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Chapter: Days 97-99: Building JSON APIs
Lecture: What API operations are required?
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Now before we write some code and we're going to do
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some pretty interesting things, I think,
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in terms of organization and the way
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we put this all together but let's just think
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at a really high level, what operations
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does our website need to support?
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So we'll talk about how to build these.
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But let's just sit back and think about,
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if you can remember back to our 15-way persistent
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Rock Paper Scissors, pretty recent,
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we had a couple of things that were happening in that game.
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Here's what I think we're going to need to do in order
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to move all the logic and persistence to the server
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and still let the client communicate with it.
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So first of all, you're going to need to be able to
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register a user or get an existing user
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and I broke those apart you know, with a website,
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it just kind of seemed like you should either
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kind of login or register as two separate things.
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You can put them separate or if you want to,
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you can combine them back like we had get or create user.
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We want to start a new game, now this is really important
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because what we're going to do is we're going to create
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basically an id for the game and all subsequent
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operations will exchange that game id as part of
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who they are and how they're interacting so if you ask
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for, show me the history, who won, play a round,
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you're going to pass around this id that
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we get by starting a new game,
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we will show the rolls and let the user pick
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the rolls from an existing list.
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Now we could just hard code the 15 rolls into the client
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but what if we want to someday upgrade it?
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Maybe around St. Paddy's Day, you could throw a leprechaun
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and you want to make that a feature of the game,
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you want to add it, it just automatically have everybody
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pick those up or you want to convert it to 25-way
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Rock Paper Scissors or something along those lines.
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So we're going to get the rolls from the server
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so that we're always consistent
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with what the server expects.
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We can ask, what is the game status?
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Most importantly, is it over and who won and things
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like that but this will kind of give us the history
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and the status of whether it's over and so on
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and finally one of the critical parts
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is actually playing a round.
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I want to roll the devil and see what happens, right.
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We'll have a computer player on the other side
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and they'll randomly choose something and you'll see
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if they win, whether you win and so on.
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But this is sort of the playing of the game
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and we'll just play the rounds until
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we find out that the game is over.
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And finally, one of the fun things we had in the original
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game, the persistent one, was when it started it showed
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that the players with the top scores.
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Of course, those were just the players on your machine
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that you happened to have played previously.
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We're going to add a top scores operation so basically
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you get the global top scores and you can be ranked
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in the top ten, in the entire world in 15way
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Rock Paper Scissors demo app, wouldn't that be cool?
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So you'll be able to see that here, as it comes along.
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So these are the operations we're going to build in Flask.
