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A JavaScript library for the Cascade CMS API. You can find more information about their API here: https://www.hannonhill.com/cascadecms/latest/developing-in-cascade/rest-api/index.html#Operations

Available for Cascade CMS v8.1.1 and later.

You can find an openAPI representation of the Cascade library here:

https://kuklaph.github.io/cascade-cms-api/swagger-ui/

Cascade provides in tandem with the REST API docs listed above, a WSDL operations page. In order to access this you will need to use your organization as a subdomain followed by this url:

cascadecms.com/ws/services/AssetOperationService?wsdl

Example: isSandActuallySandy.cascadecms.com/ws/services/AssetOperationService?wsdl

This can be used either via NodeJS or Google Apps Script.

Either download/Copy the files and extract the zip or use npm npm i cascade-cms-api or npm ci cascade-cms-api depending on what you prefer.

In your project file import the Cascade API.

import { CascadeAPI, Types } from "cascade-cms-api";

In order to use this library within a Google Apps Script (GAS) project you will need to copy the main.js and paste the contents as a new .gs file in your project.

To use the library you will need to instantiate the CascadeAPI function and pass it a config object with your apiKey and a Cascade CMS API URL with your custom domain:

{ apiKey: "", url: "" }

const cascadeAPI = CascadeAPI({
  apiKey: "",
  url: "https://isSandActuallySandy.cascadecms.com/api/v1/",
});

The apiKey is generated in your Cascade dashboard. The url is yourOrg.cascadecms.com/api/v1/ (this is the current version as of 1/9/2023).

If you are using this in Google Apps Script the async/await pattern is not used/required. GAS does not follow this pattern.

// Apps Script
// const cascadeAPI = CascadeAPI_({apiKey: "", url: ""})

// Nodejs
const cascadeAPI = CascadeAPI({
  apiKey: "",
  url: "https://isSandActuallySandy.cascadecms.com/api/v1/",
});

const readFile = async () => {
  const results = await cascadeAPI.read({
    identifier: {
      type: "page",
      id: "d3631e59ac1easd2434bd70be3fbfe8148abc",
    },
  });
  //...
};

Types are optional. You can add type definitions which may be helpful depending on the situation:

// Opt1 - inline
const read = await cascadeAPI.read({
  identifier: {
    type: "page", // inline gives you intellisense
    id: "d3631e59ac1easd2434bd70be3fbfe8148abc",
    //...
  },
});

// Opt2 - add external type
/**
 * @type {Types.EntityTypeString}
 */
const type = "page";
const read = await cascadeAPI.read({
  identifier: {
    type, // uses type from above and you get intellisense within the variable above
    id: "d3631e59ac1easd2434bd70be3fbfe8148abc",
    //...
  },
});

A built in retry is offered for the Nodejs version. The default allotted timeout time is 30 seconds. You can adjust whether or not to use a retry (the default is true) per request method as an optional parameter. If you want to update the timeout time, you can pass in an optional timeout parameter when initiating CascadeAPI.

The Nodejs version also comes with an option to use fetch rather than axios in case you want to use this in something like a Chrome Extension. You would just need to swap the commented lines in main.js.