API Routes Handling I'm currently delving into routes and handling them but I have problems finding how to hand the process off to a middleware like express-routers. I want to essentially just forward every request to the express-router but I currently have 2 roadblocks: 1. the route parameter seems to not allow for wildcards 2. methods don't support handling all event types Maybe I just miss something obvious or what I want to do is impossible, feel free to correct me 😄

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Akanixon1/15/2023

API Routes Handling

I'm currently delving into routes and handling them but I have problems finding how to hand the process off to a middleware like express-routers.
I want to essentially just forward every request to the express-router but I currently have 2 roadblocks:
1. the route parameter seems to not allow for wildcards
2. methods don't support handling all event types

Maybe I just miss something obvious or what I want to do is impossible, feel free to correct me 😄

241/15/2023

what is your reasoning behind using express-router

241/15/2023

the point of api plugin is to avoid using express

241/15/2023

you either should use the API plugin, or write your own plugin using express. Don't mix the two.

241/15/2023

I'm curious to hear why you need wildcards and all event types (which I don't get?)

Favna1/15/2023

This calls for https://youtu.be/nSKp2StlS6s

Akanixon1/15/2023

I love it 😄

Akanixon1/15/2023

mainly because I couldn't figure out how to have multiple levels to the path without having to create a new file for every possible route.
like /v1/*
which is handling some endpoints and then a new router for a larger subcategory /v1/utilities

Akanixon1/15/2023

but I guess thats a bad aproach

241/15/2023

you can export multiple pieces from 1 file

241/15/2023

not necessarily a bad approach

241/15/2023

but I also have questions on why you'd want versioning on what would most likely be a private api (dashboard api)

Akanixon1/15/2023

mainly because I want to have two versions a productive and a development without having to run 2 bots

241/15/2023

that's a really weird thing to do IMHO

241/15/2023

but not me, so don't care

241/15/2023

I would just make 2 methods in the file that have different routes but same logic

Akanixon1/15/2023

the bot integrates with game servers which have their api updated more often. but guess I could just have a second bot

Favna1/15/2023

why would you want your bot to have versioned routing though

Favna1/15/2023

is your bot's API going to be consumed by external people?

Akanixon1/15/2023

yes

241/15/2023

I mean I'm hypocrite here because I do have versioning too

241/15/2023

but I also have a public API

241/15/2023

sooo

Favna1/15/2023

if your API is going to be consumed by external people you shouldn't integrate it into your bot IMHO

Favna1/15/2023

if the only reason is Discord OAUTH2 then you should make tiny API on your bot using plugin-api that is called from your other external API that is build separately

241/15/2023

yeah I am going down that route

241/15/2023

but I am not quite arsed yet

Akanixon1/15/2023

😄

Akanixon1/15/2023

yeah The api directly talks to some servers using rcon and some using telnet I guess I don't need that part inside the discord bot

241/15/2023

rcon through a discord bot 😬

241/15/2023

hope you encrypt those passwords!!

Akanixon1/15/2023

I don't even take passwords but yeah sadly those servers don#t support encrypted passwords using rcon

241/15/2023

I meant storage wise

241/15/2023

rcon as a protocol doesn't support encryption

Akanixon1/15/2023

if it wouldn't be for the community they wouldn't even be accessible from the outside other than rdp

Akanixon1/15/2023

but hey thanks for opening my eyes and thanks for creating sapphire, even though some parts of the documentation are missleading

241/15/2023

oh I didn't create sapphire

241/15/2023

if you have ideas or suggestions on certain parts of where we can improve docs, that'd be great

Favna1/15/2023

That credit goes to the blue people here

241/15/2023

yeah I pr'd stuff but then I broke everything

241/15/2023

don't thank me 😎

Akanixon1/15/2023

btw I previously used autocode, if you know that platform, but switched to selfhosting after they changed my 20€/m cost to 669€/m a week ago 😄

Favna1/15/2023

you're the second person to switch and end up here but I've never heard of the platform before

Akanixon1/15/2023

there might be more 😄 but most don't say that

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