grunt-edgecast-purge

Purge files from the Edgecast CDN

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

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-edgecast-purge --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-edgecast-purge');

The "edgecast_purge" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  edgecast_purge: {
    options: {
      customer: '1234A',
      authorization: 'TOK:your-hashed-authorization-token',
      edgeCNAME: 'http://your.edge.cname.com/',
      mediaType: 8
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  }
});

Options

options.customer

Type: String Default value: null

Required. Your Edgecast Account.

options.authorization

Type: String Default value: null

Required. Your Edgecast WebService REST API Token

options.edgeCNAME

Type: String Default value: null

Required. The Edge CNAME for the container you wish to purge.

options.mediaType

Type: Integer Default value: null

Required. An integer that indicates the service for which an asset will be purged. (2: Flash Media Streaming, 3: HTTP Large, 8: HTTP Small, 14: Application Delivery Network (ADN))

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

• 2015-01-25   v0.1.1   Make async a dependency, not just a devDependency
• 2015-01-25   v0.1.0   Work in progress, not yet officially released.