grunt-akamai-rest-purge

Purging Akamai via their Rest Interface

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-akamai-rest-purge --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-akamai-rest-purge');

The "akamai_rest_purge" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named akamai_rest_purge to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  akamai_rest_purge: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Akamai-Options

Read more about Akamai-Purge-Request-Body here

options.auth (Mandatory)

Type: Object Default value: none Possible values: {user: '', pass: ''} or {username: '', password: ''} or {'bearer': 'bearerToken'}

Mandatory and used for Basic Authentication.

options.type

Type: String Default value: 'arl' Possible values: 'arl' or 'cpcode'

arl or cpcode. Requests of type arl can include ARLs, URLs, or both.

options.domain

Type: String Default value: 'production' Possible values: 'production' or 'staging'

options.action

Type: String Default value: 'remove' Possible values: 'remove' or 'invalidate'

remove deletes the content from Edge server caches. The next time an Edge server receives a request for the content, it will retrieve the current version from the origin server. If it cannot retrieve a current version, it will follow instructions in your server configuration. invalidate marks the cached content as invalid. The next time a server receives a request for the content, it sends an HTTP conditional GET (If-Modified-Since) request to the origin. If the content has changed, the origin server returns a full fresh copy. Otherwise, the origin normally responds that the content has not changed, and the Edge server can serve the already-cached content.

Request-Options

This Plugin uses internally the famous request-module. You can use all Options from Request (e.g. proxy)

Usage Examples

Basic Example

In this example 1 Task is registered.

The Task uses the default options (only Auth Options set).

grunt.initConfig({
  akamai_rest_purge: {
    options: {
      auth: {
        user: 'username',
        pass: 'password'
      }
    },
    all: {
      objects: ['http://www.your-domain.com/*']
    }
  },
});

Complex Example

In this example 2 Tasks are registered.

The Task all uses the default options.

The Task downloads uses the default options, overwrites the action attribute and sets a proxy.

grunt.initConfig({
  akamai_rest_purge: {
    options: {
      auth: {
        user: 'username',
        pass: 'password'
      }
    },
    all: {
      objects: ['http://www.your-domain.com/*']
    },
    downloads: {
      options: {
        action: 'invalidate',
        proxy: 'http://some-proxy.com'
      },
      objects: ['http://www.your-domain.com/downloads/*']
    }
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

0.1.1 - gruntplugin keyword in package.json

0.1.0 - Initial Version