@appsocially/schedulerly-client

Schedulerly Client Quick Start guide

Installation

To install the latest version of schedulerly-client

yarn add @appsocially/schedulerly-client

Clients and authentication

This package includes 2 clients for admin and user access. Both will have almost the same API for managing slots. The differences are:

• admin will have full permission access to any user/calendar within the app, and requires a secret admin api key to be able to access the REST API. This client will also have special API to allow single user access by provide a custom login token for user. While this can be much more powerful with full access permission, it can be slow in some operation (latency of seconds).
• user will requires a custom token generated by the admin client (once), and will have limited access. They can only write to their own slots and calendar, and will have limited read permission on other's slots and calendars. While have less permission, this client can be faster than using just admin client (latency of hundreds milliseconds).

For better security and performance reason, a flavor of mixing both these 2 clients often is the recommended way to implement.

Quick-start

Most application will requires at least the custom token end-point for user client access, this will describe the minimal setup to be able to do just that.

Admin Client

This sample is using firebase functions as endpoint.

1. Step 1: Initialization The admin client needs to be initialized just once, and can be used any where.

• appToken: (Required) Secret app token for admin access.
• endPoint: (Required) Select which stage the client should connect to. There're 3 endpoints:
  • development: https://asia-northeast1-schedulerly-dev.cloudfunctions.net/api
  • stage: https://asia-northeast1-schedulerly-stage.cloudfunctions.net/api
  • production: https://asia-northeast1-schedulerly-prod.cloudfunctions.net/api

const schedulerly = require('@appsocially/schedulerly-client')
const functions = require('firebase-functions')
const endPoint = functions.config().schedulerly.baseurl
const appToken = functions.config().schedulerly.app_token

module.exports.schedulerlyService = schedulerly.admin.client({
  appToken,
  endPoint
})

1. Step 2: Create user Let says once an user registerd, a record of user data is added to /USERS/{ownerId} firestore path. We can use firestore trigger to also create an user on schedulerly.

const userPath = '/USERS/{ownerId}'
module.exports.onUserCreate = functions
  .firestore
  .document(userPath)
  .onCreate(async (snap, context) => {
    let result = await schedulerlyService.createUser({})
    console.log('Created user', result)
    const { userId } = result
    // Save the userId for token generator
    saveSchedulerlyUserId(context.params.ownerId, userId)
  })

1. Step 3: Custom token generator This step will provide us with an endpoint so that the user client can retrieve a token for client-side operations.

// We have initialized this service in step 1
const { schedulerlyService } = require('../utils/schedulerly')
const functions = require('firebase-functions')

exports.generateSchedulerlyToken = functions
  .region(ourRegion)
  .https
  .onCall((_, { auth }) => {
    // We would expect that the current user has already logged in into the 
    // application, so that we know their identity already. We then can 
    // figure out this user's schedulerly ID
    const schedulerlyUserId = getSchedulerlyUserId(auth.uid)
    return schedulerlyService.generateToken({ userId: `${schedulerlyUserId}` })
  })

User Client

These examples are written with vuejs.

1. Step 4: Initialization

import { SchedulerlyClient } from '@appsocially/schedulerly-client'

export const schedulerlyClient = new SchedulerlyClient({
  // The stage parameter would be for choosing which stage the client is using. 
  // The `admin` and `user` clients must be using the same stage.
  stage: process.env.VUE_APP_STAGE
})

If the user has already logged in into the application. This user can be authenticated with a custom token and will have permission to write into their own calendar and slots. For example: hiring-bot's employers who want to pick which days is available so that applicant can pick the date for an interview. Continue to step 5.1.
Otherwise, if the user is not logged in, and simply need to view the available slots to apply, like the applicant in the example above, continue to step 5.2.

1. Step 5.1: Authentication

The function schedulerlyClient.authenticate will return a promise, it must be called and finish before any other API is called. The function will check if the user has already been authenticated, if no onTokenRequired will be called and please call the endpoint created in step 3 and pass the result like below. If the user has already been authenticated, onTokenRequired will not be called and the functions will end immediately. After login, there's no expiration time for the user's session, so don't forget to signout when the user signout of the appplication.

// Exported schedulerlyClient from step 3
import { schedulerlyClient } from '@/helpers/schedulerly'

export default {
  methods: {
    mounted: () => {
      schedulerlyClient.authenticate({
        onTokenRequired: () => {
          // Call the endpoint created on step 2
          return generateSchedulerlyToken()
            .then(({ data }) => data.token)
        }
      }).then(() => {
        // Do other stuffs with schedulerlyClient
      })
    }
  }
}

1. Step 5.2: Skip authentication

There's a limited number of operation that an anonymous user can access, which are viewing the slots and calendars of an employer or trainer. This part is specifcally used for applicant side, which can only pick which slots for the meeting. Any operation that required write permission, must be implemented with admin client on server.

// Exported schedulerlyClient from step 3
import { schedulerlyClient } from '@/helpers/schedulerly'

export default {
  methods: {
    skipAuthenticateSchedulerlyClient ({ ownerId }) {
      schedulerlyClient.skipAuth({
        userId: await getSchedulerlyUserId(ownerId)
      })
    },

    mounted: () => {
      this.skipAuthenticateSchedulerlyClient({ ownerId: __id of calendar owner__ })
    }
  }
}

1. Step 5: Signout

When the user signout of the application, we must signout of schedulerly also.

schedulerlyClient.signOut()

APIs