Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Update nextcloud package docs #1147

Merged
merged 3 commits into from
Nov 16, 2023
Merged
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
53 changes: 40 additions & 13 deletions packages/nextcloud/README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
# nextcloud

A Nextcloud client written in Dart.
A Nextcloud API client written in Dart.

This client will become the replacement for https://github.com/provokateurin/dart-nextcloud at some point ([See](https://github.com/nextcloud/neon/issues/1)).


## Installing
## Installation

In the future this code will be available at https://pub.dev/packages/nextcloud, but for now you have to include it via git in your pubspec.yaml:
```yaml
Expand All @@ -25,15 +22,45 @@ dependency_overrides:
```
You can either remove the `ref` or use a commit hash. It's not recommended to remove it, because then the version will be updated very often.

## Development
## Usage

### Authentication

Except for WebDAV all client code is generated using OpenAPI specs which can be found in the `../../specs/` folder.
Templates for these OpenAPI specs are generated from the Nextcloud codebase to make development easier.
There are multiple ways to authenticate.
First there is HTTP Basic auth which works with the normal user credentials (e-mail and other identifiers also work):
```dart
final client = NextcloudClient(
Uri.parse('http://localhost'),
loginName: 'admin',
password: 'admin',
);
```

Secondly there is Http Bearer auth which works with app passwords:
```dart
final client = NextcloudClient(
Uri.parse('http://localhost'),
loginName: 'admin',
appPassword: 'xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxxx',
);
```

To generate such a template take a look at `../../tool/generate-nextcloud.sh`.
After you have generated a template, you need to fill it out. Some endpoints can or have to be discarded.
Not all endpoints work with just HTTP Basic auth, so it is advised to use app passwords obtained either directly in the Web UI by the user or using the [login flow](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/client_apis/LoginFlow/index.html#login-flow-v2).
Some endpoints do not need any authentication at all or provide extended information when the request is optionally authenticated.

Then you start writing tests for the endpoints you added.
To easily inspect the responses for an endpoint, just set the `type` to `string` inside the `schema` blocks of the spec and let the output be printed in the tests.
### Endpoints

It is not guaranteed that an API request will work unless the app is installed and enabled on the server (and has a supported version).

To get an easier overview of the available endpoints you can browse the [server OpenAPI documentation](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/_static/openapi.html), but be aware that the package might not be in sync with it.
Alternatively you can also go to https://pub.dev/documentation/nextcloud/latest (once the package has been republished at https://pub.dev/packages/nextcloud).

The endpoints are grouped by app and most apps also group their endpoints again.
They can be accessed using getters on the `NextcloudClient`.

For an example checkout the [example](./example/example.dart).
provokateurin marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved

## Development

Sometimes you will have to look at the source code of Nextcloud, because the API is not always intuitive. Make sure to check if there is any API documentation that can help you.
Except for WebDAV all client code is generated using OpenAPI specifications which can be found in the `lib/src/api/` folder.
These OpenAPI specifications are [generated](https://github.com/nextcloud/openapi-extractor) from the PHP source code.
13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions packages/nextcloud/example/example.dart
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
import 'package:nextcloud/nextcloud.dart';
import 'package:nextcloud/provisioning_api.dart';

Future<void> main() async {
final client = NextcloudClient(
Uri.parse('http://localhost'),
loginName: 'admin',
password: 'admin',
);

final response = await client.provisioningApi.users.getCurrentUser();
print(response.body.ocs.data.id); // Will print `admin`
}