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printz said:
Does this mean there'll be mobile apps for /idgames? :)

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AlexMax said:
This API looks fantastic. Nice work.

However, calling it a REST API is kind of a misnomer. REST API's usually don't have a single endpoint, preferring a structured URL hierarchy. REST also makes heavy use of HTTP verbs, and this API seems to not care about which HTTP verb is used, instead delegating operations to the action parameter. This looks to me more like some sort of RPC that uses query parameters instead of a JSON or XML payload.

Again, fantastic work...it's just probably not a good idea to call it "REST".

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kb1 said:
I'd like to see another function: GetLatestID, which would return the highest id number. I suppose I could derive it from "getlatestfiles", but it's a bit more work, and, tricky if no new files are within the date range.

Once again, very nice - good job!

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Mista_T said:
If you are looking for a date or length of time into the past, I think that would be doable. I'd probably put it in latestfiles, but as an alternative to "limit".

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kb1 said:
I was kinda hoping to get the actual last id number (you know, something like SELECT Max(id) AS LatestId FROM Archive). I'm trying to do a periodic update of a local database I maintain. In this scenario, I would know that, the last time I ran my updater, the last id I captured was, say, 18000. So, today I might run a "GetLatestID" call, which might return 18105. I would then know I needed to download descriptions for 18001 thru 18105.

It could be done by date, if necessary, but, if given the choice, I'd prefer to use the id. Then, if I had to, I could run 2 updates on the same day, without having to check for duplicates in my local database, etc. More of a convenience than anything.

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DaniJ said:
Any chance of getting JSON output in addition to XML? XML is great and all but I would much prefer JSON for this sort of thing.

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DaniJ said:
Any chance of getting JSON output in addition to XML? XML is great and all but I would much prefer JSON for this sort of thing.

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AlexMax said:
Doomworld is running PHP 5.3.10. I would be very surprised if it didn't have JSON support compiled in.

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Mista_T said:
Houston, we have JSON. I repeat, we have JSON.

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Mista_T said:
Houston, we have JSON. I repeat, we have JSON.

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code:
"description":"A fairly detailed map for Doom2. Inspired by
Fredik Johansson's incredible Vrack series. This map may cause a lot
of problems on slower computers. If your computer is slower than PII
200 Mhz, don't even try to play this level, sorry :\",

code:
http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=

code:
http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=

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RjY said:
Some suggestions / bug reports

Insufficient backslash escaping in json output

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not all fields are always defined

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index.php in url (cosmetic)

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MTrop said:
Houston, we have JSON. I repeat, we have JSON.

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code:
curl "http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/api/api.php?action=get&id=17259" \
 | xxd - | less
...
00000f0: 332d 3036 2d32 393c 2f64 6174 653e 3c61  3-06-29</date><a
0000100: 7574 686f 723e 5a6f 6c74 c3a1 6e20 53c3  uthor>Zolt..n S.
0000110: b366 616c 7669 2028 5a38 3629 3c2f 6175  .falvi (Z86)</au
0000120: 7468 6f72 3e3c 656d 6169 6c3e 7a65 7261  thor><email>zera

code:
curl "http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/api/api.php?action=get&id=17259&out=json" \
  | xxd - | less
...
0000090: 3a22 3230 3133 2d30 362d 3239 222c 2261  :"2013-06-29","a
00000a0: 7574 686f 7222 3a22 5a6f 6c74 e16e 2053  uthor":"Zolt.n S
00000b0: f366 616c 7669 2028 5a38 3629 222c 2265  .falvi (Z86)","e

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MTrop said:
Okay. I've sent off the change to bloodshedder.

If you see the date at the top of the API page changed to 9/19/2013, it's been applied.

EDIT: Okay - looks like we're good here. Not sure if PHP is sending back the correct encoding headers, but according to Fiddler2, it's readable as UTF-8. Are you able to double-check?

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code:
wget -O - "http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/api/api.php?action=get&id=17259&out=json" | xxd | less
{snip}
00000a0: 7574 686f 7222 3a22 5a6f 6c74 c3a1 6e20  uthor":"Zolt..n 
00000b0: 53c3 b366 616c 7669 2028 5a38 3629 222c  S..falvi (Z86)",

code:
$ wget --spider --server-response "http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/api/api.php?action=get&id=17259&out=json"
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2013-09-21 11:17:25--  http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/ap...=17259&out=json
Resolving www.doomworld.com... 38.68.5.148
Connecting to www.doomworld.com|38.68.5.148|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 18:17:22 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.2.23 (Unix) PHP/5.4.10
  X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.10
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=500
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: application/json
Length: unspecified [application/json]