ZCApp

Introduction

Zoho Creator CRUD API node driver connects to app scope and then APIs like create,update,delete and view records can be invoked in method chaining approach. All APIs returns promise.

Getting Started

• npm install zcapp

CRUD functions

• Create Record API
• Update Record API
• View Record API
• Delete Record API

Response Structure

All response structures are common

{
	actualresponse:'// holds actual response sent by creator',
	data:'null if status failed otherwise holds proper parsed response',
	status:"success or failed"
}

Example

Create Record API

var ZCapp = require('zcapp');
var app = new ZCapp({
	appName:'appLinkName',
	ownername:'zc_ownername',
	authtoken:process.env.ZCTOKEN
})

var formdata = {
	title:"Test data",
	description:"description",
	task_type:"feat"
	

}

//Create Record API
app.form('formLinkName').add(formdata)
	.then((response) => {
		/* sample response
			{
			    "actualresponse": {
			        "formname": [
			            "formLinkName",
			            {
			                "operation": [
			                    "add",
			                    {
			                        "values": {
			                            "description": "description",
			                            "ID": 1946659000002034343,
			                            "title": "Test data",
			                            "task_type": "feat"
			                        },
			                        "status": "Success"
			                    }
			                ]
			            }
			        ]
			    },
			    "data": {
			        "description": "description",
			        "ID": 1946659000002034343,
			        "title": "Test data",
			        "task_type": "feat"
			    },
			    "status": "success"
			}

		*/
		
	
	})
	.catch(e =>{
		console.log('CATCH ',e)
	})

Update Record API

//Update Record API
var criteria ={
	task_type:"feat",
	title:{
		op:"=="
		value:"test"
	}

}

app.form('formLinkName').update(formdata,criteria)
	.then((response) =>{
		/* sample response
			"actualresponse": {
		        "formname": [
		            "formLinkName",
		            {
		                "operation": [
		                    "update",
		                    {
		                        "criteria": "task_type==\"feat\"",
		                        "newvalues": [
		                            {
		                                "description": "Test",
		                                "title": "Test Task",
		                                "task_type": "feat"
		                            }
		                        ],
		                        "status": "Success"
		                    }
		                ]
		            }
		        ]
		    },
		    "data": {
		        "updatedvalues": [
		            {
		                "description": "Test",
		                "title": "Test Task",
		                "task_type": "feat"
		            }
		        ],
		        "criteria": "task_type==\"feat\""
		    },
		    "status": "success"
		*/
	})

View Record API

//View Record API
var criteria ={
	task_type:"feat",
	title:{
		op:"=="
		value:"test"
	}

}
// params criteria,startingIndex and limit are optional
app.view('formLinkName','viewLinkName').find(criteria,startingIndex,limit)
	.then((response) =>{
		/* sample response
		{
			"actualresponse": {
		
		        "formLinkName": [
		            {
		                "description": "Test",
		                "ID": 1946659000002032000,
		                "title": "Test Task",
		                "task_type": "feat"
		            }
		       	]
		    },
		    "data": [{
		        "description": "Test",
		        "ID": 1946659000002032000,
		        "title": "Test Task",
		        "task_type": "feat"
		    }],
		    "status": "success",
		    "recordCount": 1
		}

		*/
	})
// instead of array it returns an object in data key
app.view('formLinkName','viewLinkName').findOne(criteria)
	.then((response) =>{
		/* sample response
		{
			"actualresponse": {
		
		        "tasks": [
		            {
		                "description": "Test",
		                "ID": 1946659000002032000,
		                "title": "Test Task",
		                "task_type": "feat"
		            }
		       	]
		    },
		    "data": {
		        "description": "Test",
		        "ID": 1946659000002032000,
		        "title": "Test Task",
		        "task_type": "feat"
		    },
		    "status": "success",
		    "recordCount": 1
		}

		*/
	})

Delete Record API

//Delete Record API
var delete_criteria = {
	task_type:"feat"
}

app.form('formLinkName').delete(delete_criteria)
	.then((response) =>{
		/* sample response
			{
				"actualresponse": {
			        "formname": [
			            "tasks",
			            {
			                "operation": [
			                    "delete",
			                    {
			                        "criteria": "task_type==\"feat\"",
			                        "status": "Success"
			                    }
			                ]
			            }
			        ]
			    },
			    "data": {
			        "criteria": "task_type==\"feat\"",
			        "status": "Success"
			    },
			    "status": "success"
			}
		*/

	})

Exception Handling

Exceptions are handled using catch followed by then functions, refere bluebird promise for more details. Here is sample code for catching exceptions in APIs

app.form('formLinkName').delete(delete_criteria)
	.then((response) =>{
		console.log('response',response)
	})
	.catch((err) =>{
		console.log('error',err)
	})