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In your app

A controller answers a route on your app: it calls getAuthorLocales() and returns the answer.

Add the controller

app/controllers/get_author_locales_controller.ts

Add the route

start/routes.ts

Call it

Terminal
With node ace serve running, it prints its answer as JSON.

Find the id

id is the document’s _id, from a list. Ask the list for only the fields you need: each row is a document’s id and those fields.
AdonisJS
Pass row.id as id. Drafts: list with { aposMode: 'draft' } to get the draft’s id (Find an id).

Required parameters

One object, e.g. getAuthorLocales({ id }); leave out the optional fields.
string
required
Required. The document’s _id: a full id names its own locale and mode (the draft’s …:en:draft, the published one’s …:en:published; no aposMode needed), a bare aposDocId takes the request’s (aposLocale, aposMode).
A DocumentLocales. The locales the document exists in. Read its properties (documentLocales.results): each says whether the site always sends it.
readonly Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>[]
Always sent. One entry per locale the document exists in.
Nothing to catch: the SDK retries what is safe, and throws the rest as the classes below. Your exception handler turns them into your app’s own answers, once for every call (see Map SDK errors to responses); catch only what you want to react to here.
400
The site refused what was sent: errors lists each field’s problem, siteMessage the first.Retried first: No. Read: errors (field → messages), siteMessage.
401
The API key is missing or refused (malformed, revoked, expired), or a signature its signing mode needs is missing or stale.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.
403
The key may not do this: a scope it lacks, or an address outside its allowlist. siteMessage names it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.
404
Nothing matches, or the caller may not see it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.
500
The site failed. Its logs say why.Retried first: No (only a 502, 503 or 504 is retried). Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.
no answer
No answer: DNS, a refused connection, TLS, or the timeout (15 s per attempt by default).Retried first: Yes, after 0.5 s then 1 s. Read: reason, neverConnected.
not sent
The client refused to send it (e.g. a path segment of ..); the site never saw it.Retried first: No. Read: reason (what to change).
any other
Any other status, or a success whose JSON doesn’t match this SDK version’s types (update the SDK).Retried first: No. Read: reason, status.
setup
sites.forSite('acme') named a slug config/attract.ts doesn’t list (with the keys in the database: no row in attract_api_keys).Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: message, slug.
setup
The site’s entry is wrong: a malformed baseUrl or key, a key filed under another slug, or no default site. node ace attract:check names the fix.Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: message (what to fix).

Behavior

  • Access: an API key with content:authors:read (or a master above it: content:authors:all, content:all, admin:all) reads the published documents; drafts (a draft _id) need content:authors:write (or a master above it). A signed-in person reads as far as their own permissions allow, and anyone else reads the published documents’ public fields.
  • Rate limit: the key’s own reads-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 600); over it, 429 with Retry-After. The client waits and retries for you; you see RateLimited only if that runs out.
  • Retries: a read is safe to repeat: the client retries it on no answer, a 502/503/504 and a 429.
  • Timeout: 15 s per attempt by default; raise timeout (milliseconds) in config/attract.ts for longer.

Test it

It calls the controller above with the SDK faked: fakeAttract() puts the fake in the container for this one test, and it answers every call with a valid example, so nothing leaves your machine and no key is read. Save it as tests/unit/authors_get_author_locales.spec.ts, then run your tests:
tests/unit/authors_get_author_locales.spec.ts
Terminal

List authors

site.authors().listAuthors()

Create an author

site.authors().createAuthor()

Get an author

site.authors().getAuthor()

Replace an author

site.authors().replaceAuthor()

Delete an author

site.authors().deleteAuthor()

Update an author

site.authors().updateAuthor()

GET /author/{_id}/locales

The endpoint this calls, in the API reference: the HTTP request and answer, and every rule the site checks.