Vements Client Library for C#

The Vements Client Library for C# is a C# library for accessing the Vements API. It also includes a command line tool that can be used to interact with the API in scripts or in a terminal.

Documentation

See the Getting Started Guide for more information on how to use this library.

Installation

The package is available on NuGet.

To install the Vements Client Library for C#, use the following command:

$ dotnet add package Vements.API --version 0.0.3

Usage

The following example shows how to use the Vements Client Library for C# to create a new Vements client, and then use that client to create a new Vements scoreboard.

using Vements.API;

... 

var client = vements.Client();
var scoreboard = client.create_scoreboard(display="My Scoreboard", rank_dir="desc", public=False);

Command Line Tool

The Vements Client Library for C# includes a command line tool that can be used to interact with the Vements API. The command line tool supports all of the same operations as the API.

Build

To build the CLI:

$ dotnet publish -c release -r osx-arm64 --self-contained

Substitute osx-arm64 with the appropriate runtime identifier for your platform, e.g.: linux-x64, linux-arm64, win-x64, win-arm64, etc.

Usage

$ vements --help
Achievements and scoreboards for everyone

Usage: vements [command] [options]

Options:
  --api-key       API Key
  --verbose       Verbose output
  -?|-h|--help    Show help information.

Commands:
  achievement     Achievement operations
  api-version     Show API version
  client-version  Show client library version
  participant     Participant operations
  scoreboard      Scoreboard operations

Run 'vements [command] -?|-h|--help' for more information about a command.

The C# CLI tool supports all of the same operations as the CLI tool in other languages:

• achievement CRUD, list, leaderboard, record progress
• participant CRUD, list, progress, scores
• scoreboard CRUD, list, scoreboard, record score

The above commands all support the following options:

• --api-key to specify the API key
• --verbose to show verbose output

In addition to resource commands, these common commands are also supported:

• api-version to show the API version
• client-version to show the client library version

The library and CLI both support the following environment variables:

• API_KEY to specify the API key
• SERVER_TAGS to specify the tags used to select the server URL