Use Proxer API for most requests

kumpelblase2 / proxtop

An experimental proxer.me desktop client for doing the most common things.

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Use Proxer API for most requests #113

Closed kumpelblase2 closed 7 years ago

kumpelblase2 commented 7 years ago

This is mostly just a heads up that this is being worked on.

This currently has the top priority on my list. Once this is done it will also result in a new release.

Purpose:

The proxer API is now actually available. To avoid running into parsing problems and possibly lowering the load on the site, migrating to the API is from my point of view a mandatory change. This also guarantees future compatibility so the application won't break "randomly" anymore.

Even though this is a bigger change, I'd be really appreciate feedback or improvments.

kumpelblase2 commented 7 years ago

Current TODO-List before being done:

[x] Make message checks incremental
[x] ~~Update watchlist to use the API~~
[x] Display a little info when we're rate limited in the UI
[x] Clean up old code that is no longer used (but was so far kept for reference)

I will not support streams via the API for now. Reason being is that the Proxer-Streams would be missing and proxtop doesn't support many other services to make up for that gap. As soon as the api is available for that I'll switch it over.

kumpelblase2 commented 7 years ago

I won't be updating all parts of the watchlist to use the API for now. See my explanation on b85667c850c618ac3f7ccbcdcbbd9f79710cf0b9 as to why.

This however marks a good point: this is getting ready for merge. I'm not planning on doing a release straight away, but I want to get something out for people to test. So I'll provide a beta build you can download. It's gonna have issues, but that's the whole point; to try things out. A full release will probably follow late january/febuary. That's my plan anyway. But no promises, it depends on how much time I can set aside.

kumpelblase2 commented 7 years ago

:tada: