API-Builder Google-Maps Connector
Integrate Google-Maps services into your API-Builder flow using this connector. Google-Maps Services are a number of APIs provided by Google and this connector helps you to integrate with them easily.
Configuration
After installation and restarting your API-Builder project you get the following new flow-nodes:
Before you can make use it in your flow you have to configure your Google API-Key, which must be activated for the correct Google-APIs. Access the Google Console and learn more here.
During installation a new config file has been automatically created which must be completed with your Google-API-Key. You can do that directly from within the API-Builder UI:
We recommend to setup your configuration in a environmentalized way keeping sensitive information away from the source-code repository.
Google-Maps services
This Connector is based on the https://github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-js project. It's a good starting point to understand the APIs and their parameters reading the following documentation:
Tests
The connector is shipped with a number of Unit- and Integration tests. To execute the test-suite locally, please setup an environment variable:
GOOGLE_API_KEY=AIzaSyC...........Ws
And run the following command:
npm test
The tests are also automatically executed on every commit to this project.
Compatibility
Tested with Google-Maps Q1/2020
Requires API-Builder Independence or higher
Changelog
See CHANGELOG
Limitations/Caveats
The follow APIs are not yet supported:
- Place Photos
- Place Autocomplete
- Query Autocomplete
- Roads API
- Time Zone API
If you require on the of the unsupported APIs don't hestitate to create an issue
Contributing
Please read Contributing.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
Team
Axway Team