lemmy/crates/api_common
Dessalines 16a82862b8
Allow empty string to clear URL-type DB fields. (#4780)
* Allow empty string to clear URL-type DB fields.

- To address difficulties with clearing URL-type fields like
  avatars, banners, site icons, this PR turns the URL type form
  fields into strings.
- This allows an empty string to be used as a "clear data", as
  in the case with the regular text form fields.
- Also includes various cleanups.
- Fixes #4777
- Context: #2287

* Fixing comment.

* Use Option<&str> and deref.

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Co-authored-by: SleeplessOne1917 <28871516+SleeplessOne1917@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-06-06 09:55:08 -04:00
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src Allow empty string to clear URL-type DB fields. (#4780) 2024-06-06 09:55:08 -04:00
Cargo.toml Upgrade dependencies (#4740) 2024-05-23 10:55:20 -04:00
README.md Get rid of remaining Perform/SendActivity traits (fixes #3670) (#3926) 2023-09-05 05:33:46 -04:00

README.md

lemmy_api_common

This crate provides all the data types which are necessary to build a client for Lemmy. You can use them with the HTTP client of your choice.

Here is an example using reqwest:

    let params = GetPosts {
        community_name: Some("asklemmy".to_string()),
        ..Default::default()
    };
    let client = Client::new();
    let response = client
        .get("https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/post/list")
        .query(&params)
        .send()
        .await?;
    let json = response.json::<GetPostsResponse>().await.unwrap();
    print!("{:?}", &json);

As you can see, each API endpoint needs a parameter type ( GetPosts), path (/post/list) and response type (GetPostsResponse). You can find the paths and handler methods from this file. The parameter type and response type are defined on each handler method.

For a real example of a Lemmy API client, look at lemmyBB.

Lemmy also provides a websocket API. You can find the full websocket code in this file.

Generate TypeScript bindings

TypeScript bindings (API types) can be generated by running cargo test --features full. The ts files be generated into a bindings folder.

This crate uses ts_rs macros derive(TS) and ts(export) to attribute types for binding generating.