Symphony REST API Client Library for .NET

This is a .NET client library for the Symphony REST API, the technology used to create integrated bots on the Symphony platform. Detailed documentation of the Symphony REST API can be found at developers.symphony.com.

Features

• Client code and model objects for all API endpoints.
• Automatic token management for authentication.
• Event-based data feed for processing inbound messages.
• Builder for constructing formatted messages (MessageML).

Supported Platforms

This project targets .NET Standard 1.3 which is supported by .NET Framework 4.6 and .NET Core 1.0, more details here.

Getting Started

Symphony's REST API have been logically divided into sub-APIs. To use the client library, a SessionManager is first created to handle authentication for a bot user, and relevant instances of the sub-APIs are created depending on what functions the bot user requires.

This example shows how to subscribe to a bot user's incoming messages using the DatafeedAPI:

var certificate = new X509Certificate2(@"botuser.p12", "password");
var sessionManager = new UserSessionManager("https://keymanager:8444/sessionauth/", "https://keymanager:8444/keyauth/", certificate);
var agentApiFactory = new AgentApiFactory("https://agentapi:8446/agent");
var datafeedApi = agentApiFactory.CreateDatafeedApi(sessionManager);
datafeedApi.OnMessage += (sender, event) =>
{
    var message = e.Message;
    Console.WriteLine(message.Body);

    // Write any attachments to disk.
    foreach (var attachmentInfo in message.Attachments)
    {
        var bytes = attachmentsApi.DownloadAttachment(message.StreamId, message.Id, attachmentInfo.Id);
        File.WriteAllBytes(attachmentInfo.Name, bytes);
    }
};
datafeedApi.Listen();

The following code snippet shows how to find a user by email address and send a formatted message:

var podApiFactory = new PodApiFactory("https://agentapi:8446/pod");
var usersApi = podApiFactory.CreateUsersApi(sessionManager);
var streamsApi = podApiFactory.CreateStreamsApi(sessionManager);
var userId = usersApi.GetUserId("jforsell@factset.com");
var streamId = streamsApi.CreateStream(new List<long> {userId});
var body = new MessageBuilder().Text("hello ").Bold("world").ToString();
messagesApi.PostMessage(new MessageSubmit(streamId, body));

Building

After cloning or downloading the source, it can be built in Visual Studio or with MSBuild.

Generated Code

The library depends on code that has been generated from Symphony's YAML spec files using nswag. The generated files live under the src/SymphonyOSS.RestClientApi/Generated folder.

In case there is a need to regenerate the code from Symphony's YAML specs:

1. Make sure Node Package Manager is installed
2. Install nswag via command line: npm install nswag -g
3. Install api-spec-converter via command line: npm install api-spec-converter -g
4. Run SymphonyOSS.RestApiClient\Generated\OpenApi\generate.bat

The details of the generation process are outlined in generate.bat

Contribute

This project was initiated at FactSet and has been developed as open-source from the very beginning.

Contributions are accepted via GitHub pull requests. All contributors must be covered by contributor license agreements to comply with the Code Contribution Process.

Release Notes

Release 0.5.0 (October 2017):

• Support for .NET Core
• Switched to using NSwag for Swagger code generation due to direct use of System.Net.Http.HttpClient; Swagger codegen uses FubarCoder's RestSharp library which is not thread safe
• All generated classes are no longer exposed externally
• App Authentication APIs now available

Release 0.4.0 (November 22, 2016):

• New entity classes have been introduced: Attachment, Connection, Message, Presence, User, Room, and Stream replace their generated counterparts (eg V2Message, UserV2, etc).
• SessionApi method GetUserId replaces GetSessionInfo.
• StreamsApi method CreateStream returns stream ID instead of Stream object.
• UsersApi GetUserId method replaces GetUser method (which returned a userId wrapped in a simple class).
• UtilApi methods return string instead of SimpleMessage.

Release 0.3.4 (October 10, 2016):

• Added a new framework dependency to the nuspec file.

Release 0.3.3 (October 10, 2016):

• Regenerated classes using latest swagger-codegen to fix bugs with optional parameters.
• Updated dependencies to latest versions.

Release 0.3.2 (September 27, 2016):

• Support for sending messages using both normal and on-behalf-of authentication.

Release 0.3.1 (September 19, 2016):

• Support for on-behalf-of operations,
• Method to get user details by user ID,
• Small fixes.

Release 0.3.0 (September 6, 2016):

• New APIs.
• New session management to support app sessions (breaking change).
• Improved datafeed error handling.
• MessageML to plain text parsing.
• And more...

Release 0.2.0 (June 28, 2016)

• New APIs added: attachments, room membership, security, user admin, and util.
• Support for attachments when sending and receiving messages (breaking change).

Release 0.1.0 (June 6, 2016)

• Initial release. Code generated from agentAPI v1.38.0, authenticatorAPI v1.0, and podAPI v1.38.0, found in agent-sdk-1.38.0-2016-05-27.tar.gz.