Getting Started with PostNL Ecommerce APIs

Introduction

Collection of PostNL API's for ecommerce processes

Install the Package

Run the following command from your project directory to install the package from npm:

npm install [email protected]

For additional package details, see the Npm page for the [email protected] npm.

Initialize the API Client

Note: Documentation for the client can be found here.

The following parameters are configurable for the API Client:

| Parameter | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | environment | Environment | The API environment. Default: Environment.Production | | timeout | number | Timeout for API calls.Default: 0 | | httpClientOptions | Partial<HttpClientOptions> | Stable configurable http client options. | | unstableHttpClientOptions | any | Unstable configurable http client options. | | apikey | StringEnum | |

HttpClientOptions

| Parameter | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | timeout | number | Timeout in milliseconds. | | httpAgent | any | Custom http agent to be used when performing http requests. | | httpsAgent | any | Custom https agent to be used when performing http requests. | | retryConfig | Partial<RetryConfiguration> | Configurations to retry requests. |

RetryConfiguration

| Parameter | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | maxNumberOfRetries | number | Maximum number of retries. Default: 0 | | retryOnTimeout | boolean | Whether to retry on request timeout. Default: true | | retryInterval | number | Interval before next retry. Used in calculation of wait time for next request in case of failure. Default: 1 | | maximumRetryWaitTime | number | Overall wait time for the requests getting retried. Default: 0 | | backoffFactor | number | Used in calculation of wait time for next request in case of failure. Default: 2 | | httpStatusCodesToRetry | number[] | Http status codes to retry against. Default: [408, 413, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, 521, 522, 524] | | httpMethodsToRetry | HttpMethod[] | Http methods to retry against. Default: ['GET', 'PUT'] |

The API client can be initialized as follows:

const client = new Client({
  timeout: 0,
  environment: Environment.Production,
  apikey: 'apikey',
});

Environments

The SDK can be configured to use a different environment for making API calls. Available environments are:

Fields

| Name | Description | | --- | --- | | production | Default | | environment2 | - |

Authorization

This API uses Custom Header Signature.

List of APIs

• Postalcodecheck
• Track Trace
• Checkout
• Deliverydate
• Locations
• Timeframes
• Labelling
• Barcode
• Confirming

Classes Documentation

• ApiResponse
• ApiError