PinguApps.Appwrite.Client 0.2.0

Appwrite SDK

This repository contains the source to both the Client and Server .net implimentation for Appwrite API. This is not a first party SDK, rather a third party SDK.

🚧 Work in Progress

This is a work in progress. There are 2 SDK's - one for client and another for server.

🔧 Installation

It is recommended to install just the client SDK into client-side projects, and both the client and server SDK into server side projects.

Client SDK

Install-Package PinguApps.Appwrite.Client

or in the Nuget package manager, search for PinguApps.Appwrite.Client (ensure you are searching for prerelease versions)

Server SDK

Install-Package PinguApps.Appwrite.Server

or in the Nuget package manager, search for PinguApps.Appwrite.Server

🚀 Usage

Once the package(s) are installed, you will need to add everything to your DI container. Thankfully, there's an extension method making this simple.

DI Container

Client SDK

There are 2 extension methods for the client SDK. One intended for client side usage, and the other for server side usage. The only difference is the lifetimes used in the DI container.

For client side:

services.AddAppwriteClient("Project_Id");

For Server side:

services.AddAppwriteClientForServer("Project_Id");

This will assume that you are using Appwrite in the cloud. If you are not, then you can specify your endpoint as the second parameter, which is optional. Additionally, for finer control, you can specify your own RefitSettings as the third parameter.

Server SDK

services.AddAppwriteServer("Project_Id", "Api_Key");

This will assume that you are using Appwrite in the cloud. If you are not, then you can specify your endpoint as the second parameter, which is optional. Additionally, for finer control, you can specify your own RefitSettings as the third parameter.

Injecting

To inject the SDK, you will need to request either an IAppwriteClient or IAppwriteServer, depending on which you are working with and need.

public class App
{
    private readonly IAppwriteClient _client;
    private readonly IAppwriteServer _server;

    public App(IAppwriteClient client, IAppwriteServer server)
    {
        _client = client;
        _server = server;
    }
}

Sessions (Client only)

The Client SDK will manage sessions for you. You can set the current session with:

_client.SetSession("SessionToken");

Making Calls

Both SDK's are split up into sections, matching the Appwrite Docs.

To make a call to get the current logged in account on the client SDK, you can do this with:

var user = await _client.Account.Get();

To create an account with the Server SDK, it might look like this:

var request = new CreateAccountRequest
{
    Email = "pingu@example.com",
    Password = "MySuperSecretPassword",
    Name = "Pingu"
};

var user = await _server.Account.Create(request);

Handling the result

The result object is made up of a Result property, as well as some bool's to assist in determining the success or failure. The Result Property will be one of 3 different types, depending on what happened.

All following examples will be based on the following preceeding them:

var userResponse = await _client.Account.Get();

We can determine if the call we made was successful or not by checking userResponse.Success. If this is true, the Result will be an object of the type returned from the API, in this case it will be of type User.

If userResponse.Success is false, then userResponse.IsError will be true (which we could also use to check the inverse).

If we have errored, then there might be 2 sources for the error. One would be Appwrite throwing an error, and the other would be internal - within the SDK. This could be a bug with the SDK, or invalid input provided to it.

If userResponse.IsAppwriteError is true, then Result will be of type AppwriteError.

If userResponse.IsInternalError is true, then Result will be of type InternalError.

We can switch on the result type, allowing us to perform different logic based on the success status.

userResponse.Result.Switch(
    account => Console.WriteLine(account.Email),
    appwriteError => Console.WriteLine(appwriteError.Message),
    internalError => Console.WriteLine(internalError.Message)
);

We can also pull out the known type of the response:

if(userResponse.Success)
{
    var email = userResponse.Result.AsT0.Email;
}

Finally, we can return something different depending on what type it is:

string emailAddressOrErrorMessage = userResponse.Result.Match(
    account => account.Email,
    appwriteError => appwriteError.Message,
    internalError => internalError.Message
);

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