Overview

This library provides a bootstrapping mechanism to free the developer from boring, repetitive tasks like retrieving the values from the action object provided by Kaholo platform, parsing the parameters and settings.

The bootstrapping allows the plugin method to take the form of:

function pluginMethod(parameters)

instead of the typical

function pluginMethod(action, settings)

When using the bootstrapping, the developer can always be sure that the parameters the plugin method receives are parsed and validated based on their config.json definition. Moreover they are already combined with the settings, so no need to handle those separately. The parameters only consists of the values that are defined in config.json for the given method. They are also validated and no empty values are present in the parameters object.

Core library

bootstrap

function bootstrap(pluginMethods, autocompleteFunctions)

Allows to use more developer friendly version of plugin methods, removing the necessity of performing such repetitive tasks like manually parsing action arguments and settings.

Parameters

pluginMethods (object) – an object containing all of the plugin methods to be bootstrapped within Kaholo Plugin Library. The following parameters will be passed to each and every method provided in this object:

• parameters (object) – the object containing all of the parameters passed to an action combined with plugin settings. All of the values in this object are already parsed based on either type or parserType provided in config.json.
• originalParameters (object) – the original Kaholo plugin method parameters. The object contains two fields: actions and settings.

autocompleteFuncs (object) – an object containing all of the autocomplete functions to be bootstrapped with Kaholo Plugin Library. The following parameters will be passed to each and every function provided in this object:

• query (string) - a query to be used for result filtering
• params (object) - the object containing all of the parameters passed to an action combined with plugin settings. All of the values in this object are already parsed on either type or parserType provided in config.json.
• originalParameters – the original Kaholo plugin method parameters. The object contains two fields: actions and settings.

:information_source: Note: Using originalParameters in either plugin methods or autocomplete function is generally discouraged in favor of already parsed params object. originalParameters should only be used in case when access to the raw object is absolutely necessary – if you wonder if you need to use it, you probably don't.

Returned value

This function returns an objects of bootstrapped functions, ready to be exported form your main plugin script (most likely app.js).

Example usage

• config.json

{
	// ...
	"methods": [
		"name": "somePluginMethod",
		"params": [
			// ...
			{
				"name": "someArray",  
				"type": "text",  
				"parserType": "array",  
				"required": true,  
			}
			// ...
		]
	]
}

• app.js

const kaholo = require("kaholo-plugin-library");

function somePluginMethod(parameters) {
	// ...
}

module.exports = kaholo.bootstrap({ describeInstances }, {});

Helpers

readActionArguments

:warning: This function is meant to be used with raw action parameters and settings provided from Kaholo platform. If you intend to use bootstrap function and benefit from automatically parsed parameters, then you shouldn't use it! :warning:

function readActionArguments(action, settings)

Retrieves and parses the action parameters based on config.json definitions.

Parameters

action (object) – raw action object settings (object) – raw settings object

Returned value

An object containing all of the action parameters with parsed values.

Parsers

resolveParser

function resolveParser(type)

returns the appropriate parser function based on string type.

Parameters

type (string) – type name. Supported values are: object, int, float, number, boolean, vault, options, text, string, autocomplete, array

Returned value

A parsing function appropriate for given type

string

function string(value) 

Parses single or multiline string

Parameter

value (any) – value to parse

Returned value

String representing parsed value

autocomplete

function autocomplete(value) 

Parses autocomplete item, returns it's value as a string

Parameter

value (object) – Autocomplete item to parse

Returned value

String representing a value from autocomplete

boolean

function boolean(value) 

Parses a boolean value

Parameter

value (any) – value to parse

Returned value

Boolean representation of the provided value

number

function number(value) 

Parses a numeric value. Supports both integer and floating point numbers.

Parameter

value (any) – value to parse

Returned value

Numeric value parsed from provided argument

object

function object(value) 

Parses object from JSON value.

Parameter

value (JSON string) – value to parse

Returned value

Object parsed from JSON string

array

function array(value) 

Parses array from new line separated string

Parameter

value (string) – value to parse

Returned value

Parsed array of strings

Autocomplete

mapAutocompleteFuncParamsToObject

:warning: The functions below are meant to be used with raw action parameters and settings provided from Kaholo platform. If you intend to use bootstrap function and benefit from automatically parsed parameters, then you shouldn't use those :warning:

function mapAutocompleteFuncParamsToObject(params)

This function is used to create an object containing parsed values of the raw parameters or settings passed to autocomplete functions from Kaholo platform.

Parameters

params (object) – raw params or settings object received from Kaholo platform

Returned value

An object with all the parameters with parsed values.