Event Scripting

Revision as of 20:53, 20 July 2016

Event Scripting allows users to write scripts that run when certain system events happen. Scriptable events, a.k.a process events, are "fired" when certain parts of the API are called, externally by clients, or internally by other scripts. Events are generated for all services and most resources defined by those services.

Types of Events

service[.resource].verb[.type]

• service is the API name of the service,
• resource is the optional resource path ('/' replaced with '.') either statically defined, or using replacement parameters within {},
• verb is the HTTP verb used in the request
• type is the type of event, see below.

Below are some example base (not including the type section) event names for various service types.

System Resources

The system service generates a lot of events, for example, for the root retrieval of resources...

• system.get

for common resources like admin, app, app_group, custom, cors, roles, services, users...

• system.service.get,
• system.service.post,
• system.service.patch,
• system.service.delete,
• system.service.{id}.get,
• system.service.{id}.patch,
• system.service.{id}.delete,

some others include...

• system.cache.delete,
• system.cache.{service}.delete,
• system.config.get,
• system.config.post,
• system.constant.get,
• system.constant.{type}.get,
• system.environment.get,
• system.event.get,
• system.event.{event_name}.get,
• system.event.{event_name}.post,
• system.event.{event_name}.delete,
• system.service_type.get,
• system.script_type.get,
• system.package.get,
• system.package.post,

Database Services

• db.get,
• db._schema.get,
• db._schema.post,
• db._schema.put,
• db._schema.patch,
• db._schema.{table_name}.get,
• db._schema.{table_name}.post,
• db._schema.{table_name}.put,
• db._schema.{table_name}.patch,
• db._schema.{table_name}.delete,
• db._schema.{table_name}.{field_name}.get,
• db._schema.{table_name}.{field_name}.put,
• db._schema.{table_name}.{field_name}.patch,
• db._schema.{table_name}.{field_name}.delete,
• db._table.get,
• db._table.{table_name}.get,
• db._table.{table_name}.post,
• db._table.{table_name}.put,
• db._table.{table_name}.patch,
• db._table.{table_name}.delete,
• db._table.{table_name}.{id}.get,
• db._table.{table_name}.{id}.put,
• db._table.{table_name}.{id}.patch,
• db._table.{table_name}.{id}.delete,

File Services

• files.get,
• files.post,
• files.patch,
• files.delete,
• files.{folder_path}.get,
• files.{folder_path}.post,
• files.{folder_path}.patch,
• files.{folder_path}.delete,
• files.{file_path}.get,
• files.{file_path}.post,
• files.{file_path}.put,
• files.{file_path}.patch,
• files.{file_path}.delete,

Auth Services

• user.get,
• user.password.post,
• user.profile.get,
• user.profile.post,
• user.register.post,
• user.session.get,
• user.session.post,
• user.session.delete,
• user.custom.get,
• user.custom.post,
• user.custom.patch,
• user.custom.delete,
• user.custom.{id}.get,
• user.custom.{id}.patch,
• user.custom.{id}.delete,

HTTP Services

HTTP Services, by default, fire no events unless there are paths defined in the Open-API/Swagger Specification. In that case, events are generated based on calls matching paths defined. myservice.makes.count.get would be generated for a call to GET http://example.com/api/v2/myservice/makes/count.

SOAP Services

SOAP Services fire events based on the methods defined in the given WSDL file. For example, myservice.call_method.post would be generated for a call to POST http://example.com/api/v2/myservice/call_method.

Scriptable Events

Pre-Process Scripts

Post-Process Scripts

Queued Scripts (Coming Soon)