Import a post from Markdown or MDX

import app from '@adonisjs/core/services/app'
import { SiteClient } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-sdk'

const site = await app.container.make(SiteClient)
const blogImportResult = await site.blogPosts().importBlogPost({ markdown: '---\ntitle: "Our spring update"\nexcerpt: "What changed this season."\n---\n\n## What’s new\n\nThe body, in Markdown.\n' })

{
  "_id": "clx8k2m0a0011abcd1234efgh:en:draft",
  "type": "@apostrophecms/blog",
  "title": "Five things we learned this year",
  "slug": "five-things-we-learned-this-year",
  "_url": "https://www.example.com/blog/five-things-we-learned-this-year",
  "published": false
}

import app from '@adonisjs/core/services/app'
import { SiteClient } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-sdk'

const site = await app.container.make(SiteClient)
const blogImportResult = await site.blogPosts().importBlogPost({ markdown: '---\ntitle: "Our spring update"\nexcerpt: "What changed this season."\n---\n\n## What’s new\n\nThe body, in Markdown.\n' })

{
  "_id": "clx8k2m0a0011abcd1234efgh:en:draft",
  "type": "@apostrophecms/blog",
  "title": "Five things we learned this year",
  "slug": "five-things-we-learned-this-year",
  "_url": "https://www.example.com/blog/five-things-we-learned-this-year",
  "published": false
}

In your app

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

Add the controller

app/controllers/import_blog_post_controller.ts

import { inject } from '@adonisjs/core'
import { SiteClient } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-sdk'

@inject()
export default class ImportBlogPostController {
  constructor(protected site: SiteClient) {}

  async handle() {
    return this.site.blogPosts().importBlogPost({ markdown: '---\ntitle: "Our spring update"\nexcerpt: "What changed this season."\n---\n\n## What’s new\n\nThe body, in Markdown.\n' })
  }
}

The other values are the example’s: take yours from the request, a form or your database.

Add the route

start/routes.ts

import router from '@adonisjs/core/services/router'

const ImportBlogPostController = () => import('#controllers/import_blog_post_controller')

router.post('/blog/from-markdown', [ImportBlogPostController])

Put it behind your auth middleware (.use(middleware.auth())): it acts with your key’s access.

Call it

Your own page’s form or script sends POST /blog/from-markdown and gets back its answer as JSON. Test it, below, calls it.

Send JSON, the raw document (text/markdown, at most 5 MB by default), or a multipart upload with the file and its images. Images: featuredImage in the front matter and every image in the body may be an https:// URL (fetched, at most 15 MB by default), a library image’s slug, a filename posted with the file (image, up to 10), or generate: <description> with generateImages (at most 4 per import). Media on an API key: a new image (a URL, a posted file or generate:) needs content:images:write, a new video content:videos:write and content:videos:publish; a library slug needs content:images:read / content:videos:read. The blog scopes don’t cover media, and the refusal names the missing scope. Publishing: publish=true publishes only when the caller may (a key needs content:blog:publish); otherwise the post is saved as a draft. An MDX import is always a draft. Removing an import: delete the post by the draft _id the import answered. On an API key that needs content:blog:delete.

Required parameters

One object, e.g. importBlogPost({ markdown }); leave out the optional fields.

string

required

Required. The whole document: YAML front matter between --- lines, then the Markdown body. title is the one required front matter key; slug, publishedAt, authorName (or authorEmail), category, excerpt, featuredImage (+ featuredImageAlt), seoTitle, seoDescription and splitDepth are optional (the Markdown template, getBlogMarkdownTemplate, names every key). Body headings start at ##: the title is the post’s only <h1>.

Optional parameters

Format | null | undefined

Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Read a raw or JSON body as mdx. One of md, mdx.

boolean | null | undefined

Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. The same as the body’s publish.

boolean | null | undefined

Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. The same as the body’s generateImages.

boolean | null | undefined

Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. The same as the body’s _ai.

Returns

A BlogImportResult. The new post. Read its properties (blogImportResult.id): each says whether the site always sends it. The example answer is the site’s wire JSON: some keys differ from the property names (_id → id, _url → url).

string

Always sent.

string

Always sent.

string

Always sent.

string

Always sent.

boolean

Always sent. False when it was saved as a draft.

string

Sometimes sent: undefined when the site leaves it out. The post’s page.

Errors

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 request is not valid; the message says which part and how to fix it.Retried first: No. Read: errors (field → messages), siteMessage.

401

The API key is missing, malformed, unknown, disabled, expired or archived, or a request its signing mode requires to be signed is not.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.

403

The API key lacks the scope this route needs (the message names it) or is used from outside its allowlist; or, on a route that answers 403 to everyone it refuses, the caller may not use it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.

413

The document or a file is over its size limit (the message names it).Retried first: No. Read: reason, status.

429

The key used up its per-minute limit. Still, after the client’s own waits and retries.Retried first: Yes: the client waits Retry-After (1 s when absent; over 60 s it gives up at once) and retries, up to retries times (2 by default). Read: retryAfter (seconds, or null), siteMessage.

5xx

The site failed (or something in front of it did). Its logs say why.Retried first: No: a write may have landed. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.

no answer

No answer: DNS, a refused connection, TLS, or the timeout (15 s per attempt by default).Retried first: Only when nothing reached the site (neverConnected()); never after a timeout, when it may have landed. 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:blog:write, or content:blog:all, or content:all, or admin:all, or a signed-in user holding the blog:import-markdown permission. Other callers get 403.
Rate limit: the key’s own writes-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 120), and 30 imports and validations a minute per caller: whichever runs out first answers 429 with Retry-After. The client waits and retries for you; you see RateLimited only if that runs out.
Retries: a write is sent again only after a 429 (refused before it acted) or when it never reached the site. After a timeout or a 5xx it may have landed: check before you send it again.
Timeout: the SDK gives this call 615 s on its own (your client’s own timeout when that is 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/blog_posts_import_blog_post.spec.ts, then run your tests:

tests/unit/blog_posts_import_blog_post.spec.ts

import { test } from '@japa/runner'
import app from '@adonisjs/core/services/app'
import { fakeAttract } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-adonis/testing'
import ImportBlogPostController from '#controllers/import_blog_post_controller'

test('blogPosts.importBlogPost', async () => {
  const site = fakeAttract()

  const controller = await app.container.make(ImportBlogPostController)
  await controller.handle()

  site.assertCalled('blogPosts.importBlogPost')
})

Terminal

node ace test

Answer with your own values: fake blogPosts.importBlogPost with factories.BlogImportResult({...}), the fields you give over a valid example.

tests/unit/blog_posts_import_blog_post_answers.spec.ts

import { test } from '@japa/runner'
import { factories, fakeAttract } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-adonis/testing'

test('blogPosts.importBlogPost answers your values', async ({ assert }) => {
  const site = fakeAttract({
    'blogPosts.importBlogPost': factories.BlogImportResult({ id: 'Your value' }),
  })

  const blogImportResult = await site.blogPosts().importBlogPost({ markdown: '---\ntitle: "Our spring update"\nexcerpt: "What changed this season."\n---\n\n## What’s new\n\nThe body, in Markdown.\n' })
  assert.containSubset(blogImportResult, { id: 'Your value' })
})

List a blog post’s locales

site.blogPosts().getBlogLocales()

Get the Markdown template

site.blogPosts().getBlogMarkdownTemplate()

Get the MDX template

site.blogPosts().getBlogMdxTemplate()

List blog posts

site.blogPosts().listBlogs()

Create a blog post

site.blogPosts().createBlog()

Get a blog post

site.blogPosts().getBlog()

POST /@apostrophecms/blog/from-markdown

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

import app from '@adonisjs/core/services/app'
import { SiteClient } from '@fetchski/attract-cms-sdk'

const site = await app.container.make(SiteClient)
const blogImportResult = await site.blogPosts().importBlogPost({ markdown: '---\ntitle: "Our spring update"\nexcerpt: "What changed this season."\n---\n\n## What’s new\n\nThe body, in Markdown.\n' })

{
  "_id": "clx8k2m0a0011abcd1234efgh:en:draft",
  "type": "@apostrophecms/blog",
  "title": "Five things we learned this year",
  "slug": "five-things-we-learned-this-year",
  "_url": "https://www.example.com/blog/five-things-we-learned-this-year",
  "published": false
}

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In your app

Behavior

Test it

List a blog post’s locales

Get the Markdown template

Get the MDX template

List blog posts

Create a blog post

Get a blog post

POST /@apostrophecms/blog/from-markdown

In your app

Behavior

Test it

Related

List a blog post’s locales

Get the Markdown template

Get the MDX template

List blog posts

Create a blog post

Get a blog post

POST /@apostrophecms/blog/from-markdown