README.md

# DatoCMS Client

Provides access to data in a DatoCMS site.

## Installation

The package can be installed
by adding `datocms_rest_client` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

```elixir
def deps do
  [{:datocms_rest_client, "~> 0.3.0"}]
end
```

# Configuration

## Via `config.exs`

Assuming your `config/config.exs` includes environment-specific secrets files
excluded from your repo, put the following in `{dev|production}.secrets.exs`:

```elixir
config :datocms_rest_client, :api_config,
  %{headers: ["Authorization": "Bearer nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"]}
```

Where `nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn` should be replaced by either your read-write or
read-only DatoCMS API key.

If you are only reading data, you can use your read-only access token.

If you see timeout errors when downloading data, add the following:

```elixir
config :datocms_rest_client, :api_config,
  %{
    headers: ["Authorization": "Bearer nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"],
    options: [recv_timeout: :infinity]
  }
```

## Programmatically

```
Application.put_env(
  :datocms_rest_client,
  :api_config,
  %{
    headers: ["Authorization": "Bearer nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"],
    options: [recv_timeout: :infinity]
  }
)
```

# Overview

## DatoCMS.Client

This module contains a REST client for the datocms.com API. The code is
generated by the `json_hyperschema_client_builder`.

The generated documentation can be found at
[https://hexdocs.pm/datocms_rest_client](https://hexdocs.pm/datocms_rest_client).

## DatoCMS

Provides access to the main data access functionality:

* start/1, start/2 - start the DatoCMS Repo process,
* load/0 - download all site data, internallize it and store it in the Repo,
* put/1 - overwrite the data in the Repo with the supplied values,
* all/0 - retrieve the data in the Repo,
* cache/0 - copy all Repo data to a file on disk,
* load_from_cache/0 - the data from the file on disk and store it in the Repo.

Calling `load/0` downloads `site.json` from the DatoCMS API plus all
(paginated) `items.json` files.

## DatoCMS.Repo

### Internalized Data

All data is held in Elixir `Map` structues with atom keys.

A site's data is stored internally as a `keyword list` containing 3 data
structures:

* `:site` - general information about the site;
* `:item_types_by_type` - the structure of each item type, keyed by the
  item type (atom);
* `:items_by_type` - the data, grouped by item type, keyed by the item
  type (atom).

## Data Structures

### Internalized Item

```
{
  id: "12345",
  item_type: :post,
  type: "item",
  attributes: {
    updated_at: "2017-01-01T13:29:49.359Z",
    is_valid: true,
    seo: {
      image: {
        alt: null,
        path: "/11/1111111111-index.jpg",
        size: 9525,
        title: null,
        width: 225,
        format: "jpg",
        height: 224
      },
      title: "SEO Title",
      description: "SEO Description"
    },
    title: {
      it: "Il titolo",
      en: "The Title"
    },
    body: "Ciao",
    category: "12346",
    tags: ["12347"]
  },
  relationships: {
    item_type: {
      data: {
        id: "123",
        type: "item_type"
      }
    },
    last_editor: {
      data: {
        id: "145",
        type: "user"
      }
    }
  }
}
```