NowJs Client

This is a library to use in your front-end app to interact with the ZBox Now! API

Download & Install

You have different ways of downloading and installing the library

Npm

In your project just install the library with npm

npm install nowjs-client

Bower

In your project just install the library with npm

bower install nowjs-client

Download from GitHub

Download the .tar.gz from GitHub releases uncompress it and copy it somewhere in your project.

https://github.com/ZBoxApp/nowjs-client/releases/download/v0.1.5/nowjs-client-v0.1.5.tar.gz

Download from S3 or use it as a CDN

Download the js file from Amazon S3 or reference it directly in your project from:

https://s3-sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/zbox-now/nowjs-client/nowjs-client-v0.1.5.min.js

Or download the .tar.gz

https://s3-sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/zbox-now/nowjs-client/nowjs-client-v0.1.5.tar.gz

Usage

In your HTML file reference the plugin

    <script src="<path-to-the-js-file/nowjs-client-v0.1.5.min.js"></script>

API

When referencing the library in your project the window object will have another object called zbox.

To use the library API you need to first initialize it.

initialize(opts)

zbox.initialize(object)

opts must have set the following properties:

• client_id: The client ID provided by the ZBox Now! platform.
• client_secret: The client Secret provided by the ZBox Now! platform.
• username: The username which you want to appear in ZBox Now! when posting a new message.
• icon_url: The URL of an .png image to use as an icon or avatar for the user when posting a new message in ZBox Now!.

After you have initialize your API you will be able to use the following:

Channels

All access to the API related to channels lives inside the object

zbox.channels

getAll(string, function)

zbox.channels.getAll(teamName, callback)

Returns all the channels available for a team.

• teamName: The name of the team
• callback(error, channels): A callback function to be called with the result of getting all the channels for a team
  • error: Object

    {
      status: "Number with the status code",
      message: "String with error details"
    }

  • channels: Array of Objects

    [{
      id: "String with the id of the channel",
      type: "String channel or group",
      display_name: "String with the name of the channel as it appears to the users",
      name: "String with the name of the channel to use as an identifier"
    }]

getMembers(teamName, channelId, limit, callback)

zbox.channels.getMembers(string, string, number, function)

Returns the members for the specified team channel.

• teamName: The name of the team
• channelId: The id of the channel to get the members from.
• limit: The amount of members to return. If set to 0 or less it will return all the members.
• callback(error, members): A callback function to be called with the result of getting the channel members.
  • error: Object

     {
       status: "Number with the status code",
       message: "String with error details"
     }

  • members: Object

    {
      id: 'String with the id of the channel queried as string',
      members_count: "Number with the amount of memebrs in the channel",
      members: [{
          email: "String with member email address",
          id: "String with member user id",
          nickname: "String with member nickname (only present if it has one)",
          roles: "String with the role of the member (only present if it has one)",
          username: "String with member username"
      }]
    }

Users

All access to the API related to users lives inside the object

zbox.users

getAll(teamName, callback)

zbox.users.getAll(string, function)

Returns all the users available for a team.

• teamName: The name of the team
• callback(error, users): A callback function to be called with the result of getting all the users for a team
  • error: Object

    {
      status: "Number with the status code",
      message: "String with error details"
    }

  • users: Array of Objects

    [{
      id: "String with the user id",
      email: "String with the user email address",
      first_name: "String with the user first name (only present if it has been set)",
      last_name: "String with the user first name (only present if it has been set)",
      nickname: "String with the user nickname (only present if it has been set)",
      locale: "String with the user preferred locale",
      username: "String with the username"
    }]

getStatuses(teamName, usersId, callback)

zbox.users.getStatuses(string, array, function)

Return the status for the specified users. Status can be: online, away or offline.

• teamName: The name of the team
• usersId: Array with the id of every user from which to get the status
• callback(error, statuses): A callback function to be called with the result of getting all the users statuses
  • error: Object

    {
        status: "Number with the status code",
        message: "String with error details"
    }

  • statuses: Object

    {
      key1: "String with status",
      key2: "String with status"
    }

    key1, key2, etc.. corresponds to each of the userIds used in the array that match an user id in the team.

Messages

Send messages to a Channel in ZBox Now! using the API. There are two kind of messages that can be sent, a post to a specific channel or an ephemeral post to a specific user.

Ephemeral posts are messages that do not persists

All access to the API related to messages lives inside the object

zbox.messages

send(token, channelName, message, callback)

zbox.messages.send(string, string, string, function)

• token: The token to send messages which was granted by the incoming webhook
• channelName: The identifier name of the channel. If not channelName is set then it will post to the default Channel.
• message: The message to be sent (markdown supported)
• callback(error): A callback function to be called when the message is sent. if it was sent successfully then error is null
  • error: Object

    {
        status: "Number with the status code",
        message: "String with error details"
    }

sendEphemeral(token, channelName, userId, message, callback)

zbox.messages.sendEphemeral(string, string, string, string, function)

• token: The token to send messages which was granted by the incoming webhook
• channelName: The identifier name of the channel. If not channelName is set then it will post to the default Channel.
• userId: The id of the user to send the message to
• message: The message to be sent (markdown supported)
• callback(error): A callback function to be called when the message is sent. if it was sent successfully then error is null
  • error: Object

    {
        status: "Number with the status code",
        message: "String with error details"
    }