dragonroll/documentation/docs/client/api.md

Client Api

ClientApi

The ClientApi object is used for interacting with everything related to the Dragonroll client. It is passed to the Main function at the entrypoint defined in the plugin.json file

createView

Creates a ClientView object from a Vue view defined inside the client/views folder

Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Description
path	String	yes	The path relative from client/views to the Vue view without the .vue extension

Returns

Type	Description
ClientView	The new created view

Example

// Supposing that we have /your-plugin-root/client/views/Calculator.vue
let calculatorView = Api.createView('Calculator');

createModule

Creates a ClientModule. The module needs to be later registered with the registerModule method to be loaded by Dragonroll. See creating a module

Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Description
id	String	yes	The identifier of the new module

Returns

Type	Description
ClientModule	The new ClientModule

Example

let dndModule = Api.createModule('dnd-5e');
dndModule.title = "Dungeons & Dragons 5e";
dndModule.description = "Dungeons & Dragons Fifth edition module";
dndModule.version = "1.0";
dndModule.color = "#e92026";
dndModule.icon = "icon.png";

createWindow

This method instances a new window from an already registered one. You can also pass custom parameters inside this method and then read them from your view.

Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Description
type	String (WindowType)	yes	The type of the new window
data	Object (WindowData)	no	Aditional data for the created window

Example

let databaseWindow = Api.registerWindow('database', Api.createView('Database'));

// Opens the database window
Api.createWindow(databaseWindow, {
  id: 'my-database-window',
  title: "My Database",
  custom: [
    {
      data: "This is custom data"
    }
  ]
})

clearWindow

Clears the window with the specified id

Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Description
id	String	yes	The id of the window to clear

Example

Api.createWindow(databaseWindow, {
  id: 'my-database-window',
  title: "My Database",
  close: () => {
    // When the close button is pressed, clear the window
    Api.clearWindow('my-database-window');
  }
})

registerModule

Registers an already created module to Dragonroll

Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Description
module	ClientModule	yes	The module to register

Example

let dndModule = Api.createModule('dnd-5e');
...
api.registerModule(dndModule);

registerWindow

Registers a new window to Dragonroll and returns the registered id

Parameters

Property	Type	Required	Description
name	String	yes	The name of the new window
view	ClientView	yes	The view that contains the window

Returns

Type	Description
String (WindowType)	The registered type of window

Example

let databaseWindow = Api.registerWindow('database', Api.createView('Database'));

router

socket

ClientModule