kat-client-proxies

A library of client proxies for use with various APIs used by KAT.

KAT (Knowledge & administration tools) is an ft.com application created for Financial Times B2B clients.

Getting started

$ git clone [email protected]:Financial-Times/kat-client-proxies.git

Standard next app make tasks apply:

make intall make .env make test

Whenever you are adding a new client proxies, for maintenance don't forget to include it in the list in the end of this README.

Testing

$ npm test will by default use the mocked APIs and associated fixtures. In some cases it is possible to test against the actual APIs by setting the following environment variables:

USE_MOCK_API=false
USER_UUID=
LICENCE_UUID=

Where USER_UUID is a valid user uuid on FT.com and LICENCE_UUID is the uuid of the licence associated with USER_UUID. Feel free to approach KAT team via #ft-syndikat slack channel if you have any questions.

Deployment

This module has been created to be included throughout other KAT components.

How to update a repo that uses the module to the new version

If you want to update connected components with the latest version, you need to follow the following steps:

1. Create a new repository release on GitHub. Please follow naming convention of previous releases.
2. Go to package.json file of the component you want to update, and change "kat-client-proxies" dependency version to the newly released one.

The following KAT components are currently using kat-client-proxies:

• kat-overview
• kat-myft
• kat-usage-report
• [kat-myft-syncher] (https://github.com/Financial-Times/kat-myft-syncher)
• [kat-api] (https://github.com/Financial-Times/kat-api)
• [kmt-utilities] (https://github.com/Financial-Times/kmt-utilities)

How to use the module

Installation guide

Include "kat-client-proxies": "financial-times/kat-client-proxies#v[LATEST_RELEASE_VERSION]" as a dependency in your package.json. Information about the latest version.

Usage

In your application wherever you would like to use kat-client-proxies include the path to the code you want to use:

//... your app code
const [moduleName] = require('kat-client-proxies').[moduleName];
// ... and then e.g.
[moduleName].[functionName]([args...])

Current proxies

• accessLicenceClient
• acquisitionCtxClient
• clientErrors
• elasticSearchClient
• emailNotification
• facetsClient
• kinesisClient
• licenceDataClient
• myFTClient
• sessionClient
• syncUserFollows
• userProfileClient