Console API

Any number of clients can connect to the engine via TCP/IP and communicate with simple JSON API. The default port number is 10001 as defined by CROWN_DEFAULT_CONSOLE_PORT. You can change the port number with --console-port option.

TCP protocol

Every message starts with u32 header containing the size in bytes of the following JSON message.

JSON messages

Every JSON message has a type key which identifies its type. Sending messages with unknown type will result with an error message:

{
        "type" : "error",
        "message" : "Unknown command"
}

Execute Lua scripts

Executing Lua script is as simple as sending the following message:

{
        "type" : "script",
        "script" : "print('Hello, world!')"
}

All the tools are controlled by sending simple Lua scripts to them.