arma-api

An unofficial API for developers of applications that utilise Arma 3 classnames and data from vanilla, DLC and common mod sources.

Disclaimer

I, the developer, and contributors to this project in no way own the game, term or any other asset related to the video game series Arma. That right belongs solely to Bohemia Interactive. This is a simple, free, open-source project to make development and gameplay of the game's mission making feature easier and does not look to steal Bohemia Interactive's rights to the series and it's assets. The term, arma-api, is free to be claimed by Bohemia at any time.

However, as per the license, the code and assets for this api belong to the owner of this repository, with credit given to any contributors to the project for their contributions (which are welcome and gratefully appreciated).

Features

- Classes endpoint that contains all of the classes that are able to be retrieved from an infantry arsenal (based on the Nutters modset)

Usage and Examples

View usage on my Swagger Instance. See example queries below, the heroku instance can take a few seconds to spin up out of sleep so please be patient:

• Fetch all classes: https://unofficial-arma-api.herokuapp.com//classes
• Filter classes by mod: https://unofficial-arma-api.herokuapp.com//classes/rhs
• Filter classes by type: https://unofficial-arma-api.herokuapp.com//classes/?type=Bipods
• Filter by mod & class: https://unofficial-arma-api.herokuapp.com//classes/rhs?type=Bipods
• Filter by search term: https://unofficial-arma-api.herokuapp.com//classes/search/M16

Contributing

All contributions or feature requests are more than appreciated. To get started, put a new post on #General stating who you are and how you wish to help out the community. This is just so I'm aware of who is looking into what so I can appropriately prioritise issues that you may be interested in!

Building

1. To build the API locally, you will need the following dependencies:
   • Java 11 (recommended) or higher. I used a binary from Adoptium but any other provider should be fine.
   • Mongo Community Server to store the classes.
   • Maven to build the API. I used brew to install it but any method should be fine so long as it can be executed from a terminal.
   • Community Based Addons (CBA) for Arma 3 (this is required as the SQF extraction script uses some of their functions).
   • You should also download and install the Arma 3 mods containing the configs you wish to extract, but keep in mind that you may experience weird errors if you are not using the modset I based it off of.
   • Once you're ready to go with the mods, boot up Arma 3 with the mods you want to extract Cfg Classes from.
2. Populate your application-properties file. This file contains user configuration properties used for connecting your database to the api service and the like. If you don't know what some of the values are, check out the provided example file file. Never commit your application.properties file to source control, keep it safe!
3. Retrieve content from Arma 3. This will involve some fiddling but is easy when you get the hang of it:
   • Open a Debug Console in Arma 3
   • In a text editor, open the SQF Extraction Script and edit the _CONFIGS hashmap to include the Cfg Classes you wish to extract to a JSON array. NOTE: Since Arma no longer supports arrays over 9,999,999 elements, you may encouter errors complaining of that fact. In such cases, you may have to do the extraction in chunks (e.g. do weapons and glasses and then do vehicles and magazines separately).
   • Copy over the script to the debug console and execute it. If you encounter an error and you are using a different modset to the one I mentioned in step 1, please either let the owner of arma-api know or make a pull request to add it to the script.
   • You should now have the JSON array on your clipboard!
4. Clear the contents of the data directory of any JSON files to ensure that only your data is copied across. Copy the contents of your clipboard to an empty JSON file in this directory, creating it if necessary. The filename doesn't matter.
5. Then open a terminal at the root of this project and run mvn clean install to download the necessary libraries.
6. Now you're ready to populate your Mongo database! From the same terminal, run java -jar target/Executer-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar --updater, which will take a while. This runs the Updater script that will clean and install two databases (one production and one backup) on Mongo full of configs.
7. Finally, execute the JAR file via java -jar target/Executer-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar to run the API application. The API should now be accessible at http://localhost:8080/.