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A reactive, fully-async Discord API wrapper for the JVM, built on RxJava 3.
https://github.com/mewna/catnip
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A reactive, fully-async Discord API wrapper for the JVM, built on RxJava 3.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mewna/catnip
- Owner: mewna
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Archived: true
- Created: 2018-09-02T07:16:40.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: mistress
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-17T23:10:08.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-09-21T12:02:54.184Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: discord, discord-api, discord-api-wrapper, discord-bot, hacktoberfest, java, reactive, vertx
- Language: Java
- Homepage: https://discord.gg/yeF2HpP
- Size: 94.3 MB
- Stars: 151
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 33
- Open Issues: 54
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# PROJECT STATUS
**This project is no longer maintained.** I don't have time to maintain it anymore, and I don't really use Discord's API much anymore anyway. If you want to maintain this library, please see issue [#729](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/issues/729).
# catnip
[](https://mewna.com/)
A Discord API wrapper in Java. Fully async / reactive, built on top of
[RxJava](http://reactivex.io). catnip tries to map roughly 1:1 to how the Discord
API works, both in terms of events and REST methods available. catnip uses Java 17+.
catnip is part of the [amyware Discord server](https://discord.gg/yeF2HpP).
Licensed under the [BSD 3-Clause License](https://tldrlegal.com/license/bsd-3-clause-license-(revised)).
## Installation
[Get it on Jitpack](https://jitpack.io/#com.mewna/catnip)
Current version: 
### Can I just download a JAR directly?
No. Use a real build tool like [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) or [Gradle](https://gradle.org/).
### Javadocs?
[Get them here.](https://mewna.github.io/catnip)
## Features
- Automatic sharding
- Very customizable - you can write [extensions](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/extension/Extension.java)
for the library, as well as [options](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/CatnipOptions.java)
for most anything you could want to change. See `EXTENSIONS.md` for more.
- Modular - REST / shards can be used independently. See `MODULAR_USAGE.md` for more.
- Customizable caching - Can run with [no cache](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/cache/NoopEntityCache.java),
[partial caching](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/cache/CacheFlag.java),
or [write your own cache handler](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/cache/EntityCacheWorker.java).
See `CACHING.md` for more.
- Asynchronous cache accesses.
- You can disable individual events.
- You can disable all events, and handle gateway events directly.
- Customizable ratelimit/session data handling - wanna store your
[sessions/seqnums](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/shard/session/SessionManager.java)
and [REST ratelimit data](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/tree/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/rest/ratelimit)
in Redis, but [gateway ratelimits](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/shard/ratelimit/Ratelimiter.java)
in memory? You can do that!
- [Customizable shard management](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/blob/mistress/src/main/java/com/mewna/catnip/shard/manager/ShardManager.java)
## Basic usage
This is the simplest possible bot you can make right now:
```Java
final Catnip catnip = Catnip.catnip("your token goes here");
catnip.observable(DiscordEvent.MESSAGE_CREATE)
.filter(msg -> msg.content().equals("!ping"))
.subscribe(msg -> {
msg.respond("pong!");
}, error -> error.printStackTrace());
catnip.connect();
```
catnip returns RxJava operators (`Completable`/`Observable`/`Single`/...) from
all REST methods. For example, editing your ping message to include time it
took to create the message:
```Java
final Catnip catnip = Catnip.catnip("your token goes here");
catnip.observable(DiscordEvent.MESSAGE_CREATE)
.filter(msg -> msg.content().equals("!ping"))
.subscribe(msg -> {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
msg.respond("pong!")
.subscribe(ping -> {
long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
ping.edit("pong! (took " + (end - start) + "ms).");
});
}, error -> error.printStackTrace());
catnip.connect();
```
You can also create a catnip instance asynchronously:
```Java
Catnip.catnipAsync("your token here").subscribe(catnip -> {
catnip.observable(DiscordEvent.MESSAGE_CREATE)
.filter(msg -> msg.content().equals("!ping"))
.subscribe(msg -> {
msg.respond("pong!");
}, error -> error.printStackTrace());
catnip.connect();
});
```
Also check out the [examples](https://github.com/mewna/catnip/tree/mistress/src/main/example/basic) for Kotlin and Scala usage.
### A note on Observable#subscribe vs. Observable#forEach
`Observable#forEach` seems like the obvious way to use the reactive methods, but as it turns out,
it's also the wrong thing to do. `Observable#forEach` is generally intended for finite streams of
data; the events that catnip emits aren't finite, and as such, `Observable#forEach` isn't the
correct tool to use. In addition, **`Observable#forEach` will stop processing events if an uncaught
exception is thrown.** Instead, you should use `Observable#subscribe(eventCallback, exceptionCallback)`,
which will handle exceptions properly.
### Modular usage
catnip supports being used in REST-only or shards-only configurations. The nice thing about catnip
is that using it like this is **exactly the same** as using it normally. The only difference is
that to use catnip in REST-only mode, you don't call `catnip.connect()` and use
`catnip.rest().whatever()` instead.
### RxJava schedulers
By default, RxJava's `Observable#subscribe()` and related methods will not operate on any
particular scheduler by default. That is, they will run on the calling thread. catnip will
automatically subscribe RxJava objects onto a scheduler provided by catnip, that defaults
to being a ForkJoinPool-based scheduler. You can customize the scheduler used with the
corresponding option in `CatnipOptions`.
## Useful extensions
- `catnip-voice` - Voice support for your catnip bot.
https://github.com/natanbc/catnip-voice
- `catnip-utilities` - Some extensions for typesafe commands, event waiters, reaction menus,
and more. https://github.com/queer/catnip-utilities
- `discordbotlist-stats-catnip` - Wrapper aiming at combining all Discord Bot Lists AND Wrappers into one artifact.
Automatically handles pushing bot stats to bot lists. https://github.com/burdoto/discordbotlist-stats#using-with-catnip--
## Why write a fourth Java lib?
- I didn't want ten billion events for every possible case. catnip maps more/less 1:1 with the
Discord API, and any "extra" events on top of that need to be user-provided via extensions or
other means. I guess really I just didn't want my lib to be as "high-level" as other libs are.
- I wanted to try to maximize extensibility / customizability, beyond just making it modular. Things
like being able to intercept raw websocket messages (as JSON), write custom distributed cache handlers,
... are incredibly useful.
- I like everything returning Rx classes instead of custom `Future`-like classes. I do get why other libs
have them, I just wanted to not.
- I wanted modular usage to be exactly the same more / less no matter what; everything
should be doable through the catnip instance that you create.
- I wanted to make a lib built on RxJava.
- To take over the world and convert all Java bots. :^)