Fetch one or more documents from the Preview / Live Terminus content API, based on the current execution domain
$ npm i @abcnews/terminus-fetch
To use this library, you must have a Terminus API key, and expose it on the enviromnent variable TERMINUS_FETCH_API_KEY
. For @abcnews/aunty
-based projects, we currently recommend placing it in a .env
file in your project directory, so that it is bundled with your app.
import { fetchOne, search } from '@abcnews/terminus-fetch';
// By default, we assume you want an Article document from Core Media so you can pass a CMID:
fetchOne(10736062, (err, doc) => {
if (!err) {
console.log(doc);
// > { id: 10736062, docType: "Article", contentSource: "coremedia", ... }
}
});
// ...or you can pass an options object to override the defaults (see API below):
fetchOne({ id: 10734902, type: 'video' }, (err, doc) => {
if (!err) {
console.log(doc);
// > {id: 10734902, docType: "Video", contentSource: "coremedia", ... }
}
});
// You can use promises instead of callbacks:
fetchOne({ id: 123860, type: 'show', source: 'iview' })
.then(doc => {
console.log(doc);
// > { id: 123860, docType: "show", contentSource: "iview", ... }
})
.catch(err => console.error(err));
// Searching is also supported:
search({ limit: 3, doctype: 'image' }), (err, docs) => {
if (!err) {
console.log(docs);
// > [
// { id: 11405582, docType: "Image", contentSource: "coremedia", ... },
// { id: 11404970, docType: "Image", contentSource: "coremedia", ... },
// { id: 11405258, docType: "Image", contentSource: "coremedia", ... }
// ]
}
});
// ...for all sources...:
search({ limit: 1, source: 'mapi', service: 'triplej'})
.then(docs => {
console.log(docs);
// > [
// { id: "maaYa1B4YP", docType: "Artist", ... },
// { id: "mpr9PpbkRd", docType: "Play", ... },
// { id: "mtOKj2DbNK", docType: "Recording", ... },
// { id: "mrDXgzL4Ry", docType: "Release", ... }
// ]
})
.catch(err => console.error(err));
If your project's JS is currently executing in a page on *.aus.aunty.abc.net.au
, requests will be made to Preview Terminus (https://api-preview.terminus.abc-prod.net.au/api/v2/{teasable}content
), otherwise they'll be made to Live Terminus (https://api.abc.net.au/terminus/api/v2/{teasable}content
).
If you want to direct a single request to Live Terminus, regardless of the current execution domain, pass force: "live"
as an option.
If you want to direct a single request to Preview Terminus, regardless of the current execution domain, pass force: "preview"
as an option.
If you want only need a document's metadata (e.g. an article without full text content), pass isTeasable: true
as an option and the document will be fetched from the /teasablecontent/
API, instead of the /content/
API.
declare function fetchOne(
options:
| string
| number
| {
source?: string;
type?: string;
id?: string | number;
force?: 'preview' | 'live';
isTeasable?: string;
},
done?: (err?: ProgressEvent | Error, doc?: Object) => void
): void | Promise<Object>;
If the done
callback is omitted then the return value will be a Promise.
{
source: 'coremedia',
type: 'article',
}
declare function search(
options: {
source?: string;
force?: "preview" | "live";
...searchParams: Object;
},
done?: (err?: ProgressEvent | Error, doc?: Object) => void
): void | Promise<Object>;
...where your searchParams
are additional properties on your options
object, to query the API.
For example, if you wanted the last 20 images added to Core Media, your searchParams
would be:
{
limit: 20,
doctype: 'image'
}
If the done
callback is omitted then the return value will be a Promise.
These are the same as fetchOne
, only split across two options arguments.
This takes an image document returned from terminus (Image, ImageProxy or CustomImage doctypes) and returns a normalised object including available image renditions.
declare function getImages(doc: any, targetWidths?: number[]): ImageData;
There is no guarantee that the returned object will contain the widths requested using the targetWidths
argument. Consumers of this library should always check the result to see if they got what they wanted and behave accordingly.
Default for this argument is: [160, 240, 480, 700, 940, 1400, 2150]
Note: There is no guarantee about which aspect ratios are available for a given image.
The results have the following type:
declare type ImageData = {
cmid: string;
title?: string;
alt?: string;
caption?: string;
attribution?: string;
canonicalURL: string;
defaultRatio?: string;
renditions: ImageRendition[];
};
declare type ImageRendition = {
width: number;
height: number;
ratio: string;
url: string;
isUndersizedBinary: boolean;
};
There are a couple of gotchas in here related to image proxies. The cmid
and canonicalURL
properties will be those of the proxy, not the target image.
It's possible that the binary URL a rendition points to is actually smaller than the dimensions in the object. This is because small originals are never upscaled by the image resizer, but can still be requested. This situation is flagged by the isUndersizedBinary
property.
npm run release
will handle version bumping, git pushing and npm publication for you.
- Colin Gourlay ([email protected])