DrDetectiveAPI

API for communication between Dr. Detective and CrowdTruth.

Package installation

The API is available as a plugin for CrowdTruth, which can be installed via Packagist. To install the API in CrowdTruth, edit your composer.json file to include crowdtruth/ddgameapi:

{
  "name": "laravel/laravel",
  "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
  ...
  "require": {
    ...
    "crowdtruth/ddgameapi": "*",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

Use composer to install the package:

[CrowdTruth]$ composer update

Add the DDGameapiServiceProvider to the list of providers in your app/config/app.php file:

...
'providers' => array(
  ...
  'CrowdTruth\DDGameapi\DDGameapiServiceProvider',
  ...
),
...

Run the package migrations to add the required software components to the CrowdTruth database:

[CrowdTruth]$ php artisan db:seed --class="CrowdTruth\DDGameapi\DDGameAPISeeder"

Next, package needs to be configured to communicate with the Dr. Detective game. For this, you must first export the configuration file:

[CrowdTruth]$ php artisan config:publish crowdtruth/ddgameapi

and afterwards edit the URL field on the configuration file app/config/packages/crowdtruth/ddgameapi/config.php:

return array(
	'URL' => 'http://<your-game-url>/admin-games/api',
);

set the URL to the location where your game instance is installed, for example http://localhost:8080/admin-games/api.

Last but not least, go to the instructions for configuring this API specific to your game instance. For example https://github.com/CrowdTruth/BioCrowd/wiki/Configurations-for-using-the-DrDetectiveAPI

If everything went well, the API has been succesfully installed.

API description

The API enables a webhook on the following URL: http://<your-CrowdTruth-instance>/game/detective/. This webhook is called from Dr. Detective to send judgments to CrowdTruth. API requests must contain 3 elements (in a JSON structure)

• signal -- Signal to be processed. 'new_judgments' for new judgments
• payload -- a JSON structure with the judgments
• signature -- SHA1(payload + API_KEY)

Example:

{
  "signal": "new_judgments",
  "payload": [
    {
      ...
    },
  ],
  "signature": "f04d10c"
}

The response to such call is also a JSON structure containing:

• signal -- Signal received
• status -- Return status (ok or error)
• message -- Message with additional information.

{
  "signal": "new_judgments",
  "status": "ok",
  "message": "1 processed"
}