This SDK is a toolkit to access to Movable Type's DataAPI.

Some files generated by this product are parts of the Movable Type.

Using as a library for Node.js

Installation

  npm install git://github.com/movabletype/mt-data-api-sdk-js.git

or

  npm install <downloaded tarball>

Usage

var MT = {
    DataAPI: require("mt-data-api-sdk")
};
var api = new MT.DataAPI({
  baseUrl:  "http://example.com/mt/mt-data-api.cgi",
  clientId: "node"
});
var credential = {
  username: "USER_NAME",
  password: "PASSWORD",
  remember: true
};

// Session information will be stored to "$HOME/.mt-data-api.json" by default.
api.authenticate(credential, function(response) {
  if (! response.error) {
    api.listEntries(2, {status: "Draft"}, function(response) {
      // Do stuff
    });
  }
});

Development

Prerequisites

Installation depends on node, npm, bower, and grunt-cli

To install node, see http://nodejs.org/ (If you are using Mac, you can install node via homebrew)

Then, you can install grunt-cli with npm like the following. When you have some error in installation, try sudo.

  [sudo] npm install -g bower
  [sudo] npm install -g grunt-cli

Installation

git clone git@github.com:movabletype/mt-data-api-sdk-js, and move the directory you cloned, then execute the following command

  make

Building for develop

make dev task generate scripts in lib and dist directory from src directory, and run the dependant tasks

  make dev

Building for production

make build task generate optimized scrips in dist directory

  make build

Testing

make test task run tests with Node.js and PhantomJS.

  make test

You can also run tests with MT's PSGI Server, if you had been sat up MT and PSGI environment.

  MT_HOME=/path/to/mt make test

License

The MIT License (MIT)