Resource Kit provides tools to aid in making API Clients. Such as URL resolving, Request / Response layer, and more.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'resource_kit'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install resource_kit
This library recommends using Kartograph for representing and deserializing response bodies. You'll see it in the examples provided below.
Resource Kit provides a comprehensive but intuitive DSL where you describe the remote resources capabilities. For example, where can I get a list of users? Where do I get a single user? How do I create a user?
When you're able to answer these questions, you can describe them in your resource class like this:
class DropletResource < ResourceKit::Resource
resources do
default_handler(422) { |response| ErrorMapping.extract_single(response.body, :read) }
default_handler(:ok, :created) { |response| DropletMapping.extract_single(response.body, :read) }
default_handler { |response| raise "Unexpected response status #{response.status}... #{response.body}" }
# Defining actions will create instance methods on the resource class to call them.
action :find do
verb :get # get is assumed if this is omitted
path '/droplets/:id'
handler(200) { |response| DropletMapping.extract_single(response.body, :read) }
end
action :all do
path '/droplets'
handler(200) { |body| DropletMapping.extract_collection(body, :read) }
end
action :create do
path '/droplets'
verb :post
body { |object| DropletMapping.representation_for(:create, object) } # Generate a response body from a passed object
handler(202) { |response| DropletMapping.extract_single(response.body, :read) }
end
end
endYou also have the option to use a shorter version to describe actions like this:
class DropletResource < ResourceKit::Resource
resources do
action :all, 'GET /v2/droplets' do
handler(:ok) { |response| DropletMapping.extract_collection(response.body, :read) }
end
end
endInstead of using #action, you can use any of the supported HTTP verb methods including #get, #post, #put, #delete, #head, #patch, and #options. Thus, the above example can be also written as:
class DropletResource < ResourceKit::Resource
resources do
get :all, '/v2/droplets' do
handler(:ok) { |response| DropletMapping.extract_collection(response.body, :read) }
end
end
endNow that we've described our resources. We can instantiate our class with a connection object. ResourceKit relies on the interface that Faraday provides. For example:
conn = Faraday.new(url: 'http://api.digitalocean.com') do |req|
req.adapter :net_http
end
resource = DropletResource.new(connection: conn)Now that we've instantiated a resource with our class, we can call the actions we've defined on it.
all_droplets = resource.all
single_droplet = resource.find(id: 123)
create = resource.create(Droplet.new)
ResourceKit classes give you the option to pass in an optional scope object, so that you may interact with the resource with it that way.
For example, you may want to use this for nested resources:
class CommentResource < ResourceKit::Resource
resources do
action :all do
path { "/users/#{user_id}/comments" }
handler(200) { |resp| CommentMapping.extract_collection(resp.body, :read) }
end
end
def user_id
scope.user_id
end
end
user = User.find(123)
resource = CommentResource.new(connection: conn, scope: user)
comments = resource.all #=> Will fetch from /users/123/commentsResourceKit supplys test helpers that assist in certain things you'd want your resource classes to do.
Make sure you:
require 'resource_kit/testing'
Testing a certain action:
# Tag the spec with resource_kit to bring in the helpers
RSpec.describe MyResourceClass, resource_kit: true do
it 'has an all action' do
expect(MyResourceClass).to have_action(:all).that_handles(:ok, :no_content).at_path('/users')
end
it 'handles a 201 with response body' do
expect(MyResourceClass).to handle_response(:create).with(status: 201, body: '{"users":[]}') do |handled|
expect(handled).to all(be_kind_of(User))
end
end
endThings we've thought about but just haven't implemented are:
- Pagination capabilities
- Fork it ( https://github.com/digitaloceancloud/resource_kit/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request
- Update the version
- Commit the version and push it to master
- Run
rake release
Note: In order to run rake release you must be authenticated w/ rubygems.org. To do this, you need to locate the rubygems account information contained within DOs lastpass account (search for rubygems).
Once you have done this, do the following:
gem push- Follow the prompts and add the required information
- Run
rake release
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