to the payload.	Type	Data	Description
command	name, args, user_id, guild_id	A user invoked a command.
new_operator	user_id	A user became the bot operator.
music_create	guild_id	A MusicService was created.
music_queue	guild_id, track	A MusicService queued a track.
music_destroy	guild_id	A MusicService was destroyed.
get	url	A web request to an external API was made.

[weakphish]

I plan on working on this in November, when my semester ends as I pretty much have zero time outside of school. This is assuming nobody else takes up the task, to which they are of course welcome to 🙂