activetick

node-activetick-addon

ActiveTick API addon for Node.js

Author: Jae Yang - [dchem] (https://keybase.io/dchem)

Change Notes:

• 2017-07-06 - 1.2.0 - Fixes segfault on invalid symbols
• 2017-06-10 - 1.1.7 - Fixes for Node 6.11 installation
• 2015-09-26 - 1.0.11 - Adds Node 4.0 support
• 2015-09-09 - 1.0.10 - Removes github nonsense
• 2015-06-27 - 1.0.8 - Fixes build (removed sourceforge)
• 2015-05-25 - 1.0.0 - Working 1.0 version
• 2015-02-18 - 0.0.1 - Initial commit

Installation dependency

• Download Activetick cppsdk from Activetick.com website, unpack into working directory where you will run npm install activetick.
• Install Python
• Install node-gyp

npm install node-gyp -g

• Install unzip if Linux

sudo apt-get install unzip

Additional installation dependency for Windows:

• Install MinGW
• Install msys-unzip instead of unzip
• Install msys-wget

mingw-get install msys-unzip
mingw-get install msys-wget

• Install Microsoft Visual Studio

Installation from NPM:

npm install activetick

For Windows with MSVS 2013:

npm install activetick --msvs_version=2013

For Windows with MSVS 2012:

npm install activetick --msvs_version=2012

Alternatively, include GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2012 or GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013 in environment variables for Windows.

Additional installation dependency for OS X:

• Install xcode command line tools
• Install homebrew
• Install wget through homebrew

Installation from git repo:

• Make sure to have Activetick API package downloaded to two directories up from this project
• Run the preinstall.sh which does the following:

• Copies the Activetick API package and places them in the import directory
• Download libjson 7.6.1

• node-gyp rebuild
• If build fails because you have VS2012, use node-gyp --msvs_version=2012 rebuild

Usage

• Require activetick
• Create event handlers
• Register event handlers for messageIds
• Incoke connect
• ...
• Profit!

var addon = require('activetick');
var messageIds = addon.messageIds;
var api = new addon.NodeActivetick();

var activetickCb = function (data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data,null,2));
};

// See messageId.js for message types to be tracked
Object.keys(messageIds).forEach(function (messageId) {
  api.handlers[messageId] = activetickCb;
});

// Don't put credentials in your scripts. Make sure you export
//   them as environment variables
var connected = api.connect( process.env.ATAPIKEY,
                             "activetick1.activetick.com",
                             5000,
                             process.env.ATUID,
                             process.env.ATPWD );

if (connected) {
  api.beginProcessing();
}

Activetick API Methods

For more details, see activetick.js or run jsdoc on the package directory

.getSessionHandle()
.closeAllATRequests()
.closeATRequest()
.sendATBarHistoryDbRequest( request )
.sendATLoginRequest( request )
.sendATMarketHolidaysRequest( request )
.sendATMarketMoversDbRequest( request )
.sendATMarketMoversStreamRequest( request )
.sendATQuoteDbRequest( request )
.sendATQuoteStreamRequest( request )
.sendATTickHistoryDbRequest( request )
.sendATSectorListRequest( request )
.sendATConstituentListRequest( request )
.connect( apiKey, serverAddr, port, userid, passwd )

Issues:

• See issues list in https://gitlord.com/tickets/~dchem%2Fnode-activetick-addon.git?status=new&status=open

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Jae Yang. See LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).