The server component of the DCS: World Mission Planner

The server requires Python 3 and the modules listed in requirements.txt.

On Linux, the following commands should get you up and running:

$ git clone [email protected]:jboecker/dcs-mission-planner-server.git
$ cd dcs-mission-planner-server
$ virtualenv -p python3 venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ cd src
$ python serve.py 8080

On Windows, you may be interested in the following links:

• Python 3.2 64-bit
• Tornado for Python 3.2 64-bit
• pyproj for Python 3.2 64-bit

Please note that there is no official support for running your own server.

The server side of the mission planner does not do much. It facilitates communication between the clients and otherwise stays out of the way.

Data is stored in a key-value store. All keys are simple strings, most values are encoded as JSON before saving.

Instances are stored under the key "instance-<instance_id>". The key "instance-list" stores a JSON array of all existing instance IDs. The "next_instance_id" key stores the next instance ID to be assigned.

An instance is represented by a python dictionary. See the handle_create_instance_request method for a list of fields. The most important field is instance["data"]["objects"]. This is a mapping of object IDs to values and can be thought of as a per-instance key-value store.

Clients connect to the server over a WebSocket.

Connected clients will be notified of any changes to this shared key-value store and can change it with "transaction" requests. A transaction request has a list of preconditions (if this is not a subset of the objects in the key-value store, the transaction fails), a list of (IDs of) objects that should be deleted, and a list of objects that should be updated or created.

The airports.kml file was made by kosmos224 and was downloaded from DCS User Files, which lists "Freeware - Free version, Unlimited distribution" in the license field.

jQuery (js/jquery-2.1.0.min.js) is under the MIT license (see https://jquery.org/license/ for details).

Everything else is released under the terms of the GNU AGPL license (see AGPL.txt).