#lang racket ;; let's try to make a pokedex in racket! ;; first step will be to write a function to query the pokeAPI ;; like so, https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/ditto ;; once there is a function in place that returns data I will ;; have a choice to make -- do I want to always query the API, ;; do I want to cache results, or do I want to create an offline ;; repository of poke-data to search through and sometimes update? ;; basic GET request (require net/url) (require json) ; 🤔 (require slideshow/pict racket/draw) ;; API URL (define *POKE-API* "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/") (define (get-pokemon id) "queries the api, returns a butt ton of info" (call/input-url (string->url (~a *POKE-API* "pokemon/" id)) ; ~a, like string-append but appends *either* strings or numbers to a string get-pure-port (compose string->jsexpr port->string))) ; QUESTION: could I use read-json here, instead? (define (dex-entry id) "selects the info we need from the api, builds a hash table of the data that will build the entry" (let ([poke-data (get-pokemon id)]) (define entry-data (make-hash)) (hash-set! entry-data "name" (hash-ref poke-data 'name)) (hash-set! entry-data "id" (hash-ref poke-data 'id)) (hash-set! entry-data "sprite" (hash-ref (hash-ref poke-data 'sprites) 'front_default)) (hash-set! entry-data "stats" (hash-ref poke-data 'stats)) (hash-set! entry-data "types" (hash-ref poke-data 'types)) entry-data)) (define (inspector h) "display the contents of a hash table for human eyeballs and let the hash table fall back out" (hash-map h (lambda (k v) (if (list? v) (map ; consider making this if a cond and testing for lists/hash tables to recursively dive into nested data (lambda (x) (inspector x)) v) (display (~a " key: " k "\nvalue: " v "\n=====\n"))))) h) (inspector (dex-entry 11)) (inspector (dex-entry "bulbasaur")) (define img (hash-ref (dex-entry 11) "sprite")) (define display-image (bitmap (make-object bitmap% img))) (frame (scale display-image 0.3)) ; this doesn't actually seem to work with URLs/PNGs