Starling API

Sandeep (talk) 10:03, 18 February 2016 (IST)

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The aim of Starling REST API is to provide seamless access to developers integrating starling into their projects or designs.

Authentication

Starling API works on javascript web-tokens. The default validity for the tokens is 1 year. It will be changed to shorter duration soon.

If you own a starling, create an account here.

Base URL for all requests: http://starling.exploreembedded.com

Obtaining the token

http verb	Request	Response	Description
POST	/api/authenticate	token	Pass email and password as body parameter to obtain a web token

Example with CURL

• Request

curl -X POST -F "email=your@email.com" -F "password=password" \ 
'http://starling.exploreembedded.com/api/authenticate'

• Response

{"token":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXUyJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIyIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0c
DpcL1wvc3RhcmxpbmcuZXhwbG9yZWVtYmVkasdfdsfNvbVwvYXBpXC9hdXRoZW50.
iwiZXhwIjoiMTQsdfeaeSEFEA0NiIsIm5iZiI6IjE0NTE1NjMwNDYiLCJqdGkiOiI4asdfew}

Using Postman Client

Install chrome app Postman from app store and follow below screen shot to get authentication token.

updated token image

Device Registration

Every API request should include the token obtained above as a parameter in url or header.

http verb	Request	Response	Description
GET	/api/starlings	returns all the starlings registered for the given user	validates the user and returns any starlings registered in JSON
GET	/api/starling/{id}	returns a particular starling	validates the user and returns the given starling data as JSON
PUT	/api/starling/{id}	edits a particular starling	the parameter need to send as form or url encoded data
DEL	/api/starling/{id}	deletes the starling with the given ID	use with caution
POST	/api/starling	pass the parameters in the form body	Creates a new starling after validating the data

Messaging

Every API request should include the token obtained above as a parameter in url or header.

http verb	Request	Response	Description
POST	api/message/queue	success or failure	Adds a message to the queue. 50 messages are stored for every starling. This is handy to queue and display twitter feed. A message is picked from the queue every 2 minutes, displayed and deleted. The post data should contain the following starling_id message source
GET	api/messages/{starling_id}	json array	Gets all messages stored for a particular starling

API To Do List

Below response yet to be configured in API's. same changes will be done for put,post and delete

http verb	Request	Response	Description
GET	/api/starling/{id}	returns a particular starling with scrolling speed and font size	{ "id": "00-1B-63-84-45-E6", "user_id": "6", "name": "strling", "product_id": "123", "location": "", "created_at": "2016-01-27 12:36:34", "updated_at": "2016-01-27 12:36:34", "scroll_speed": "99", "style": "bold", "default_msg": "Hi Sterling" }