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In your app

A controller answers a route on your app: it calls localizeVideos() and returns the job’s id.

Add the controller

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

Add the route

start/routes.ts
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 /video/localize and gets back the job it started (jobId). Test it, below, calls it.
Answers at once with the job’s id.

Required parameters

One object, e.g. localizeVideos({ ids }); leave out the optional fields.
readonly string[]
required
Required. The documents’ _ids: a full id names its own locale and mode (a draft’s …:en:draft, a published …:en:published; no aposMode needed), a bare aposDocId takes the request’s (aposLocale, aposMode).
readonly string[]
required
Required. The locales to copy them into (unknown locale names are skipped).
boolean | null | undefined
Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Overwrite a copy that already exists in a target locale (default false: an existing copy is left as it is).
Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Related document types to copy along (default none).
Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. Copy only the related documents, not the listed ones (default false).
BatchRequestMessages | null | undefined
Optional. Leave it out (or pass null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. The notification texts the CMS shows signed-in users while the job runs ({{ type }} and {{ count }} are filled in). Optional.
PendingJob: the job runs on the site, jobId names it. wait() needs the management client (the job route is management only): on this client it throws SiteConfigurationError. The job started.
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: 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:videos:write (or a master above it: content:videos:all, content:all, admin:all). A signed-in person may call it as far as their own permissions allow; anyone else gets 403.
  • Rate limit: the key’s own writes-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 120); over it, 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: 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/videos_localize_videos.spec.ts, then run your tests:
tests/unit/videos_localize_videos.spec.ts
Terminal
Answer with your own values: fake videos.localizeVideos with factories.JobStarted({...}), the fields you give over a valid example.
tests/unit/videos_localize_videos_answers.spec.ts

List a video’s locales

site.videos().getVideoLocales()

List videos

site.videos().listVideos()

Create a video

site.videos().createVideo()

Get a video

site.videos().getVideo()

Replace a video

site.videos().replaceVideo()

Delete a video

site.videos().deleteVideo()

POST /video/localize

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