Implementing TBA Api in Java

[Jon Stratis]

Why use the Blue Alliance API and not the official FIRST API that the Blue Alliance most likely uses to populate their own data? You can find out more about the FIRST Event API on their TeamForge page: https://usfirst.collab.net/sf/projec...ty_developers/

If you decide to go that route, get signed up and I can share some of the work I've done with you... It's all in Java, designed to pull all of the data needed to calculate rankings for the MN State Championship invites - basically, a slightly modified version of the District ranking formula. It would at least give you a framework for making requests and parsing the results.

Past that, you'll have to decide what your requirements are for storing and displaying data. On the complex side of things, you could read all of the data into a database, and run a local webhost to put it in a browser, or a local app customized to display and navigate the data. On the easy side, you could spit it out into a CSV file and open it in Excel to play around with. In the middle, you can actually write the data directly to a nicely formatted, multi-tab spreadsheet (there's an apache library that makes this relatively easy to do, once you get it figured out). This is one of the things I love most about programming... there are a hundred ways to do what you want, you just have to decide which way to use!