The previously shown URL (https://sim.smogon.com/showdown/websocket), along with sim3.smogon.com or sim.psim.us, doesn't work, since it serves a certificate that's only valid for sim3.psim.us, which is also the default domain currently used by the client.
This is the change that renames:
- `Dex.getMove` -> `Dex.moves.get`
- `Dex.getAbility` -> `Dex.abilities.get`
- `Dex.getItem` -> `Dex.items.get`
- `Dex.getSpecies` -> `Dex.species.get`
- `Dex.getEffect` -> `Dex.conditions.get`
- `Dex.getNature` -> `Dex.natures.get`
- `Dex.getType` -> `Dex.types.get`
- `Dex.getFormat` -> `Dex.formats.get`
In addition, some other APIs have been updated:
- `getByID` methods have also been added to every other table.
- `Dex.moves.all()` now gets an array of all moves
- Plus equivalent methods for `abilities`, `items`, `species`, `formats`, `natures`, `types`
- Note: there's no `Dex.conditions.all()`
- new API: `Dex.stats` for naming/iterating stats
- `Dex.getEffectByID` -> `Dex.conditions.getByID`
- `Dex.getType` -> `Dex.types.get`
- `Dex.data.Formats` -> `Dex.data.Rulesets`
- `Dex.formats` -> now an array `Dex.formats.all()`
- `Dex.getRuleTable` -> `Dex.formats.getRuleTable`
- `Dex.validateFormat` -> `Dex.formats.validate`
Team functions have been split off into a new `sim/teams` package:
- `Dex.packTeam` -> `Teams.pack`
- `Dex.fastUnpackTeam` -> `Teams.unpack`
- `Dex.generateTeam` -> `Teams.generate`
- `Dex.stringifyTeam` -> `Teams.export`
`Teams.export` has also been rewritten to better match how it works in client.
This implements #8178
Added Android-Unofficial-Showdown-Client as an example of ps client implementation. This might help people to understand Pokémon Showdown's protocol easily.
PSBot is a bot I'm working on that will specialize in easily
customizable responses to chat messages, so it fills a niche that the
other bots on the list don't fill.
Battle protocol documentation, instead of being strewn between
`PROTOCOL.md` and `sim/README.md`, is now in `sim/SIM-PROTOCOL.md`.
Also added:
- documentation for how to do searches and challenges
- documentation for packed team format
Fixes#5005
