Northstar Master Server

This is a rewrite of the original northstar master server in Rust.

Development

Install Rust
Install sqlx-cli
```
cargo install sqlx-cli
```
Checkout the repo
```
git clone ...
```
Create the database
```
sqlx database setup
```
Run the server (this will take a while for the first compilation)
```
source .env # You can also set the env vars manually
cargo run
```

Changing the schema

Changes are done using plain SQL migrations (located in migrations/).

Create a migration:

sqlx migrate add <name>

Run migrations:

sqlx migrate run

Testing

Manually

In Titanfall2\R2Northstar\mods\Northstar.CustomServers\mod\cfg\autoexec_ns_server.cfg and Titanfall2\R2Northstar\mods\Northstar.CustomServers\mod\cfg\autoexec_ns_server.cfg, change the line from ns_masterserver_hostname "https://northstar.tf" to ns_masterserver_hostname "http://127.0.0.1".

Your game will now talk to your local server instead of the offical master server.

Automated

TBD

TODO

Things that are missing:

Bad word filter
Take ip address from header (proxy support)
CORS headers
Server mod pdiffs (mod specific player data)
- Design is not finished
Origin username verification
Some account data lookup endpoints (API structure is questionable)
Rate limiting (do in proxy?)
Caching various endpoints

Future improvements

Actual response codes
Store servers in database
Use distributed database for failover (postgresql?)
Compress stored player data

With client changes:

Only upload changed player data
Use heartbeat instead of update_values again
More error reporting
Version API for breaking changes (ex. /api/v2/...)
Server ping
- Could be collected by master server, but requires regional instances

Alainx277/northstar_master_server