@aws-sdk/client-geo-places

Description

AWS SDK for JavaScript GeoPlaces Client for Node.js, Browser and React Native.

The Places API enables powerful location search and geocoding capabilities for your applications, offering global coverage with rich, detailed information. Key features include:

• Forward and reverse geocoding for addresses and coordinates

• Comprehensive place searches with detailed information, including:

  • Business names and addresses

  • Contact information

  • Hours of operation

  • POI (Points of Interest) categories

  • Food types for restaurants

  • Chain affiliation for relevant businesses

• Global data coverage with a wide range of POI categories

• Regular data updates to ensure accuracy and relevance

Installing

To install this package, simply type add or install @aws-sdk/client-geo-places
using your favorite package manager:
- npm install @aws-sdk/client-geo-places
- yarn add @aws-sdk/client-geo-places
- pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-geo-places

Getting Started

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The AWS SDK is modulized by clients and commands.
To send a request, you only need to import the GeoPlacesClient and
the commands you need, for example GetPlaceCommand:

``js
// ES5 example
const { GeoPlacesClient, GetPlaceCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-geo-places");
`

`ts
// ES6+ example
import { GeoPlacesClient, GetPlaceCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-geo-places";
`

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To send a request, you:

- Initiate client with configuration (e.g. credentials, region).
- Initiate command with input parameters.
- Call send operation on client with command object as input.
- If you are using a custom http handler, you may call destroy() to close open connections.

`js
// a client can be shared by different commands.
const client = new GeoPlacesClient({ region: "REGION" });

const params = { /* input parameters / };
const command = new GetPlaceCommand(params);
`

#### Async/await

We recommend using await
operator to wait for the promise returned by send operation as follows:

`js
// async/await.
try {
const data = await client.send(command);
// process data.
} catch (error) {
// error handling.
} finally {
// finally.
}
`

Async-await is clean, concise, intuitive, easy to debug and has better error handling
as compared to using Promise chains or callbacks.

#### Promises

You can also use Promise chaining
to execute send operation.

`js
client.send(command).then(
(data) => {
// process data.
},
(error) => {
// error handling.
}
);
`

Promises can also be called using .catch() and .finally() as follows:

`js
client
.send(command)
.then((data) => {
// process data.
})
.catch((error) => {
// error handling.
})
.finally(() => {
// finally.
});
`

#### Callbacks

We do not recommend using callbacks because of callback hell,
but they are supported by the send operation.

`js
// callbacks.
client.send(command, (err, data) => {
// process err and data.
});
`

#### v2 compatible style

The client can also send requests using v2 compatible style.
However, it results in a bigger bundle size and may be dropped in next major version. More details in the blog post
on modular packages in AWS SDK for JavaScript

`ts
import * as AWS from "@aws-sdk/client-geo-places";
const client = new AWS.GeoPlaces({ region: "REGION" });

// async/await.
try {
const data = await client.getPlace(params);
// process data.
} catch (error) {
// error handling.
}

// Promises.
client
.getPlace(params)
.then((data) => {
// process data.
})
.catch((error) => {
// error handling.
});

// callbacks.
client.getPlace(params, (err, data) => {
// process err and data.
});
`

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When the service returns an exception, the error will include the exception information,
as well as response metadata (e.g. request id).

`js
try {
const data = await client.send(command);
// process data.
} catch (error) {
const { requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId } = error.$metadata;
console.log({ requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId });
/**
* The keys within exceptions are also parsed.
* You can access them by specifying exception names:
* if (error.name === 'SomeServiceException') {
* const value = error.specialKeyInException;
* }
*/
}
`

Getting Help

Please use these community resources for getting help.
We use the GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests, but have limited bandwidth to address them.

- Visit Developer Guide
or API Reference.
- Check out the blog posts tagged with aws-sdk-js
on AWS Developer Blog.
- Ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it with aws-sdk-js.
- Join the AWS JavaScript community on gitter.
- If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue.

To test your universal JavaScript code in Node.js, browser and react-native environments,
visit our code samples repo.

Contributing

This client code is generated automatically. Any modifications will be overwritten the next time the @aws-sdk/client-geo-places` package is updated.
To contribute to client you can check our generate clients scripts.

License

This SDK is distributed under the
Apache License, Version 2.0,
see LICENSE for more information.

Client Commands (Operations List)

Autocomplete

Command API Reference / Input / Output

Geocode

Command API Reference / Input / Output

GetPlace

Command API Reference / Input / Output

ReverseGeocode

Command API Reference / Input / Output

SearchNearby

Command API Reference / Input / Output

SearchText

Command API Reference / Input / Output

Suggest

Command API Reference / Input / Output