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kumasanmk (3 months ago) #31074802API v4 coming soon.

Be sure to give a heads-up when the API v4 will be stable! I'd love to get my hands on it. Is there already some documentation available?

kumasanmk (3 months ago) #31074802API v4 coming soon.

when soon? Would love to know. Shall proceed with some nice app dev

API v4 coming soon.

Looks like the api is gone... I was using it to show my collection in a neat way, but now I’m just getting error 404

I can see the v2 api is still there... but couldn’t find enough documentation for it.

Error 404 :(

Hello mates!

I just created a SDK for my own needs on Android : github.com/Ant-...

Feel free to use it, fork it, give suggetions, etc...

ney (3 years ago) #2389599To diminish complexity, i prefer to check what i looking for by interval [n;n+2] but it'll be better if the API give some option like separator/breaking string to separate each values or give the possibility to specify the values we want.
I haven't looked at the actual API itself yet but judging from your conversation, the proper solution would be to request an update to the API's JSON response to provide the various values as separate fields (in addition to the "display name" you see on the web) and let the client deal with the formatting of individual parts rather than try to parse the combined string. Especially if there is the potential for added new fields later down the road. Manual parsing is never a good long-term solution.

~Keripo

Climbatize (3 years ago) #2389382
The only problem with the split is that you can never know if a a figure will eventually be named with a dash in it. So I just focused my work splitting at the last "(" to remove manufacturer.
To diminish complexity, i prefer to check what i looking for by interval [n;n+2] but it'll be better if the API give some option like separator/breaking string to separate each values or give the possibility to specify the values we want.

ney (3 years ago) #2383775Yeah , finally it's more easy to code a Java/PHP/whatever method to catch every terms with a String as separator.
Since the return can had a variable length, using a regex to describe it can be really painful.Yes I used to split terms with " - " in first releases of My Figure Collection on Android. Now I leave it as is and I just split the manufacturer name, as you can see in this class: github.com/Clim...
The only problem with the split is that you can never know if a a figure will eventually be named with a dash in it. So I just focused my work splitting at the last "(" to remove manufacturer.

Luzai (4 years ago) #2097985It's a simple regex operation. In Objective C we have a helper method called componentsSeperatedByString: that I used to separate the string into an array. It needs to be " - ", with the spaces because some names have "-" in it too (eg Aa megami-sama - Belldandy - Everyone Has Wings Ver. (Kotobukiya)). The only reliable info you can pick out is the series name (it's always first) and the manufacturer (it's always in the parentheses).
For FigureCollector, I extracted these bits, stripped them from the result and displayed the rest as the figure's name so it shows up something like: "Belldandy - Everyone Has Wings Ver". You really need all the other info like scale size and model line (figma, etc) in the name to tell what figure it actually is. I found trying to extract that info to be unreliable and not really worth it. It'd probably be easier to scrape the HTML on the figure page.

Yeah , finally it's more easy to code a Java/PHP/whatever method to catch every terms with a String as separator.
Since the return can had a variable length, using a regex to describe it can be really painful.