Domino REST API Node.js SDK

Domino REST API Node.js SDK is a library that can help Node.js developers to build applications that uses Domino REST API. Domino REST API Node.js SDK also supports TypeScript.

(C) 2023 HCL America Inc. Apache-2.0 license https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

📔 Documentation

• Domino REST API documentation
• Using Domino REST API Node.js SDK examples
• Github repository
• TypeDoc API documentation

⬇️ Installation

First, have a running Domino REST API server, and next, install Node.js. Make sure the version is >18.0.0 as Domino REST API Node.js uses the native fetch method available on that version. Then run:

npm install @hcl-software/domino-rest-sdk-node

⭐ Highlights

• Supports both JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Has built-in methods for the following Domino REST API calls:
  • Basis:
    • /document
    • /document/{unid}
    • /bulk/create
    • /bulk/{unid}
    • /bulk/update
    • /bulk/delete
    • /query
    • /richtext/{richTextAs}/{unid}
    • /lists
    • /lists/{name}
    • /listspivot/{name}
  • Setup:
    • /design/{designType}/{designName}
    • /admin/scope
    • /admin/scopes

📦 Importing

You can import the whole SDK via:

// Using Node.js `require()`
const drapiSdk = require('@hcl-software/domino-rest-sdk-node');

// Using ES6 imports
import drapiSdk from '@hcl-software/domino-rest-sdk-node';

Or, you can import only the modules that you need, like:

// Using Node.js `require()`
const { DominoAccess } = require('@hcl-software/domino-rest-sdk-node');

// Using ES6 imports
import { DominoAccess } from '@hcl-software/domino-rest-sdk-node';

🔬 Overview

Domino REST API Node SDK has four moving parts:

• DominoAccess
• DominoServer
• DominoConnector
• Sessions
  • DominoUserSession
  • DominoBasisSession
  • DominoSetupSession

ℹ️ DominoAccess

DominoAccess is a class that facilitates your access to the Domino REST API server. It takes in a baseUrl, which is your Idp provider, as well as your credentials, such as your username, password, scope and type (the authentication type: basic or oauth).

ℹ️ DominoServer

DominoServer is a class that gets information on what APIs are available on your current server. It takes in a url to your Domino REST API server as a parameter. This class produces a DominoConnector class base on your chosen API.

ℹ️ DominoConnector

DominoConnector is the class that does the actual communication between the Domino REST API Node SDK and your Domino REST API server.

ℹ️ Sessions

Sessions are classes that contains all the operations you can perform on your Domino REST API server. There are three classes under this, namely:

• DominoUserSession
• DominoBasisSession
• DominoSetupSession

DominoUserSession has generic request methods, which allows you to perform an operation from scratch.

DominoBasisSession contains all built-in methods for BASIS API operations.

DominoSetupSession contains all built-in methods for SETUP API operations.

🎮 Running a Domino REST API operation using the SDK

Here is an example of how to use the four moving parts mentioned above in order to execute one Domino REST API Node SDK.

import drapiSdk from '@hcl-software/domino-rest-sdk-node';

const start = async () => {
  const credentials = {
    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8880',
    credentials: {
      scope: '$DATA',
      type: 'basic',
      username: 'username',
      password: 'password',
    },
  };
  // Create DominoAccess
  const dominoAccess = new drapiSdk.DominoAccess(credentials);
  // Create DominoServer
  const dominoServer = await drapiSdk.DominoServer.getServer('http://localhost:8880');
  // Since in this example we will be performing a BASIS API operation (createDocument),
  // we will use the DominoBasisSession class in order to use the built-in createDocument method.
  const dominoBasisSession = await drapiSdk.DominoBasisSession.getBasisSession(dominoAccess, dominoServer);

  // Create a Domino document
  await dominoBasisSession.createDocument(...)
    .then((document) => console.log(JSON.stringify(document.toJson(), null, 2)))
    .catch((error) => console.log(error));
}

start();

For other examples, please go to our examples.