Smartsheet SDK for JavaScript
This is a client SDK to simplify connecting to the Smartsheet API from Node.js applications.
System Requirements
The SDK supports Node.js versions 6.x or later.
Installation
To install this SDK, simply run the following command in a terminal window:
npm install smartsheet
Documentation
The Smartsheet API documentation with corresponding SDK example code can be found here.
Example Usage
To call the API, you must have an access token, which looks something like this example: ll352u9jujauoqz4gstvsae05. You can find the access token in the Smartsheet UI at Account > Personal Settings > API Access.
The following is a brief sample using promises that shows you how to:
- Initialize the client
- List all sheets
- Load one sheet
var client = require('smartsheet');
var smartsheet = client.createClient({
accessToken: 'll352u9jujauoqz4gstvsae05',
logLevel: 'info'
});
smartsheet.sheets.listSheets()
.then(function (result) {
var sheetId = result.data[0].id;
smartsheet.sheets.getSheet({id: sheetId})
.then(function(sheetInfo) {
console.log(sheetInfo);
})
.catch(function(error) {
console.log(error);
});
})
.catch(function(error) {
console.log(error);
});
Although the example above is using promises and the API documentation samples use promises, you could also access the APIs in this SDK by using callbacks.
smartsheet.sheets.listSheets({}, function(error, data) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log(data);
}
});
See the node-read-write-sheet project for a code example that shows how to call methods to read and write to a sheet using this SDK.
Basic Configuration
When creating the client object, pass an object with any of the following properties to tune its behavior.
Advanced Configuration Options
Logging Configuration
This library leverages winston for logging.
Supported log levels are:
Level | What is logged |
---|
'error' | Failures only |
'warn' | Failures and retries |
'info' | Each call URL and response code |
'verbose' | Payloads, truncated to 1024 characters |
'debug' | Full payloads |
'silly' | Full payloads and HTTP headers |
You may create your own winston container or configure the default winston.loggers
container, adding a logger named 'smartsheet'. Specify this container using the configuration option loggerContainer
. (winston documentation on configuring loggers.)
If you want to use your own logger, pass a logger object as the configuration option logger
that implements the following methods:
silly
, verbose
, debug
, info
, warn
, error
- Standard logging methodslog
- Similar to the above, but accepting the logging level string as its initial parameter; the log level is guaranteed be one of the above options.
Retry Configuration
For additional customization, you can specify a calcRetryBackoff
function. This function is called with two arguments:
- The first accepts the index of the retry being attempted (0 for the first retry, 1 for the second, etc.)
- The second accepts the Error Object that caused the retry.
The function must return the number of milliseconds to wait before making the subsequent retry call, or a negative number if no more retries should be made.
The default implementation performs exponential backoff with jitter.
Testing
The source code comes with several scripts for running tests:
Script | Action |
---|
npm run test | Runs all tests. Note, the mock API tests will fail unless the mock server is running |
npm run test-functional | Runs only functional tests |
npm run test-mock-api | Runs only mock API tests. Clone the Smartsheet SDK tests repo and follow the instructions from the README to start the mock server |
npm run coverage | Runs functional tests and reports on code coverage |
gulp jshint | Runs JSHint against the codebase |
gulp [watch] | Watches the codebase and runs JSHint whenever changes are made |
Contributing
If you would like to contribute a change to the SDK, please fork a branch and then submit a pull request.
More info here.
Support
If you have any questions or issues with this SDK please post on Stack Overflow using the tag "smartsheet-api" or contact us directly at api@smartsheet.com.
Release Notes
Each specific release is available documented here: GitHub