uttori-plugin-vm-random-documents

Uttori View Model Enrichment - Random Documents

A plugin to expose and add randomly selected documents to a view-model or other object.

Install

npm install --save uttori-plugin-vm-random-documents

Config

{
  // Registration Events
  events: {
    callback: ['view-model-home'],
  },
 
  // Key to use in the view model
  key: 'randomDocuments',
 
  // Number of documents to return.
  limit: 10,
 
  // A list of slugs to ignore
  ignore_slugs: [],
}

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API Reference

ViewModelRandomDocuments

Uttori View Model Enrichment - Random Documents

Kind: global class

• ViewModelRandomDocuments
  • .configKey ⇒ String
  • .defaultConfig() ⇒ Object
  • .validateConfig(config, _context)
  • .register(context)
  • .callback(viewModel, context) ⇒ Object

ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey ⇒ String

The configuration key for plugin to look for in the provided configuration.

Kind: static property of ViewModelRandomDocuments
Returns: String - The configuration key.
Example (ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey)

const config = { ...ViewModelRandomDocuments.defaultConfig(), ...context.config[ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey] };

ViewModelRandomDocuments.defaultConfig() ⇒ Object

The default configuration.

Kind: static method of ViewModelRandomDocuments
Returns: Object - The configuration.
Example (ViewModelRandomDocuments.defaultConfig())

const config = { ...ViewModelRandomDocuments.defaultConfig(), ...context.config[ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey] };

ViewModelRandomDocuments.validateConfig(config, _context)

Validates the provided configuration for required entries.

Kind: static method of ViewModelRandomDocuments

Param	Type	Description
config	Object	A configuration object.
config[ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey	Object	A configuration object specifically for this plugin.
config[ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey].key	String	The that will be added to the passed in object and returned with the random documents.
config[ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey].limit	String	The maximum number of documents to be returned.
_context	Object	A Uttori-like context (unused).

Example (ViewModelRandomDocuments.validateConfig(config, _context))

ViewModelRandomDocuments.validateConfig({ ... });

ViewModelRandomDocuments.register(context)

Register the plugin with a provided set of events on a provided Hook system.

Kind: static method of ViewModelRandomDocuments

Param	Type	Description
context	Object	A Uttori-like context.
context.hooks	Object	An event system / hook system to use.
context.hooks.on	function	An event registration function.
context.config	Object	A provided configuration to use.
context.config.events	Object	An object whose keys correspong to methods, and contents are events to listen for.

Example (ViewModelRandomDocuments.register(context))

const context = {
  hooks: {
    on: (event, callback) => { ... },
  },
  config: {
    [ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey]: {
      ...,
      events: {
        callback: ['document-save', 'document-delete'],
        validateConfig: ['validate-config'],
      },
    },
  },
};
ViewModelRandomDocuments.register(context);

ViewModelRandomDocuments.callback(viewModel, context) ⇒ Object

Queries for random documents and searches the storage provider.

Kind: static method of ViewModelRandomDocuments
Returns: Object - The provided view-model document.

Param	Type	Description
viewModel	Object	A Uttori view-model object.
context	Object	A Uttori-like context.
context.config	Object	A provided configuration to use.
context.config.key	String	The key to add the array of documents to on the view-model.
context.config.limit	Number	The maximum number of documents to return.
context.config.ignore_slugs	Array.<String>	A list of slugs to not consider when fetching random documents.
context.storageProvider	Object	A provided Uttori StorageProvider instance.
context.storageProvider.getQuery	function	Access method for getting documents.

Example (ViewModelRandomDocuments.callback(viewModel, context))

const context = {
  config: {
    [ViewModelRandomDocuments.configKey]: {
      ...,
    },
  },
  storageProvider: {
    getQuery: (query) => { ... }
  },
};
ViewModelRandomDocuments.callback(viewModel, context);

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Tests

To run the test suite, first install the dependencies, then run npm test:

npm install
npm test
DEBUG=Uttori* npm test

Contributors

• Matthew Callis

License

• MIT