Elevator JS API

Simple abstraction for interfacing with the Elevator JS API

Usage

const elevatorInstance = new elevator({
    key: "YOUR-KEY",
    secret: "YOUR-SECRET",
    baseURL: "https://YOUR-ELEVATOR-INSTANCE/api/v1"
});

const result = elevatorInstance.getCollections();
result.then((res) => {
    for (const collection in res) {
        console.log("Collection: ", res[collection]); 
    }
});

Installation

Using NPM or Yarn

npm install @umn-latis/elevator-js-api

yarn add @umn-latis/elevator-js-api

With a <script> tag

Added this before your main script:

<!-- index.html -->
<script
  src="https://unpkg.com/@umn-latis/elevator-js-api/dist/index.umd.min.js"
  async
></script>

API

getCollections

Get an array of all of the collections in the target instance as id:name object pairs.

Returns a Promise which will resolve to an array

getAssetsFromCollection

Get an array of all of the assets in the target collection.

Parameters:

• collectionId - the integer identifier for a collection
• pageNumber - an optional page number (zero indexed)

Returns a Promise which will resolve to an object:

{
    "searchResults": [],
    "totalResults": 59,
    "matches": [
        {
            // truncated - asset data
        }
    ],
    "success": true,
    "searchEntry": {
        "searchText": "",
        "collection": [COLLECTION_ID],
        "fuzzySearch": false
    },
    "assetsPerPage": 30
}

assetLookup

Get detailed information about an asset

Parameters:

• objectId - the string identifier for an object

Returns a Promise which will resolve to an object describing the object.

getAssetChildren

Get all of the files attached to an asset, including via related assets

Parameters:

• objectId - the string identifier for an object

Returns a Promise which will resolve to a string which can be used as an iframe src.

{
    "matches": [{
        "title": "FILE TITLE",
        "primaryHandlerId": "FILE OBJECT ID",
        "primaryHandlerTiny": "URL",
        "primaryHandlerTiny2x": "URL",
        "primaryHandlerThumbnail": "URL",
        "primaryHandlerThumbnail2x": "URL"
    }]
}

getEmbedContent

Get the embed code necessary to host a file object in an iframe.

Parameters:

• objectId - the string identifier for a file object

Returns a Promise which will resolve to a string which can be used in an iframe link.

fileLookup

Get detailed information about a file.

Parameters:

• objectId - the string identifier for a file object

Returns a Promise which will resolve to an object with detailed file information.

search

Search for records

Parameters:

• searchTerm - the string identifier for a file object
• pageNumber - an optional page number (zero indexed)

Returns a Promise which will resolve to an object with detailed file information.

{
    "searchResults": [],
    "totalResults": 59,
    "matches": [
        {
            // truncated - asset data
        }
    ],
    "success": true,
    "searchEntry": {
        "searchText": "YOUR TEXT",
        "fuzzySearch": false
    },
    "assetsPerPage": 30
}

License

MIT