32. Game operation part 2: Server maintenance messages

Users connected to the server at the beginning of a server maintenance period are automatically notified, and all other packets sent by clients are ignored.

32.1. Server maintenance message settings

32.1.1. (Method 1) Static method using MANIFEST.json

You can restart the server with the following settings.

32.1.1.1. MANIFEST.json settings

Add a MaintenanceService session to MANIFEST.json as follows.

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{
    "dependency": {
        ...
        "MaintenanceService": {
          "under_maintenance": true,
          "maintenance_data_path": "/path/to/maintenance.json"
        }
    }
}

Note

/path/to/mintenance.json represents the maintenance.json file path in the example above.

32.1.1.2. maintenance.json settings

Create a json file with date_start, date_end, and messages input as follows.

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{
  "date_start": "2015/09/23 04:00",   // start time
  "date_end": "2015/09/23 08:00",     // end time
  "messages": "The state of being maintained."  // message for the client.
}

Important

You cannot add items other than date_start date_end messages to maintenance.json.

32.1.2. (Method 2) Dynamic method set while server is running

Change server maintenance status and message without restarting the server using the API provided in the following component.

PUT /v1/maintenance/update
Request JSON Object

  • date_start (string) – (required) “2015/09/23 04:00” form

  • date_end (string) – (required) “2015/09/23 08:00” form

  • messages (string) – (required) message sent to client

  • under_maintenance (bool) – (optional) Use to turn this feature on or off

Status Codes

  • 200 OK – success

  • 400 Bad Request – failure. If the request body is not json or the field type is different

Note

See Server management part 1: Adding RESTful APIs for the API service port.

32.2. Server maintenance message client code

Please refer to the distributed client plugin tester code for a client example. For more details, see Plugin server maintenance messages.