add batch module for analyzing and replaying games

[zeitlinger]

Based on #162

add batch module for analyzing and replaying games

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[coyotte508]

Very nice!

[coyotte508]

The scripts should probably be in boardgamers-mono (maybe add a function in wrapper.ts to collect the stats)

[zeitlinger]

The scripts should probably be in boardgamers-mono (maybe add a function in wrapper.ts to collect the stats)

both replay and stats?
Can you elaborate a little how this could work?
The idea is to run the stats and replay locally - it uses quite some CPU.

[coyotte508]

The stats code - getStats and getDetailStats can be moved to wrapper.ts in this repo, maybe gameStats() andplayerStats().

The batch replay code can definitely be moved to boardgamers-mono.

The batch stats code can definitely also be moved to boardgamers-mono.

Both batch code could be in a game-server/scripts folder. They would use the getEngine function of game-server/app/services/engine.ts.

As for running locally - it's possible! The only thing needed is to run the seed command (maybe update the GP version as well in seeds.json) to configure boardgamers-mono with the correct GP version. You can run the scripts locally. I could also give you ssh access to the server to run stats locally but on the distant server (with port forwarding).

[zeitlinger]

OK, sounds like a solid plan - but will take some time.

We can either merge the PR as is and create a follow-up ticket - or I'll extract the other useful changes (permissive replay) into another PR.

And any help is welcome, of course 😄

[coyotte508]

I modified the batch replay command in boardgamers-mono/game-server to also be available as a script: boardgamers/boardgamers-mono@3138d8a

I added doc about a stats command: http://docs.boardgamers.space/guide/engine-api.html#stats (the corresponding script will still need to be added in game-servers)

I think you can:

• keep the replayability changes to Engine
• move getStats to a new exported stats() function in engine/wrapper.ts

All that will be left is to create a stats writer script in boardgamers-mono/game-server, which should be fairly simple!