swarms/ideas/146-status-go-sdk/README.md

## Preamble

    Idea: 146-status-go-sdk
    Title: Status GO-SDK
    Status: Draft
    Created: 2018-04-03


## Summary

Provide an easy to use GO-SDK library to allow community developers easily interact with status messaging.


## Swarm Participants
- Lead Contributor: @adriacidre
- Contributor:
- Contributor:
- Testing & Evaluation:


## Product Overview

### Product Description

One of the main goals of status is to grow its community, however is not easy to work on status-go project as a community developer.
Is not easy to set up an environment

- Identify where to start
- Interact with status messaging system.
- Test your changes

The idea behind this swarm is to simplify this by allowing community developers to interact with status, based uniquely on status-go library.

### Requirements & Dependencies

- *Easy to use SDK* : Using a sdk should be as easy as using any other messaging system, allowing you to subscribe or publish to specific chats.
- *The less dependencies the better* : ATM and in order to interact with status messaging system we need to interact with code on status-go and status-react repos. This should be simplified to allow devs work only on top of status-go
- *Quick dev environment setup* : Following the previous point, if we’re only based on status-go, dev environment should be trivial. Should be easy to build apps and distribute them as binaries for different platforms.


### Minimum Viable Product

MVP should allow a developer to accomplish some minimal actions:

- Connect : creates a new connection
- Close : closes active connection
- Auth : login as a specific user
- Subscribe : subscribe to a channel
- Unsubscribe : unsubscribe from a channel
- Publish : send a message.

_All methods should work for 1to1, groups and public chats._

With this methods building a simple `autoresponder bot` should be as simple as:

**TO BE DEFINED**
```go

// Connect to the default status url and defer closing the connection
st, _ := status.Connect(st.DefaultAddr) // -> localhost:51515
defer st.Close()

// Authenticate as an specific user
st, _ = status.Auth([]byte(“S3cretT0ken”))

// Subscribes to any message on chat chatID
sub, _ := st.Subscribe("chatID", func(m *st.Msg) {
    // Replies the received message
    m.Reply([]byte("I can help!”))
    sub.Unsubscribe()
})

// Simple message publisher
st.Publish(“buddy_token", []byte("Hello World"))

```

SDK should be provided with different, easy to follow and well documented examples _(TBD)_:

- Autoresponder bot (nice for testing)
- Google assistant integration
- Slack proxy (use status from slack)
- Reminders (set and get reminders)

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### Useful links & Dependencies

- https://github.com/mandrigin/status-go-bots — http://offsite.chat and #humans-need-not-apply bots.
- Pre-existing issue - https://github.com/status-im/ideas/issues/131

### Blockers
New Status App communication protocol - https://github.com/status-im/ideas/issues/87

## Dates
Goal Date: TBD

Description: TBD

Testing Days required: TBD

## Success Metrics

- A dev who is unfamiliar with the SDK is able to set up his environment and build a simple chatbot in under 2 hours, just by following the documentation.

#### Exit criteria:

Same as success metrics.

## Supporting Role Communication
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## Copyright
Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).