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Hydra Box middleware

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hydra-box

Hydra is a machine readable description for APIs. Hydra Box extends the API description with links to the actual code, which provides the API. Hydra Box will use such an API description to create an express middleware which provides the API and dynamically loads the required code for it.

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Application

Hydra-Box uses an object that implements the RDF/JS Store interface to read resources and find types of resources to identify matching operations. The resource is read using the IRI as named graph filter.

Here an example for a store on the local file system using rdf-store-fs:

const FlatMultiFileStore = require('rdf-store-fs/FlatMultiFileStore')

const store = new FlatMultiFileStore({
  baseIRI: 'http://localhost:9000/',
  path: 'store'
})

An Api object contains the dataset of the API documentation, where to find it and where to find the code. The static method .fromFile reads the dataset from the given file and creates an Api object with the given options.

const api = await Api.fromFile('api.ttl', {
  path: '/api',
  codePath: __dirname
})

Once both objects are created, the middleware can be used:

const app = express()
app.use(hydraBox(api, store))
app.listen(9000)

Operation

The operations must implement a Express routing handler interface ((req, res, next) => {}). Hydra-Box adds the @rdfjs/express-handler to handle incoming and outgoing RDF data. For GET requests with a matching IRI Template, the .dataset() and .quadStream() as defined by express-handler are also available to read the given variables. Additionally there is a hydra property assigned to req that contains more data about the request:

  req.hydra = {
    // Api object given as argument to the middleware
    api,
 
    // RDF/JS Store object given as argument to the middleware
    store,
 
    // requested URL as RDF/JS NamedNode
    term,
    
    // the selected hydra:Operation as Graph Pointer
    operation,

    // resource this request is about
    // This can be the requested URL for the case that a class operation is called.
    // For the case that a property operation is called, this is the subject of the triple used to link to the property.
    resource: {

      // IRI of the resource as RDF/JS NamedNode
      term,

      // content of the resource read from the store as RDF/JS Dataset 
      dataset,

      // rdf:types of the resource as @rdfjs/term-set
      types
    }
  }

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Package last updated on 25 Jul 2022

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