node-red-contrib-dalet-webservice

Node-RED nodes to interact with the Dalet Galaxy SOAP Web Services (Apache CXF).

Nodes

dalet-config (config node)

Stores the server base URL and credentials. Handles login automatically — a session is created on the first request and re-established transparently on expiry.

| Field | Description | |----------|-------------| | Base URL | e.g. http://host:8080/DaletWebService/services | | Username | Dalet Galaxy login | | Password | Dalet Galaxy password |

dalet-request

Calls any operation on any of the 23 available SOAP services.

Input

| Property | Type | Description | |------------------|--------|-------------| | msg.payload | object | Operation parameters (keys = WSDL element names) | | msg.service | string | (optional) Override the configured service | | msg.operation | string | (optional) Override the configured operation |

Output

| Property | Type | Description | |---------------|------|-------------| | msg.payload | any | Parsed SOAP response (unwrapped from return if present) |

Available services

| Service | Key operations | |---------|----------------| | AssetService | getAsset, getAssetsById, createVideoAsset, deleteAsset, … | | MetadataService | getObjectMetadata, addMetadataToObject, updateObjectMetadata, … | | CategoryService | getCategory, createCategory, getSubCategories, … | | RundownService | getRundowns, createRundown, createStoryInRundown, … | | WorkflowService | startWorkflowOnAsset, getWorkflowInstanceById, … | | AuthenticationService | login | | (18 more) | See WSDL list |

Full WSDL list: http://<host>:8080/DaletWebService/services/

Examples

Get an asset by ID

msg.payload = { "assetId": 12345 }

Node config: AssetService → getAsset

Get metadata

msg.payload = {
  "objectId": 12345,
  "objectType": "ASSET",
  "firstIndex": 0,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Node config: MetadataService → getObjectMetadata

Search assets in a category

msg.payload = { "categoryId": 99 }

Node config: AssetService → getAssetsInCategory

Installation

cd ~/.node-red
npm install /path/to/node-red-contrib-dalet-webservice

Or via Node-RED palette manager if published to npm.