BYONDTopic

BYONDTopic is a .NET Standard 2.1 package for interfacing with BYOND servers VIA world topic calls.

Installation

You can install the package from Nuget.

Usage

The API is designed to be very simple to use, and can be consumed in one of the two following ways. Note that the object returned from the Query method is a QueryResponse object, which could contain be a textual TextQueryResponse, or a float FloatQueryResponse.

using ByondTopic;
< ... >
var topic = new TopicSource("bagil.tgstation13.org", 2337);
var queryResponse = topic.Query("status");
var keyValueDictionary = queryResponse.AsText.AsDictionary;

// If we called AsText here, this would throw a null exception as the response
// of AsText would be null.
var queryResponseFloat = topic.Query("playing");
var floatValue = queryResponseFloat.AsFloat.Response;

Or

using ByondTopic;
< ... >
var topic = new TopicSource("byond.paradisestation.org", 6666);
var queryResponse = topic.QueryJson<Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string>>>("manifest");

Note that the QueryJson method is just a convenient wrapper for deserializing returned JSON using System.Text.Json. Also note that it will throw an exception if the response to the wrapped Query is not a TextQueryResponse.

If given an invalid command, response, or server, the package will typically throw a InvalidResponseException which can be anticipated and consumed for error handling.