lemmy/crates/api_common
Dessalines 985fe24669
Get rid of Safe Views, use serde_skip (#2767)
* Get rid of Safe Views, use serde_skip

- Also change the ViewToVec, to work with non-vector cases. Might be
  necessary in preparation for #2763
- Fixes #2712

* Forgot one safe

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Co-authored-by: Nutomic <me@nutomic.com>
2023-03-01 18:19:46 +01:00
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src Get rid of Safe Views, use serde_skip (#2767) 2023-03-01 18:19:46 +01:00
Cargo.toml Organize utils into separate files. Fixes #2295 (#2736) 2023-02-16 05:05:14 +01:00
README.md Add documentation for using Lemmy API from Rust (#2639) 2023-01-03 03:23:41 -05:00

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 parameter types from this file. For the response types you need to look through the crates lemmy_api and lemmy_api_crud for the place where Perform/PerformCrud is implemented for the parameter type. The response type is specified as a type parameter on the trait.

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.