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This component lets you work with the sensenet Content Repository (create or manage content, execute queries, etc.) by providing a JavaScript client API for the main content operations. The library connects to a sensenet's REST API, but hides the underlying HTTP requests. You can work with simple load or create Content operations in JavaScript, instead of having to construct ajax requests yourself.
Tested with the following sensenet services version:
npm install @sensenet/client-core
Your main entry point in this library is the Repository object. You can create an Instance by the following way:
import { Repository } from '@sensenet/client-core';
const repository = new Repository({
repositoryUrl: "https://my-sensenet-site.com",
oDataToken: "OData.svc",
sessionLifetime: "expiration",
defaultSelect: ["DisplayName", "Icon"],
requiredSelect: ["Id", "Type", "Path", "Name"],
defaultMetadata: "no",
defaultInlineCount: "allpages",
defaultExpand: [],
defaultTop: 1000,
});
- repositoryURL: The component will communicate with your repositoy using the following url. This will fall back to your window.location.href, if not specified. To enable your external app to send request against your sensenet portal change your
Portal.settings
. For further information about cross-origin resource sharing in sensenet check this article. - oDataToken: Check your Sense/Net portal's web.config and if the
ODataServiceToken
is set, you can configure it here for the client side. - sessionLifetime - You can change how user sessions should be persisted on the client, you can use 'session', whitch means the user will be logged out when closing a browser, or 'expiration', in that case the token expiration property will be used. This behaviour is implemented for JWT Authentication. (See JWT Token docs for further details)
- defaultSelect - These fields will be selected by default on each OData request. Can be a field, an array of fields or 'all'
- requiredSelect - These fields will always be included in the OData $select statement. Also can be a field, an array of fields or 'all'
- defaultMetadata - Default metadata value for OData requests. Can be 'full', 'minimal' or 'no'
- defaultInlineCount - Default inlinecount OData parameter. Can be 'allpages' or 'none'
- defaultExpand - Default fields to $expand, empty by default. Can be a field or an array of fields.
- defaultTop - Default value to the odata $top parameter
You can load a specified content by its full path or Id by the following way:
import { User } from "@sensenet/default-content-types";
const user = await repository.load<User>({
idOrPath: "/Root/IMS/BuiltIn/Portal/Visitor", // you can also load by content Id
oDataOptions: { // You can provide additional OData parameters
expand: ["CreatedBy"],
select: "all",
},
});
console.log(user); // {d: { /*(...retrieved user data)*/ }}
You can also load a content reference by providing a full reference path (e.g.: /Root/IMS/BuiltIn/Portal/('Visitor')/CreatedBy
)
If you want to load a content collection (children, query results or one-to-many references ) you can do it with the following method:
const portalUsers = await repository.loadCollection<User>({
path: "/Root/IMS/BuiltIn/Portal",
oDataOptions: {
query: "TypeIs:User",
orderby: ["LoginName"],
},
});
console.log("Count: ", portalUsers.d.__count);
console.log("Users: ", portalUsers.d.results);
You can execute specific POST, PATCH and PUT OData requests on the Repository instance:
const createdUser = await repository.post<User>({
parentPath: "Root/Parent",
contentType: "User",
content: {
Name: "NewContent",
/** ...additional content data */
},
});
// you can also use PUT in the similar way
const lockedUser = await repository.patch<User>({
idOrPath: "Root/Path/To/User",
content: {
Locked: true,
},
});
You can execute these batch actions right on the Repository instance:
// you can use move in the similar way
const copyResult = await repository.copy({
idOrPath: [45, "Root/Path/To/Content"],
targetPath: "Root/Target/Path",
});
const deleteResult = await repository.delete({
idOrPath: "Root/Path/To/Content/To/Delete",
permanent: true,
});
You can define and execute your custom OData actions by the following way:
interface ICustomActionBodyType { Name: string; Value: string; }
interface ICustomActionReturnType { Result: any; }
const actionResult = await repository.executeAction<ICustomActionBodyType, ICustomActionReturnType>({
idOrPath: "Path/to/content",
method: "POST",
name: "MyOdataCustomAction",
body: {
Name: "foo",
Value: "Bar",
},
});
console.log(actionResult.Result);
You can use built-in actions in the repository.security
and in the repository.versioning
namespaces on repository instances.