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# API
# WooCommerce API Client
A simple interface for interacting with a WooCommerce installation.
An isometric API client for interacting with WooCommerce installations. Here are the current and planned
features:
## Installation
``bash
npm install @woocommerce/api --save-dev
``
- [x] TypeScript Definitions
- [x] Axios API Client with support for OAuth & basic auth
- [x] Repositories to simplify interaction with basic data types
- [ ] Service classes for common activities such as changing settings
## Usage
Consumers of this package should rely on an instance of `ModelRegistry` to access the factories.
Here is an example of how to initialize and use the package to generate a simple product:
```javascript
import {
AdapterTypes,
initializeUsingBasicAuth,
ModelRegistry,
registerSimpleProduct,
SimpleProduct
} from 'e2e/api';
// The ModelRegistry instance is where all of the factories and adapters are stored in an easy-to-access way.
const modelRegistry = new ModelRegistry()
// Call the register functions to add a kind of factory to the model registry.
// This will also add any adapters we've created for the factory, allowing it
// to be created on the server.
registerSimpleProduct( modelRegistry );
// Before you can use the included API adapter you need to initialize it using one of the utility methods.
// If you do not initialize the API adapters they will not be able to make requests to the API.
// Note that these utility functions only set up adapters that have been registered already
// and so further calls to `registeryXXX` functions will have adapters that aren't ready.
initializeUsingBasicAuth( modelRegistry, 'https://test.test/wp-json', 'admin', 'password' );
initializeUsingOAuth( modelRegistry, 'https://test.test/wp-json', 'consumer_key', 'consumer_secret' );
// In order to actually create the models on the server, each registered factory must have an adapter set.
// You can do this on a per-factory basis using
modelRegistry.changeFactoryAdapter( SimpleProduct, AdapterTypes.API );
// You can do this to all factories registered using
modelRegistry.changeAllFactoryAdapters( AdapterTypes.API );
// Once all of the initialization has been taken care of you can create models!
// Any fields that are not defined will be filled out by random data.
const product = await modelRegistry.getFactory( SimpleProduct ).create( { name: 'Test Product' } );
// You can now access the ID of the created model using `product.id`!
// You can also create models in bulk!
const poducts = await modelRegistry.getFactory( SimpleProduct ).createList( 5 );
// You now have an array of products to work with!
```bash
npm install @woocommerce/api --save-dev
```
## Custom Models
Depending on what you're intending to get out of the API client there are a few different ways of using it.
## Custom Adapters
### REST API
The simplest way to use the client is directly:
```javascript
import { HTTPClientFactory } from '@woocommerce/api';
// You can create an API client using the client factory with pre-configured middleware for convenience.
let httpClient = HTTPClientFactory.withBasicAuth(
// The base URL of your REST API.
'https://example.com/wp-json/',
// The username for your WordPress user.
'username',
// The password for your WordPress user.
'password',
);
// You can also create an API client configured for requests using OAuth.
httpClient = HTTPClientFactory.withOAuth(
// The base URL of your REST API.
'https://example.com/wp-json/',
// The OAuth API Key's consumer secret.
'consumer_secret',
// The OAuth API Key's consumer password.
'consumer_pasword',
);
// You can then use the client to make API requests.
httpClient.get( '/wc/v3/products' ).then( ( response ) => {
// Access the status code from the response.
response.statusCode;
// Access the headers from the response.
response.headers;
// Access the data from the response, in this case, the products.
response.data;
} );
```
### Repositories
As a convenience utility we've created repositories for core data types that can simplify interacting with the API.
These repositories provide CRUD methods for ease-of-use:
```javascript
import { SimpleProduct } from '@woocommerce/api';
// Prepare the HTTP client that will be consumed by the repository.
// This is necessary so that it can make requests to the REST API.
const httpClient = HTTPClientFactory.withBasicAuth( 'https://example.com/wp-json/','username','password' );
const repository = SimpleProduct.restRepository( httpClient );
// The repository can now be used to create models.
const product = repository.create( { name: 'Simple Product', regularPrice: '9.99' } );
// The response will be one of the models with structured properties and TypeScript support.
product.id;
```