Alliance.pod

Alliance Management

If you are looking for the methods to manage an alliance, they can be found in the Embassy.

Alliance Methods

The following methods are available from /alliance.

view_profile (session_id, alliance_id)

Provides a list of the data that's publicly known about this alliance.

{
   "profile" : {
       "id" : "id-goes-here",
       "name" : "Lacuna Expanse Allies",
       "description" : "Blah blah blah blah...",
       "leader_id" : "id-goes-here",
       "date_created" : "01 31 2010 13:09:05 +0600",
       "members" : [
           {
               "id" : "id-goes-here",
               "name" : "Lacuna Expanse Corp"
           },
           ...
       ],
       "space_stations" : [
           {
               "id" : "id-goes-here",
               "name" : "The Life Star",
               "x" : -342,
               "y" : 128
           },
           ...
       ],
       "influence" : 0
   },
   "status" : { ... }
}

Throws 1002.

session_id

A session id.

alliance_id

The id of the alliance for which you'd like to retrieve the public profile.

find ( session_id, name )

Find an alliance by name. Returns a hash reference containing alliance ids and alliance names. So if you searched for "Lacuna" you might get back a result set that looks like this:

{
   "alliances" : [
       {
           "id" : "id-goes-here",
           "name" : "Lacuna Expanse Allies"
       },
       {    
           "id" : "id-goes-here2",
           "name" : "Lacuna Pirates"
       }
   ],
   "status" : { ... }
}

session_id

A session id.

name

The name your searching for. It's case insensitive, and partial names work fine. Must be at least 3 characters.