ninoxjs

ninoxjs

🤔 What is this?

This is a lightweight JS library for the Ninox REST API. This allows you to easily use the REST API in your JavaScript app without needing to look up your library ids and team ids or handle data encoding.

💡 What can I use it for?

I personally used this library to write endpoints for the following services:

• server for app payment and license management
• data analysis tools to analyse trends in data
• employee dashboards
• ticket systems
• and more

I'm excited to see what you are going to create with these tools. If you have any questions, please contact me at ✉️ [e-mail]

Can I help? I'm open to any help you might have. Please contact me at ✉️ [e-mail] before sending a pull request.

🚀 Install

npm install ninoxjs --save

const ninox = require('ninoxjs');

🧑‍🏫 Usage

ninox.auth(options : NinoxOptions) must be called once before using the API.

const ninox = require('ninoxjs/index.cjs');

ninox.auth({
	authKey: "xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
	team: "YOUR_TEAM_NAME",
	database: "YOUR_DATABASE_NAME",
}).then(() => {
	console.log("Auth successful");
	
	ninox.getRecords('YOUR_TABLE_NAME').then(records => {
		console.log(records);
	})
}).catch(err => {
    console.log("Failed to connect to Ninox Cloud", err);
});

Types

NinoxRecord

/**
 * @typedef {Object} NinoxRecord
 * @property {number} id - The id of the record
 * @property {number} sequence - The sequence of the record
 * @property {string} createdAt - The date the record was created
 * @property {string} createdBy - The user that created the record
 * @property {string} modifiedAt - The date the record was updated
 * @property {string} modifiedBy - The user that updated the record
 * @property {Object} fields - The content of the record
 **/

Example:

 {
   id: 6,
   sequence: 97,
   createdAt: '2022-06-28T19:35:01',
   createdBy: 'xxx',
   modifiedAt: '2022-07-02T12:34:39',
   modifiedBy: 'xxx',
   fields: {
       "Name": "My Deliverable",
       "Description": "This is a deliverable",
   },
  }

NinoxOptions

/**
* @typedef {Object} NinoxOptions
* @property {string} teamName - The name of the team to use
* @property {string} databaseName - The name of the database to use
* @property {string} authKey - The auth key for the API, can be found or created in the user account settings page of the ninox app
*/

Example:

{
    authKey: "xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
    team: "YOUR_TEAM_NAME",
    database: "YOUR_DATABASE_NAME",
}

🔦 Available methods

getRecords(tableName : String, filters : Object, extractFields? : String[], excludeFields? : String[]) : Promise<NinoxRecord[]>

Retrieves all NinoxRecords from the Table that match the filters.

Filters are always exact matches, use ninox.query to search with greater than, less than and other parameters.

Usage:

ninox.getRecords(
	'YOUR_TABLE_NAME', // Table name
    {
        "First Name": 'John', 
        Age : 21,
        "Last Name": 'Doe'
    },
    ['name', 'age'] // Fields to extract, leave undefined to extract all fields
);

// or
ninox.getRecords(
	'YOUR_TABLE_NAME', // Table name
	{
		"First Name": 'John',
		Age : 21,
		"Last Name": 'Doe'
	},
    [], //extract all fields
	['Phone'] // but exclude the field Phone
);


// returns all NinoxRecords
await ninox.getRecords('YOUR_TABLE_NAME').then(records => {
    console.log(records);
})

getRecord(tableName : String, id : Number, extractFields? : String[], excludeFields? : String[]) : Promise<NinoxRecord>

Returns a NinoxRecord from a table by id

Usage:

//returns a NinoxRecord with id 123 and trims the data to just the Age field
ninox.getRecord("YOUR_TABLE_NAME", 123, ['Age']).then(function(record) {
        console.log(record);
    }
)

//returns a NinoxRecord with id 123 and all fields
ninox.getRecord("YOUR_TABLE_NAME", 123).then(function(record) {
        console.log(record);
    }
)

saveRecords(tableName : String, records : NinoxRecord[]) : Promise<Boolean>

Saves NinoxRecords to a table in the database, omitting the id will create a new NinoxRecord, with the id will update the NinoxRecord

Usage:

//updates a NinoxRecord with id 1 with the data in the fields object
ninox.saveRecords("YOUR_TABLE_NAME", [{
	id: "1",
	fields: {
		field1: "value1",
		field2: "value2"
	},
}]);

//creates a NinoxRecord with the data in the fields object
ninox.saveRecords("YOUR_TABLE_NAME", [{
	fields: {
		field3: "value3",
		field4: "value4"
	},
}]);

deleteRecord(tableName : String, id : Number) : Promise<Boolean>

Deletes NinoxRecords from a table in the database.

Usage:

ninox.deleteRecord("YOUR_TABLE_NAME", 123).then(function(record) {
        console.log(record);
    }
)

deleteRecords(tableName : String, ids : Number[]) : Promise<Boolean>

Deletes all NinoxRecords from a table in the database.

Usage:

ninox.deleteRecords("YOUR_TABLE_NAME", [123, 124, 125]).then(function(record) {
        console.log(record);
    }
)

query(tableName : String, query : String) : Promise<Number|String|Array>

Allows you to query the database directly with a NX-Script, which can do greater than, less than and other functions like contain() etc.

important: this doesn't allow you to modify the database directly, only read it. Also Ids returned via query() will carry their table prefix (e.g. "A36")

Usage:

let name = "John"
let age = 21;
n.query(`(select YOUR_TABLE_NAME['First Name'="${name}" and Age >= ${age}])`).then(function(result) {
	console.log(result); //['A2','A7', 'A8']
    const ids = result.map(r => r.replace(/\D/g,'')) //remove the table prefix);
    
	n.getRecords('YOUR_TABLE_NAME', ids).then(function(records) {
		console.log(records);
	})

}).catch(function(err) {
	console.log(err);
});