Menu operations API like SimConnect for web uis

Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Wishlist
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for your consideration: menu operations API like SimConnect for web uis

enabling “us” creating UI for all of us

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API like:

/api

returns

an array of command signatures.

a command signature

consists of

  • command name
  • command return type
  • command return type range
  • command return value description
  • array of command parameter descriptors

a parameter descriptor

consists of

  • position
  • type
  • type range
  • value description
  • default value when optional

signature / descriptors being position-based in an array or key-based in an object is up to you (array is less data transferred, object can serve as a reminder to the developer what is where).

users

command by

/api/command name?parameter 1&parameter2&…

  • parameter X is url-encoded without key
  • GET allows easy commanding on devices, environments and circumstances which have no ui to POST

  • You make available any and every command you like.
    Perhaps you can even auto-generate a server (ie. write code which does) based on machine code documentation you have.

  • If a command requires prerequisites, carrying a state parameter or a state-identifiying parameter (returned from another command) is a solution.

easy, light, fun.