pfirsich / lua-discordRPC

LuaJIT FFI Wrapper for the Discord Rich Presence API

lua-discordRPC

LuaJIT bindings for the Discord Rich Presence library (v3.3.0).

Usage

To use this library, download the binaries of discord-rpc (or build them yourself) and make sure the dynamic library is in some location it can be loaded from (e.g. on Windows: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682586(v=vs.85).aspx, usually just next to the executable).

If you downloaded a release from the discord-rpc github, the file you are looking for will be in discord-rpc/winX-dynamic/bin/discord-rpc.dll (choose X according to whether your executable is 32 or 64 bit)

Then just do local discordRPC = require "discordRPC" wherever you need it.

If you are using löve, just put the appropriate .dll next to your löve executable

An example of the usage of the library using löve can be found in main.lua.

Documentation

How and when to use the functions that are part of the Discord RPC API is identical to the C API, therefore you should first make yourself familiar with the API documentation on Discord's website:

https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/rich-presence/how-to

All other differences and the function signatures are as follows:

discordRPC.initialize(applicationId, autoRegister, optionalSteamId) (Discord_Initialize)

• applicationId must be a string
• autoRegister must be a boolean
• optionalSteamId may be nil (i.e. not passed at all) or a string

You do not have to pass handlers to this function, instead you may define functions in the module table of discordRPC:

Notes about callbacks: Just-In-Time compilation is disabled for callbacks (for reasons, see the comment in the implementation of discordRPC.runCallbacks), so try to avoid doing performance critical tasks in them.

discordRPC.ready(userId, username, discriminator, avatar)

userId, username, discriminator and avatar are all strings

discordRPC.errored(errorCode, message)

• errorCode is a number
• message is a string

discordRPC.disconnected(errorCode, message)

• errorCode is a number
• message is a string

discordRPC.joinGame(joinSecret)

joinSecret is a string

discordRPC.spectateGame(spectateSecret)

spectateSecret is a string

discordRPC.joinRequest(userId, username, discriminator, avatar)

userId, username, discriminator and avatar are all strings

discordRPC.shutdown() (Discord_Shutdown)

discordRPC.runCallbacks() (Discord_RunCallbacks)

discordRPC.updatePresence(presence) (Discord_UpdatePresence)

presence must be a table with the following keys (all optional):

• state must be a string (max length: 127)
• details must be a string (max length: 127)
• startTimestamp must be an integer (52 bit, signed)
• endTimestamp must be an integer (52 bit, signed)
• largeImageKey must be a string (max length: 31)
• largeImageText must be a string (max length: 127)
• smallImageKey must be a string (max length: 31)
• smallImageText must be a string (max length: 127)
• partyId must be a string (max length: 127)
• partySize must be an integer (32 bit, signed)
• partyMax must be an integer (32 bit, signed)
• matchSecret must be a string (max length: 127)
• joinSecret must be a string (max length: 127)
• spectateSecret must be a string (max length: 127)
• instance must be an integer (8 bit, signed)

discordRPC.clearPresence() (Discord_ClearPresence)

discordRPC.respond(userId, reply) (Discord_Respond)

• userId is a string
• reply is now a string and must be either ("no" (0), "yes" (1) or "ignore" (2))