An attempt at making the meanscout api in rust for maybe better safety. Can't be too easy to make.
(and honestly I trust this version a lot more)
This network API backend is made for the companion webapp we forked from Aidan Linerud of FRC Team 2471, Meanscout. The exact version of Meanscout we use is under the main branch located here. The API is made to intake and process the data coming from Meanscout. It will then put it into the file data.csv.
In the future I plan on putting it on crates.io so you can just run cargo install meanscout or something along those lines
You can just use it by running cargo run --release in the directory the project is located
To build it from source you first need to have rust installed, and use the command cargo build --release while in the project directory
When it is done building, the binary will be located in /target/release/ as the executable meanapi
All of the configuration that you should need is located in Config.toml.
To change the ip or ports to run on just change the variable in Config.toml as shown
ip_address = [0,0,0,0] # Each digit is each octet in the ip address
port = 8000Changing the passwords requires changing the password variable in settings.toml. You add or remove strings to the list to add or remove possible passwords.
passwords = ["ChangeMe!", "AnotherPassword!"]The current logging system is set of macros that are called when something happens. This writes whether it was successful, or if something wrong happened into the file logs/meanscout.log, or a different location configured in Config.toml.
If you would like to contribute to the project you can do any of the following.
- Make a fork and commit and merge your changes
- Add anything like bugs or things you'd like added to the issues page
Special thanks to Joseph Melancon for kicking off our teams digital scouting efforts, advising us, and much more