buttress-api-js

Latest: 2.5.2

• ADDED: get user by token API (#8)

2.5.1

• ADDED: mongo project to filter returned results (#7)

2.5.0

• ADDED: Query, Limit, Skip, Sort to search & count APIs

2.4.1

• ADDED: Added count api to each schema

2.4.0

• TODO: Write some notes

2.3.5

• ADDED: Generate a id locally when creating collection documents
• BUMP: dependencies (mongodb), devDependencies (eslint, mocha)

2.3.4

• ADDED: Customer Error definitions for NotYetInitiated && SchemaNotFound
• ADDED: Test for interacting with a buttress app after a schema update
• FIX: Fetch the latest compiled Schema after a schema update

2.3.3

• FIX: Failing to update app roles due to non-array being passed

2.3.2

• ADDED: Allow user to pass allowUnauthorized to bypass invalid cert

2.3.1

• FIX: incorrect dependency name Helper -> Helpers

2.3.0

• REFACTOR: Removed restler and replaced with axios
• TWEAK: Testing, added bulk companies save
• REFACTOR: Bulk save with return the newly added objects
• REFACTOR: getCollection should reference collection
• ADDED: Block user from calling getCollection before init

2.2.1

• FIX: Update outdated npm packages

2.2.0

• ADDED: Schema method for creating a object with default values
• ADDED: Helpers for schema handling (flattern, inflate)
• ADDED: data type 'id' now has default 'new' which will generate a new id

2.1.4

• FIX: Update package.json engine 'node' version

2.1.3

• FIX: Token not passed through from default options to get request

2.1.2

• FIX: Removed APIs using load/create -> get/save

2.1.1

• ADDED: API under Auth for creating new tokens for a user

2.1.0

• ADDED: Apps API's are now prefixed with there own name

2.0.1

• ADDED: API for updating a token role

2.0.0 :tada:

• ADDED: API support for custom schema. (Core schema are now stripped down).
• ADDED: Ability to pass app roles object to buttress
• REFACTOR: Breaking data changes to all core API's (app, auth, user, token).

For the v1 change list please see ./changelog.md

Installation

npm install buttress-js-api

Usage

First of all you need to initialise Buttress with a valid App Token. App Tokens are created in Buttress by the system administrator.

const Buttress = require('buttress-js-api');
Buttress.init({
  buttressUrl: 'http://buttress.url',
  apiPath: 'my-app',
  appToken: 'Get this from the Buttress Admin',
  version: 1
});

Once you have initialised Buttress you can use it as follows:

User Auth

This creates a Buttress user based on OAuth2 user flow authentication leading to a token and tokenSecret. In addition to the basic information Buttress stores these properties:

var user = {
  app: 'twitter',
  id: profile.id,
  token: token,
  tokenSecret: tokenSecret,
  name: profile._json.name,
  username: profile.username,
  profileUrl: `https://twitter.com/${profile.username}`,
  profileImgUrl: profile._json.profile_image_url,
  bannerImgUrl: profile._json.profile_banner_url
};
  
Buttress.Auth.findOrCreateUser(user)
  .then(buttressUser => cb(null, buttressUser))
  .catch(Logging.Promise.logError());

User data is shared across all Buttress applications based on trusted OAuth application Ids.

User Metadata

User metadata is silo'ed on a per application basis. Specify the default value for when there is no metadata in the database.

buttress.User.loadMetadata(userButtressId, 'KEY_NAME', [])
  .then(data => Logging.log(data))
  .catch(err => Logging.log(err));

Buttress.User.saveMetadata(userbuttressId, 'KEY_NAME', {foo:true, bar:false})
  .then(data => Logging.log(data))
  .catch(err => Logging.log(err));

User

Buttress.User.get(buttressUserId)
  .then(u => {
    var twauth = u.auth.find(a => a.app === 'twitter');
    if (!twauth) {
      return;
    }
    // Do something useful with the user twauth.token && twauth.tokenSecret

App Metadata

Applications have metadata (specify the default value for when there is no metadata in the database):

Buttress.App.loadMetadata('KEY_NAME', [])
  .then(data => Logging.log(data))
  .catch(err => Logging.log(err));

Buttress.User.saveMetadata('KEY_NAME', {foo:true, bar:false})
  .then(data => Logging.log(data))
  .catch(err => Logging.log(err));