com.conditionallyconvergent:vdms-api-client

VDMS Api Client

Java client library for consuming the Verizon Digital Media Services (formerly Uplynk) streaming API.

Goals

• Comprehensive support for the Verizon Digital Media Services API.
• Minimal dependencies. Currently the main source depends on only three libraries:
  • Lombok (for ease of request & response building)
  • Jackson Databind (for JSON serialization/deserialization)
  • Commons Codec (for HMAC encryption as required by the API)
• Broad compatibility. VDMSApiClient is written in Java 8, so can it be included in most current Java & Kotlin applications.
• Full test coverage.
• Robust error handling. VDMSApiClient aims to catch errors in requests before they are sent.

Usage

There are two ways you can use this library:

1. Using a higher-level VDMSApiClient, or
2. Using the lower-level VDMSApiGateway (which is what each VDMSApiClient uses itself).

Using a VDMSApiClient offers several advantages over the VDMSApiGateway, including:

• type safety
• clear signatures for requests and responses
• built-in JSON serialization/deserialization
• request validation

The disadvantage to using a VDMSApiClient is that you're limited to the APIs it supports. While this library strives to offer comprehensive support of the full range of VDMS streaming APIs, it only supports a small fraction of them at the current time.

The VDMSApiGateway allows you to consume any and all of the published VDMS streaming APIs. However, if you use it, you are responsible for handling request validation, JSON serialization/deseriazation, response error handling, etc.

Account credentials

Whether you use VDMSApiClient or VDMSApiGateway, you will need to supply three pieces of data:

• ROOT_URL: The root url of the VDMS API, currently https://services.uplynk.com
• OWNER: Your account User ID. You can find this on the VDMS Settings page.
• SECRET: Your account API Key. You can find this on the VDMS Integration Keys page.

VDMSApiClient

Instantiating a new instance:

VDMSChannelApiClient channelApiClient = new VDMSChannelApiClient(ROOT_URL, OWNER, SECRET);

For a full list of features, consult the tests; here are a few examples of things you can do with VDMSChannelApiClient:

• Listing all channels in your account:

  VDMSListChannelsResponse response = channelApiClient.listChannels();
  List<VDMSChannel> channels = response.getChannels();
  

• Creating a new channel:

  VDMSCreateChannelRequest request = VDMSCreateChannelRequest.builder()
      .title("A new channel")
      .build();
  VDMSCreateChannelResponse response = channelApiClient.createChannel(request);
  
  if (response.getError() == 0) {
      VDMSChannel channel = response.getChannel();
  } else {
      // handle error
  }
  

• Deleting a channel:

  VDMSChannel channel; // a channel you want to delete
  
  VDMSDeleteChannelRequest request = VDMSDeleteChannelRequest.builder()
      .id(channel.getId())
      .build();
  VDMSDeleteChannelResponse response = channelApiClient.deleteChannel(request);
  
  if (response.getError() != 0) {
      // handle error
  }
  

Notice that VDMSApiClient is built around a request/response pattern. Each API method takes in a request object of certain shape and returns a response object of a certain shape.

VDMSApiGateway

Instantiating a new instance:

VDMSApiGateway apiGateway = new VDMSApiGateway(ROOT_URL, OWNER, SECRET);

Here are the same actions described above, but using VDMSApiGateway instead:

• Listing all channels in your account:

  String response = apiGateway.call("/api2/channel/list");
  
  /*
  The response comes back as a string, which you'll have to parse manually (or use a JSON parser like Jackson).
  It looks something like this:
      {
           "channels": [
                  {
                      "title": "Live test dave 2",
                      "id": "7a35c56ea4014856bc74c0a375236cc5",
                      "external_id": "bif",
                      ...
                  }
                  {
                      "title": "audio-only live test",
                      "id": "c9f7f12f44abdfd48e2bb1a326877cd9",
                      "external_id": "",
                      ...
                  }
           ],
           "error": 0
      }
  */
  

• Creating a new channel:

  Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>() {{
      put("desc", "New Title");
      put("slicer_id", "my_slicer");
      put("meta", "{\"key1\": \"value1\"}");
  }};
  String response = vdmsApiGateway.call("/api2/channel/create", params);
  
  /*
  The response comes back as a string, which you'll have to parse manually (or use a JSON parser like Jackson).
  It looks something like this:
      {
          "test_player_url": "https://content.uplynk[-z].com/player5/Hak3zjnPLSW5o0j8GMpzRMsa.html",
          "test_players": [
              {"desc": "Monitoring Test Player",
               "id": "Hak3zjnPLSW5o0j8GMpzRMsa",
               "url": "https://content.uplynk[-z].com/player5/Hak3zjnPLSW5o0j8GMpzRMsa.html"},
              {"desc": "Affiliate Test Player",
               "id": "3fqeYp0yrG5Pk4bDqazn79",
               "url": "https://content.uplynk[-z].com/player5/3fqeYp0yrG5Pk4bDqazn79sa.html"}],
          "embed_player_url": "https://content.uplynk[-z].com/player5/1wEDDmfjafWGeCtDfm5L5s2SD26A1YDRJDy10r7pSCc4EikDu.html",
      	"meta": {"key1": "value1"},
          "require_drm": 1,
          "require_studio_drm": 1,
          "slicer_id": "my_slicer",
          "slicer_owner": "ea8b4debcf0d438ea44a34e0febf8a50",
          "title": "New Title",
          "live_delay": 10,
          "has_slicer": false,
          "created": 1318976590877,
          "id": "5915d84829405cb4db1bc3f71c10fc83",
          "deleted": 0,
          "embed_domains": "",
          "thumb_url": "",
          "external_id": "test_chan",
          "asset_autoexpire_hours": 24
      }    */
  

• Deleting a channel:

  List<String> ids = Collections.singletonList("0a671113bebb4192bf679db9ee146051"); // a list of ids of channels to be deleted
  List<String> externalIds = Arrays.asList("channel1", "channel2"); // a list of external ids of channels to be deleted
  
  Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>() {{
      put("ids", ids);
      put("external_ids", externalIds);
  }};
  String response = vdmsApiGateway.call("/api2/channel/delete", params);
  
  /*
  The response comes back as a string, which you'll have to parse manually (or use a JSON parser like Jackson).
  It looks something like this:
      {
          "deleted": [
              {
                  "external_id": "",
                  "id": "0a671113bebb4192bf679db9ee146051"
              },
              {
                  "external_id": "channel1",
                  "id": "54e40044a5f84050a483a5ce91cedab1"
              },
              {
                  "external_id": "channel2",
                  "id": "9c4e00aab263489aa7fd275a0c5cc478"
              }
          ],
          "error": 0
      }
  */
  

Contributing

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/alexbasson/vdms-api-client.git
$ cd vdms-api-client

Run the tests:

$ ./mvnw clean test

Pushing new code:

$ ./scripts/ship-it.sh