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Chapter: Days 97-99: Building JSON APIs
Lecture: Implementing the create-game method
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How's our create game operation working,
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here we're going to do a post of this.
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This says we would create a new game.
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If you think about how the way that
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our data base actually works,
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there's not actually a lot of integrity
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around this game concept and
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we maybe could create some more models
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and put them in there but one of my goals of this
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is to change as little as possible
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about the models and data access layer
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and the other stuff we've already done
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and just to adapt it to online.
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Not exactly possible but it is very, very close.
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What we really need to do here
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is to just create a unique id that can be shared.
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Okay? And it turns out we can do that super easily.
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So we're going to create a dictionary.
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In our dictionary we're going to have a game id
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and how do we get it it?
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It's going to be a UUID,
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which is a standard library thing
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we got to import at the top
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and there's UUID4,
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which is a great random thing we could use
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but we're just going to create
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a string representation of it
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and give that back.
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Let's save this,
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it should reload if everything worked out.
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Instead of saying "would create a game"
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what do we get?
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Boom. There is a very unique looking game id
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that we can then use for all subsequent requests
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to correlate or relate the various operations
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between say playing around,
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getting the game status,
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things like that.
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So that's it.
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Create a game,
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just create a random identifier that we can use
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that is pretty unique.
