locomotivecms_coal

Coal

The Ruby API Client for LocomotiveCMS V4.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Authentication
  • Resources
    • MyAccount
    • Accounts
    • Sites
    • Pages
    • Content Types
    • Content Entries
    • Snippets
    • Sections
    • Theme Assets
    • Content Assets
    • Translations
    • Memberships
• What is missing
• Contributing
• How to write specs
• Credits
• License

Installation

gem install locomotivecms_coal

Usage

First, load the gem:

require 'locomotive/coal'

Authentication

client = Locomotive::Coal::Client.new('http://www.myengine.dev', { email: <EMAIL>, api_key: <API KEY> })

You can get the version of the remote running Engine by calling the following method:

client.engine_version

Note: Coal supports Engine version ~> 3.0.x. However, if you do need to request an Engine running a 2.5.x version, use following code instead:

client = Locomotive::Coal::ClientV2.new('http://www.myengine.dev', { email: <EMAIL>, api_key: <API KEY> })

We do not garantee that all the API resources will work with the V2 Client but PRs are accepted of course.

Resources

MyAccount

Get the name of the logged in account

my_account = client.my_account.get
puts my_account.name + " / " + my_account.email

If not logged in, then it's possible to create your account

client = Locomotive::Coal::Client.new('http://www.myengine.dev')
client.my_account.create(name: 'John Doe', email: '[e-mail]', password: 'easyone', password_confirmation: 'easyone')

Update my account

client.my_account.update(name: 'Jane Doe')

Accounts

Only available for super administrators in the LocomotiveCMS engine

Create

new_customer = client.accounts.create(name: 'John', email: '[e-mail]', password: 'easyone', password_confirmation: 'easyone')
puts new_customer.name + " / " + my_account.email

Update an account

client.accounts.update(new_customer._id, name: 'Jane')

Sites

Get all my sites

my_sites = client.sites.all
puts "I've got #{my_sites.size}"

Create a new site

my_site = client.sites.create(name: 'Acme', handle: 'acme', locales: ['en'], timezone: 'UTC')

Destroy a site

my_site = client.sites.destroy(my_site._id)

Pages

Note: We first need to log in to the site. It can be done by calling the scope_by method of the client instance.

site = client.sites.by_handle('acme')
site_client = client.scope_by(site)

Or, in a shorter way:

site_client = client.scope_by('acme')

For the V2 Client, that would be this instead:

site = client.sites.by_subdomain('acme')

Get the list of pages in English

pages = site_client.pages.all(:en)

Get only the id/fullpath attributes

pages = site_client.pages.fullpaths(:en)

It is required when we need the id of an existing page according to its fullpath.

Create a page

page = site_client.pages.create(title: 'About us', slug: 'about-us', parent: 'index', template: 'Locomotive rocks!')

Update a page in French

site_client.pages.update(page._id, { template: 'Locomotive est trop fort!!!' }, :fr)

Destroy a page

site_client.pages.destroy(page._id)

Content Types

Get a content type by its slug

Note: We first need to log in to the site the content type belongs to. It can be done by calling the scope_by method of the client instance.

site = client.sites.by_subdomain('acme')
site_client = client.scope_by(site)

content_type = site_client.contents.projects

Content Entries

Get the first 10 entries filtered by a property (published)

articles = site_client.contents.articles.all({ published: true })

Loop over all the content entries

page = 1
while page do
  articles = site_client.contents.articles.all({ published: true }, page: page)
  articles.each { |article| puts article.title }
  page = articles._next_page
end

Note: You can also use the following syntax

content_type = site_client.contents.by_slug('projects')
articles = site_client.content_entries(content_type).all

Create a content entry

first_article = site_client.contents.articles.create(title: 'Hello world')

Update a content entry

article = site_client.contents.articles.all.first
site_client.contents.articles.update(article._id, { title: 'Hello world'})

Update a content entry in a different locale

# create the article in the default locale
article = site_client.contents.articles.create(title: 'Hello world')

# then update the title in another locale
site_client.contents.articles.update(article._id, { title: 'Bonjour le monde'}, :fr)

Destroy a content entry

site_client.contents.articles.destroy(article._id)

Snippets

Get the list of snippets

snippets = site_client.snippets.all

To get the snippets in the FR locale:

snippets_in_french = site_client.snippets.all('fr')

Create a snippet

snippet = site_client.snippets.create(name: 'Header', slug: 'header', template: 'Locomotive rocks!')

# create a snippet in different locales

snippet = site_client.snippets.create(name: 'Header', slug: 'header', template: { en: 'Locomotive rocks!', fr: 'Locomotive déchire !' })

Update a snippet

site_client.snippets.update('header', template: 'Locomotive rocks!!!')

Destroy a snippet

site_client.snippets.destroy('header')

Sections

Get the list of sections

sections = site_client.sections.all

Create a section

snippet = site_client.sections.create(name: 'Header', slug: 'header', template: 'Locomotive rocks!', settings: [{ id: 'title', type: 'string' }])

Update a section

site_client.sections.update('header', template: 'Locomotive rocks!!!')

Destroy a section

site_client.sections.destroy('header')

Theme assets

Get the list of theme assets

assets = site_client.theme_assets.all

Create a theme asset

asset = site_client.theme_assets.create(source: Locomotive::Coal::UploadIO.new('<local path of my image>'), folder: 'images/header')

Update a theme asset

site_client.theme_assets.update(asset._id, source: Locomotive::Coal::UploadIO.new('<local path of my new image>'))

Destroy a theme asset

site_client.theme_assets.destroy(asset._id)

Content assets

Get the list of content assets

assets = site_client.content_assets.all

Create a content asset

asset = site_client.content_assets.create(source: Locomotive::Coal::UploadIO.new('<local path of my image>'))

Update a content asset

site_client.content_assets.update(asset._id, source: Locomotive::Coal::UploadIO.new('<local path of my new image>'))

Destroy a content asset

site_client.content_assets.destroy(asset._id)

Translations

Get the list of translations

translations = site_client.translations.all

Create a translation

translation = site_client.translations.create(key: 'hello_world', values: { en: 'Hello world!', fr: 'Bonjour monde' })

Update a translation

site_client.translations.update(translation._id, values: { en: 'Hello world!!!', fr: 'Bonjour monde !!!'} ))

Destroy a translation

site_client.translations.destroy(translation._id)

Memberships

Get the list of memberships

memberships = site_client.memberships.all

Create a membership

membership = site_client.memberships.create(role: 'author', account_email: '[e-mail]')

Update a membership

site_client.memberships.update(membership._id, role: 'designer')

Destroy a membership

site_client.memberships.destroy(membership._id)

What is missing?

We only implemented a few resources (my_account, sites, content types, memberships and content entries) and for some of them, not all the actions have been implemented.

Check the issues section of the repository to see what is missing.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//locomotivecms/coal )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

How to write specs

Engine configuration:

1. You need to run the last version (master branch) of the Locomotive engine.
2. Pick a different database name to run your Coal specs against.
3. Run bundle exec rake development:bootstrap
4. Run the Locomotive server bundle exec rails server

System configuration:

• edit your /etc/hosts file (*NIX systems) and add 2 lines 127.0.0.0 www.example.com acme.example.com

Credits

Christian, Greg and Ben from the Cogip/Insert International LTD who brainstormed with me (a very long time) to find this awesome name.

License

Copyright (c) 2020 NoCoffee. MIT Licensed, see LICENSE for details.