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vp-ngx-jsonapi

This is a JSON API library for Angular 4+. Please use ts-angular-jsonapi for AngularJS.

Online demo

You can test library on this online example 👌 http://vp-ngx-jsonapi.reyesoft.com/.

Data is obtained from Json Api Playground.

Supported features

Cache (on memory): Before a HTTP request objects are setted with cached data.
Cache (on memory): TTL for collections and resources
Cache on localstorage
Pagination
Filtering by attributes through a string or a regular expression
Include param support (also, when you save)
Two+ equal resource request, only one HTTP call.
Equal requests, return a same ResourceObject on memory
Default values for a new resource (hydrator).
Properties on collections like $length, $is_loading or $source (empty |cache|server)

Usage

More information on examples section.

Installation

First of all, you need read, read and read Jsonapi specification.

yarn add vp-ngx-jsonapi --save
# or npm if you wish...

Dependecies and customization

Add Jsonapi dependency.
Configure your url and other paramemeters.
Inject JsonapiCore somewhere before you extend any class from Jsonapi.Resource.

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { NgxJsonapiModule } from 'vp-ngx-jsonapi';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    NgxJsonapiModule.forRoot({
      url: '//jsonapiplayground.reyesoft.com/v2/'
    })
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

Examples

Like you know, the better way is with examples. Lets go! 🚀

Defining a resource

authors.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Service, ISchema } from 'vp-ngx-jsonapi';

@Injectable()
export class AuthorsService extends Service<Author> {
    public resource = Author;
    public type = 'authors';
    public schema: ISchema = {
        relationships: {
            books: {
                hasMany: true
            },
            photos: {
                hasMany: true
            }
        }
    };
}
export class Author extends Resource {
    public attributes: {
        name: string,
        date_of_birth: string,
        date_of_death: string,
        created_at: string,
        updated_at: string
    };
}

Get a collection of resources

Controller

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ICollection } from 'vp-ngx-jsonapi';
import { Author, AuthorsService } from './authors.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'demo-authors',
  templateUrl: './authors.component.html'
})
export class AuthorsComponent {
  public authors: ICollection<Author>;

  public constructor(
    private authorsService: AuthorsService
  ) {
      authorsService.all(
          // { include: ['books', 'photos'] }
      )
      .subscribe(
          authors => {
              this.authors = authors;
              console.info('success authors controller', authors);
          },
          error => console.error('Could not load authors.')
     );
  }
}

View for this controller

<p *ngFor="let author of authors.$toArray">
  id: {{ author.id }} <br />
  name: {{ author.attributes.name }} <br />
  birth date: {{ author.attributes.date_of_birth | date }}
</p>

More options? Collection filtering

Filter resources with attribute: value values. Filters are used as 'exact match' (only resources with attribute value same as value are returned). value can also be an array, then only objects with same attribute value as one of values array elements are returned.

let authors = authorsService.all(
  {
  localfilter: { name: 'xx' },      // request all data and next filter locally
  remotefilter: { country: 'Argentina' }  // request data with filter url parameter
  }
);

Get a single resource

From this point, you only see important code for this library. For a full example, clone and see demo directory.

let author = authorsService.get('some_author_id');

More options? Include resources when you fetch data (or save!)

let author$ = authorsService.get(
  'some_author_id',
  { include: ['books', 'photos'] }
);

TIP: these parameters work with all() and save() methods too.

Add a new resource

let author = this.authorsService.new();
author.attributes.name = 'Pablo Reyes';
author.attributes.date_of_birth = '2030-12-10';
author.save();

Need you more control and options?

let author = this.authorsService.new();
author.attributes.name = 'Pablo Reyes';
author.attributes.date_of_birth = '2030-12-10';

// some_book is an another resource like author
let some_book = booksService.get(1);
author.addRelationship(some_book);

// some_publisher is a polymorphic resource named company on this case
let some_publisher = publishersService.get(1);
author.addRelationship(some_publisher, 'company');

// wow, now we need detach a relationship
author.removeRelationship('books', 'book_id');

// this library can send include information to server, for atomicity
author.save( { include: ['book'] });

// mmmm, if I need get related resources? For example, books related with author 1
let relatedbooks = booksService.all( { beforepath: 'authors/1' } );

// you need get a cached object? you can force ttl on get
let author$ = authorsService.get(
  'some_author_id',
  { ttl: 60 } // ttl on seconds (default: 0)
);

Update a resource

authorsService.get('some_author_id')
    .suscribe(
        author => {
            this.author.attributes.name += 'New Name';
            this.author.save(success => {
                console.log('author saved!');
            });
        }
    )

Pagination

let authors$ = authorsService.all(
  {
  // get page 2 of authors collection, with a limit per page of 50
  page: { number: 2 ;  size: 50 }
  }
);

Collection page

number: number of the current page
size: size of resources per page (it's sended to server by url)
information returned from server (check if is avaible) total_resources: total of avaible resources on server resources_per_page: total of resources returned per page requested

Local Demo App

You can run JsonApi Demo App locally following the next steps:

git clone git@github.com:reyesoft/vp-ngx-jsonapi.git
cd vp-ngx-jsonapi
yarn
yarn start

We use as backend Json Api Playground.

Colaborate

Check Environment development file 😉.

Usage no npm install needed!