snowcollege/gameoflife-server repository overview

Run your own server to test your app with the following command:

docker run -it --rm -p 0.0.0.0:80:80 snowcollege/gameoflife-server

Then open a web browser and go to http://localhost⁠

Your client needs to:

1. post to /register and send

    {
        "name": "your name"
    } 
   

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   in the body. You will receive back a token that needs to be included in all future messages.

2. Before you recieve the board post to /update with an UpdateRequest in the following format:

   Content-type: application/json

    {
        "token": "your assigned token",
        "generationsComputed": 0
    }
   

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   before the game starts you will recieve a response like once the game starts you will recieve

3. generations computed (where x is the generation submited):

   x == 0:

    We assume you are waiting, when the game starts we will reply with the board and start your individual timer
   

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   0 <= x <= last_generation:

    Your board is in progress, you should send an update once a second
   

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   x == last_generation:

    you will be marked as completed, you must also provide the final board. 
    {
        "token": "your token",
        "GenerationsComputed": <last_generation>,
        "ResultBoard": [
            {
                "x": 1,
                "y": 1
            }
        ]
    }
        
   

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   You will get a response back with a gameState ("NotStarted"), generationsToCompute (nullable int), seedBoard (list of Coordinates), isError (bool), errorMessage (string) You need to continue to post to /update every 1 second.

Once the game has begun the gameState will become "InProgress", seedBoard will have the initial list of live cells, and generationsToCompute will have a value.