Dynamics Web Api

This is a third party interface for using microsoft dynamics 365 using ntlm authentication.

this package is mainly using httpntlm module to send http request.

Installation

use bellow command to add dynapi to your dependencies:

npm install dynapi --save

Simple Example

You can use the module like the example below:

// Import the required modules
const { Credential, QueryBuilder } = require("rabama-dynapi"");

// Specify credentials to login to dynamics 365 server
const credential = new Credential({
  url: "http://example.com/organization",
  username: "testUsername",
  password: "TestPassword",
  domain: "testDomain",
  version: "8.2",        //Optional
  workstation: "app"     //Optional
});

// Send a query to fetch name of 3 accounts as a result. 
const result = new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .get("accounts")
  .top(3)
  .select("name")
  .send();

API

Credential:

Create a new credential instance to authenticate through dynamics 365 server then pass it into the QueryBuilder constructor.

const credential = new Credential({
  url: "http://example.com/organization",
  username: "testUsername",
  password: "TestPassword",
  domain: "testDomain",
  version: "8.2",        //Optional
  workstation: "app"    //Optional})

QueryBuilder:

There are 5 types of methods that you can send to the dynamics 365 as Web API Request.

.create(entitySetName)

Create new account with the name of test. You can set any attribute value in the set method.

new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .create("accounts")
  .set({
    name: "test"
  })
  .send();

.update(entitySetName, entityId)

Update an account with the specified id and change its name to test. You can set any attribute value in the set method.

new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .update("accounts", recordId)
  .set({
    name: "test"
  })
  .send();

.delete(entitySetName, entityId)

Delete an account with the specified Id.

new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .delete("accounts", recordId)
  .send();

.read(entitySetName[, recordId])

Retrieve any account with the specified id. You can use select method while retrieving a single record to get those attributes only.

new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .read("accounts", recordId)
  .select("name", "createdon")
  .send();

Or just retrieve all accounts as you desire. You can use multiple kind of filters while retrieving multiple records.

new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .read("accounts")
  .select("name", "createdon")
  .top(10)
  .filter("name eq test")
  .send();

It is also possible to append any pathname to the url to get more information about a field(for example a lookup field) by passing pathname into send method parameter.

// The result here would be about the user who created this account.
new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .read("accounts", recordId)
  .select("name", "createdon", "createdby")
  .send("/createdby");

.execute(actionName, method [, entitySetName, id])

You can execute any kind of action including globals.

new QueryBuilder(credential)
  .execute("WhoAmI", "get")
  .send();

Debugging

You can include dynapi in the process.env.DEBUG to see the sent requests for debugging purposes.