simulation-goclient

Go client for interacting with the 3DSIM simulation api. See http://docs.simulationapi.apiary.io for full API documentation. Issues and PRs are welcome. If you are a 3DSIM customer and have questions, feel free to visit https://community.3dsim.com to start a discussion.

Technical Specifications

Platforms Supported

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

Background Info

We use https://goswagger.io to generate our Go APIs and clients. This allows us to build our APIs in a "design first" manner.

First we create a swagger.yaml file that defines the API. Then we run a command to generate the server code.

Additionally, this allows us to automatically generate client code. The code in this directory was all generated using the go-swagger tools.

Organization

• simulation - the client package that adds convenience methods for common simulation operations
• genclient - the generated client code
  • genclient/examples - examples of how to use the genclient package
• helpers - a few simple helper utilities
• models - the generated models

Regenerating code

First install the swagger generator. Currently we are using release 0.11.0 of https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger.

For mac users:

• brew tap go-swagger/go-swagger
• brew install go-swagger

For windows users:

• See https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger for options

The code generator needs a specification file. The specification for the simulation API is stored in github.com/3dsim/simulation-api-specification/swagger.yaml. Assuming that project is cloned as a sibling project, the command to run to generate new client code is:

swagger generate client -A SimulationAPI -f ../simulation-api-specification/swagger.yaml --client-package genclient

• Generate fakes using counterfeiter

go get github.com/maxbrunsfeld/counterfeiter

From inside package folder

go generate

• Generate mocks using https://github.com/vektra/mockery

go get github.com/vektra/mockery/.../
$GOPATH/bin/mockery -name <interface name> -recursive

If you need to generate mocks in the same package to avoid circular dependencies use

$GOPATH/bin/mockery -name <interface name> -recursive -inpkg

Using the client

TODO

Client to API version compatibility

Simulation API	Simulation Client
0.14.x	0.3.x

Contributors

• Tim Sublette
• Ryan Walls
• Chad Queen
• Pete Krull
• Alex Drinkwater

Original release

January 2017