From c90fab0136a08071f220b9ea97528bca76aa65ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: csoler <csoler@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 20:48:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added help for JSON API page

---
 retroshare-gui/src/gui/settings/JsonApiPage.cc | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/settings/JsonApiPage.cc b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/settings/JsonApiPage.cc
index a824a5fa0..f0767db7c 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/settings/JsonApiPage.cc
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/settings/JsonApiPage.cc
@@ -59,7 +59,15 @@ JsonApiPage::JsonApiPage(QWidget */*parent*/, Qt::WindowFlags /*flags*/)
     ui.listenAddressLineEdit->setValidator(ipValidator);
 
 }
-
+QString JsonApiPage::helpText() const
+{
+    return tr("<h1><img width=\"24\" src=\":/icons/help_64.png\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Webinterface</h1>  \
+     <p>Retroshare provides a JSON API allowing other softwares to communicate with its core using token-controlled HTTP requests to http://localhost:[port]. \
+        Please refer to the Retroshare documentation for how to use this feature. </p>\
+        <p>Unless you know what you're doing, you shouldn't need to change anything in this page. \
+       The web interface for instance will automatically register its own token to the JSON API which will be visible \
+        in the list of authenticated tokens after you enable it.</p>");
+}
 void JsonApiPage::enableJsonApi(bool checked)
 {
 	ui.addTokenPushButton->setEnabled(checked);
@@ -107,8 +115,6 @@ void JsonApiPage::load()
 	whileBlocking(ui.tokensListView)->setModel(new QStringListModel(newTk));
 }
 
-QString JsonApiPage::helpText() const { return ""; }
-
 bool JsonApiPage::checkStartJsonApi()
 {
 	if(!Settings->getJsonApiEnabled()) return false;