SMS Segment Calculator
This repo contains a package for an SMS segments calculator. The package is released as a nodeJS package as well as a browser script. A browser demo for this package can be accessed here
Usage
nodeJS
The package can be installed using:
npm install --save sms-segments-calculator
Sample usage:
const { SegmentedMessage } = require('sms-segments-calculator');
const segmentedMessage = new SegmentedMessage('Hello World');
console.log(segmentedMessage.encodingName); // "GSM-7"
console.log(segmentedMessage.segmentsCount); // "1"
Browser
You can add the library to your page using the CDN file:
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/TwilioDevEd/message-segment-calculator/docs/scripts/segmentsCalculator.js" integrity="sha256-wXuHVlXNhEWNzRKozzB87Qyi9/3p6LKskjDXFHIMInw=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
Alternatively you can add the library to your page using the file segmentsCalculator.js
provided in docs/scripts/
and adding it to your page:
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/segmentsCalculator.js"></script>
And example of usage can be find in docs/index.html
Documentation
SegmentedMessage
class
This is the main class exposed by the package
constructor(message, encoding)
Arguments:
-
message
: Body of the SMS -
encoding
: Optional: encoding. It can beGSM-7
,UCS-2
,auto
. Default value:auto
encodingName
Returns the name of the calculated encoding for the message: GSM-7
or UCS-2
totalSize
Total size of the message in bits (including User Data Header if present)
messageSize
Total size of the message in bits (excluding User Data Header if present)
segmentsCount
Number of segment(s)
Try the library
If you want to test the library you can use the script provided in playground/index.js
. Install the dependencies (npm install
) and then run:
$ node playground/index.js "👋 Hello World 🌍"
Contributing
This code is open source and welcomes contributions. All contributions are subject to our Code of Conduct.
The source code for the library is all contained in the src
folder. Before submitting a PR:
- Run linter using
npm run lint
command and make sure there are no linter error - Compile the code using
npm run build
command and make sure there are no errors - Execute the test using
npm test
and make sure all tests pass - Transpile the code using
npm run webpack
and test the web page indocs/index.html
License
Disclaimer
No warranty expressed or implied. Software is as is.