API Example for Wi Wilson.lua

json = require("rapidjson") -- Load the rapidjson library to parse the responses.
queryTimer = Timer.New()

-- Setup your server details here:
Server = {
  Address = "127.0.0.1",  -- The address of the server
  --Port = 80,  -- Optional, the port to connect on. Defaults to 80.
  Timeout = 5,  -- Time to wait for a responce before throwing an error.
  QueryInterval = 10  -- How often to poll the endpoint. This should probably be longer than the timeout.
}

-- A generic function to generate a query for the server.
function queryServer(Query, Params)
  print(("Sending query '%s' to server."):format(Query))
  HttpClient.Download{
    Url = HttpClient.CreateUrl{
      Host = "http://" .. Server.Address, Port = Server.Port, Path = "api/delta/rpc/" .. Query,
      Query = Params
    },
    Timeout = Server.Timeout,
    EventHandler = function(t, c, d, e, h)
      if c == 200 then
        local responce = json.decode(d)
        -- We can put some code in here to do useful things with the data. For now we will just print the results:
        if responce.msg:find("getShortStatus called OK") then
          print(("Got ShortStatus. Time: %s, Mode: %s"):format(responce.data.time, responce.data.mode))
        end
        
      else
        print(("Error retreiving data: %d, %s"):format(c, e))
      end
    end
  }
end

-- Setup out timer event.
queryTimer.EventHandler = function()
  queryServer("getShortStatus", {tl = 1, smpte = "false"})
end

-- Start the timer once we have everything ready.
queryTimer:Start(Server.QueryInterval)