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Chapter: Days 97-99: Building JSON APIs
Lecture: Implementing the client
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Okay, let's come over here
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and close the story on the web
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and go to our client.
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And we're going to use Uplink,
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so we're going to put that in our requirements on txt
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and let's add a game app, call it game_app.
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That's the thing that you're going to play.
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And let's separate our API definition
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from our UI, which is kind of this.
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So let's do a quick main.
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Do a little bit of skeleton code here,
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get that running.
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Okay, this is our little game_app.
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Let's add another one called api.
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And this over here is where we're going to use Uplink.
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So we're going to import uplink
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and we have not installed those have we?
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So let's go over here to client
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and run the same code.
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There PyCharm is less unhappy, let's say.
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So what we're going to do is we're going to
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define a class over here using Uplink
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and remember the way it goes,
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this is going to be a GameService
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and the way it works is it's going to be uplink.consumer
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and then we just define methods.
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Like def find_user.
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We put in the user name
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and then down here we just have nothing
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but we put in this at uplink.get
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and then it's something like
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API game users username.
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Now they use curly braces which I prefer over here,
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where as Flask uses angle brackets
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but whatever it's all the same.
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The other little trick that
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we'll have to do here is to define an init
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and set the base URL to wherever it is.
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Something like 5000.
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Let's add another one here.
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This time for all rolls,
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remember that's doing a get against api/games/rolls.
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It gets more interesting, code word for complicated.
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If we're going to do a create game,
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we're going to do a post up to API games game games
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and we're going to pass a body
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of just a dictionary as a body.
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But let's just go over here
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and let's just see if we can get this
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all rolls thing to work for a second.
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You've got to import that and we'll just say all_rolls.
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Now remember what we get back here
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is we're going to get a response.
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It's going to be okay but not amazing.
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200 response, 200 that's already good right?
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And if that's true we could do a JSON here like this
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and we get boom, look at that.
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It's already working, that is so super cool.
