This repo houses the REST API for communication with the Rars storage and retrieval system, as well as websocket support in order to communicate with the SCARA robot or event-driven scheduling system. This API will be the only external interface, and will communicate with the task scheduler and SCARA/Gantry system; relaying status updates to clients.

Currently this API does not interface with the SCARA robot directly as the communication system in the robot has not yet been defined; websocket support was added to facilitate future integrations.

• store_slide (POST)

{
    "timestamp": 1221445323,            # unix number
    "payload": "KL20-12031_B_2.35.1"    # String
    "storage_box": "box_1",             # String optional (?)
}

• store_slides (POST)

{
    "timestamp": 1221445323,                                    # unix number
    "payload": ["KL20-12031_B_2.35.1", "KL20-11898_A_3.3.1"]    # [String]
    "storage_box": "box_1",                                     # String optional (?)
}

• get_slide (POST)

{
    "timestamp": 1221445323,            # unix number
    "payload": "KL20-12031_B_2.35.1"    # String
}

Mulitple slides can be retrieved by a number of different fields in the database, some of these are yet to be defined.

• get_slides (POST)

by ids
{
    "timestamp": 1221445323,
    'type': 'ids'
    "payload": ["KL20-12031_B_2.35.1", "KL20-11898_A_3.3.1"]
}

by casetype
{
    "timestamp": 12412354325,
    "type": "casetype",
    "payload": "case-type-string"
}