51Degrees Pipeline Core

Developer Documentation

Introduction

The 51Degrees Pipeline API is a generic web request intelligence and data processing solution with the ability to add a range of 51Degrees and/or custom plug ins (Engines)

This package - fiftyone.pipeline.core

This package definds the essential components of the Pipeline API such as flow elements, flow data and evidence. It also packages together JavaScript served by a pipeline and allows for client side requests for additional data populated by evidence from the client side.

It can be used on its own or with the following additional packages.

• fiftyone.pipeline.engines - Adds a specialized type of flow element called an engine which allows for additional features including an auto-updating data file for properties, a service called when a requested property is missing and a caching system.

Engines created by 51Degrees including:

• fiftyone.devicedetection - A device detection engine
• fiftyone.location - A geolocation lookup engine

Make use of the above along with the following additional packages:

• fiftyone.pipeline.engines.fiftyone - Functionality specific to 51Degrees engines.
• fiftyone.pipeline.cloudrequestengine - An engine used to make requests to the 51Degrees cloud service.

Installation

npm install fiftyone.pipeline.core

Tests

To run tests you will need to install the jest library.

npm install jest --global

Then, navigate to the module directory and execute:

npm test

Examples

• examples/customFlowElements/1-simpleEvidenceFlowElement.js - Demonstrates how to create a custom flow element that takes some evidence (birthdate) and returns something related to that evidence (star sign)
• examples/customFlowelements/3-clientSideEvidenceFlowElement.js - Demonstrates how to modify the flow element from the 'simple evidence' example to gather evidence from code running on the client device (i.e. JavaScript).