Making a sample API call

node.js example

Simple example for making one API call (get customer list).

Get API key

Get API key and set them to environment variables GILLIE_PUBLICKEY and GILLIE_PRIVATEKEY (or modify code to set those directly in code)

Install required packages

This sample uses only request-library for making http requests. Copy following definition to package.json or run npm install –save request

{
    "name": "gillie-test",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
      "start": "node ./bin/www"
    },
    "dependencies": {
      "request": "^2.88.0"
    }
  }

Copy sample code

Copy following code to sample.js:

/**
 */
let request = require("request");

// Get API Keys from environment/db/or from some 
// seecure place

let PRIVATEKEY=process.env.GILLIE_PRIVATEKEY;
let PUBLICKEY=process.env.GILLIE_PUBLICKEY;

let crypto = require('crypto');
// Test api's are in https://test.gillie.io
// Production api's are in https://gillie.io
let HOST = "https://test.gillie.io";
// Unix time in seconds
let apisalt = Math.round((new Date().getTime() / 1000))
            .toString(); 
let apihash = crypto.createHash('sha256')
    .update( PRIVATEKEY + PUBLICKEY +  apisalt )
    .digest('hex');

let url = HOST + "/api/customers?apikey=" + PUBLICKEY + 
                 "&apihash=" + apihash + 
                 "&apisalt=" + apisalt;
// Make a http(s) request with your favourite 
// Node library
// Here we use request library
console.log("Calling url",url);

request(url, function (error, response, body) {
  // Print the error if one occurred
  console.log('error:', error); 
  // Statuscode
  console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
  // Response body
  console.log('response body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage.
});

Execute code

node sample.js

You should see a 200 return and list of area’s customers (and an empty list, if there is no customers)

You should see something like this in console output:

Calling url http://test.gillie.io/api/customers?apikey=d65ec6ae-4484-4ad0-b92d-89409be03ec5&apihash=138e9720d11b50fde05a2c6d077e2a43a5441c5602ba3aeb11b3d9a3e7661b30&apisalt=1536841255
error: null
statusCode: 200
response body: [{"_id":"5b977bd60e0297ce7736b94f","first_name":"Leila","last_name":"Ankeroinen","username":"leilayksinainen@test.com","street_address1":"Syrjätie 99","phone":"22222","sort_index":1,"picture":"/assets/img/person_default.png"},{"_id":"5b977bd60e029764c136b94d","username":"pirkkovanhus@test.com","first_name":"Pirkko","last_name":"Vanhus","street_address1":"Matkatie 1","phone":"111111","sort_index":1,"picture":"/assets/img/person_default.png"},]