Toast/TriviaBot/bot/APIHelper.cpp
Jack 6b2464bad4 Fix messages occasionally not going through
Discord API will occasionally throw 502 Bad Gateway errors. Retrying
normally means this is not a problem.
2016-07-21 14:07:05 +01:00

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#include "http/HTTPHelper.hpp"
#include <cstdio>
#include <thread>
#include <chrono>
#include "APIHelper.hpp"
using namespace std::chrono_literals;
APIHelper::APIHelper() : BASE_URL("https://discordapp.com/api"), CHANNELS_URL(BASE_URL + "/channels"),
JSON_CTYPE("application/json") {
http = new HTTPHelper();
}
void APIHelper::send_message(std::string channel_id, std::string message) {
const std::string url = CHANNELS_URL + "/" + channel_id + "/messages";
json data = {
{ "content", message }
};
std::string response;
long response_code = -1;
response = http->post_request(url, JSON_CTYPE, data.dump(), &response_code);
int retries = 0;
while (response_code != 200 && retries < 2) {
std::this_thread::sleep_for(100ms);
// try 3 times. usually enough to prevent 502 bad gateway issues
response = http->post_request(url, JSON_CTYPE, data.dump(), &response_code);
retries++;
}
}