C# Client Library for Procedural Compute.

This library contains the core (platform-agnostic) methods for interacting with the Procedural Compute API. It is intended that this library is imported and "wrapped" by client UI's such as Rhino/Grasshopper and Revit/Dynamo. This wrapping can be very "thin" (ie. a Grasshopper component can easily/trivially be made that simply wraps the exact inputs and outputs of a particular function in this library.)

To install the ComputeGH plugin please refer to our latest release

Development on this library can be done on any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc) and does not require any special platform-specific libraries other than .NET.

Install the .NET core libraries for development on Linux from here: [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-package-manager-ubuntu-2004]

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-3.1

The above steps can of course be done within a Docker container to ensure a consistent development environment in the container. The Dockerfile is contained in this repository and can be built with:

docker build . -t ubuntu:dotnet-core-3.1

You can develop on Linux by installing Visual Studio Code with the Docker extension to enable remote debugging of code within the Docker container. Instructions are here: [https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/debug-netcore]

As we are developing with a live API then you will want to keep your username/password secret and NOT publish to this repository. This can be done in C# with secret management outlined here: [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/app-secrets?view=aspnetcore-3.1&tabs=linux]

In summary do the following (on Linux):

cd ComputeCS.Tests
dotnet user-secrets set "ComputeAPIUser:Username" "<username>"
dotnet user-secrets set "ComputeAPIUser:Password" "<password>"
dotnet user-secrets set "ComputeAPIUser:Host" "<host>"

You can confirm that the secets have been created and saved to a local file path with the following:

cat ~/.microsoft/usersecrets/d259b59c-3708-4b6f-a0f9-90d9b8b3560d/secrets.json

Unit tests are managed with NUnit. [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/testing/unit-testing-with-nunit]

Ensure that your secrets are setup as per the above section. Then you can run tests with:

cd ComputeCS.Tests 
dotnet test

"C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\System\yak.exe" login

Bump the version of the ComputeGH plugin in the dist/manifest.yml We version as YEAR.MONTH.BUILD_NUMBER e.g.: 2020.9.1

cd dist\
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\System\yak.exe" build
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\System\yak.exe" push proceduralcs-$VERSION.yak