NodeJS / TypeScript Readium-2 "opds" components

NodeJS implementation (written in TypeScript) of OPDS functionality for the Readium2 architecture ( https://github.com/readium/architecture/ ).


Build status

 

Changelog

Prerequisites

1) https://nodejs.org NodeJS >= 8, NPM >= 5 (check with command line node --version and npm --version)
2) OPTIONAL: https://yarnpkg.com Yarn >= 1.0 (check with command line yarn --version)

GitHub repository

https://github.com/readium/r2-opds-js

There is no github.io site for this project (no gh-pages branch).

NPM package

https://www.npmjs.com/package/r2-opds-js

Command line install:

npm install r2-opds-js
OR
yarn add r2-opds-js

...or manually add in your package.json:
``json
"dependencies": {
"r2-opds-js": "latest"
}
`

The JavaScript code distributed in the NPM package is usable as-is (no transpilation required), as it is automatically-generated from the TypeScript source.

Several ECMAScript flavours are provided out-of-the-box: ES5, ES6-2015, ES7-2016, ES8-2017:

https://unpkg.com/r2-opds-js/dist/

(alternatively, GitHub mirror with semantic-versioning release tags: https://github.com/edrlab/r2-opds-js-dist/tree/develop/dist/ )

The JavaScript code is not bundled, and it uses require() statement for imports (NodeJS style).

More information about NodeJS compatibility:

http://node.green

Note that web-browser Javascript is currently not supported (only NodeJS runtimes).

The type definitions (aka "typings") are included as .d.ts files in ./node_modules/r2-opds-js/dist/*, so this package can be used directly in a TypeScript project.

Dependencies

https://david-dm.org/readium/r2-opds-js

A package-lock.json is provided (modern NPM replacement for npm-shrinkwrap.json).

A yarn.lock file is currently not provided at the root of the source tree.

Continuous Integration

TODO (unit tests?)
https://travis-ci.org/readium/r2-opds-js

Badge: 

Version(s), Git revision(s)

NPM package (latest published):

https://unpkg.com/r2-opds-js/dist/gitrev.json

Alternatively, GitHub mirror with semantic-versioning release tags:

https://raw.githack.com/edrlab/r2-opds-js-dist/develop/dist/gitrev.json

Developer quick start

Command line steps (NPM, but similar with YARN):

1) cd r2-opds-js
2) git status (please ensure there are no local changes, especially in package-lock.json and the dependency versions in package.json)
3) rm -rf node_modules (to start from a clean slate)
4) npm install, or alternatively npm ci (both commands initialize the node_modules tree of package dependencies, based on the strict package-lock.json definition)
5) npm run build:all (invoke the main build script: clean, lint, compile)
6) ls dist (that's the build output which gets published as NPM package)

Documentation

$3

Due to the "factory" registration pattern in the TA-JSON library dependency (and its corresponding XML fork/adaptation),
the functions initGlobalConverters_GENERIC() and initGlobalConverters_OPDS() must be called before invoking the actual OPDS1/2 parsers.

https://github.com/readium/r2-opds-js/blob/develop/src/opds/init-globals.ts

`typescript
// npm install r2-opds-js
// "@opds" is a dist path alias, for example EcmaScript6/ES2015 'node_modules/r2-opds-js/dist/es6-es2015/src/opds/'
import { initGlobalConverters_GENERIC, initGlobalConverters_OPDS } from "@opds/init-globals";

initGlobalConverters_GENERIC();
initGlobalConverters_OPDS();
`

$3

The XML (Atom) markup of an OPDS1 "feed" (or "entry") can be loaded/parsed into an in-memory data model.

https://github.com/readium/r2-opds-js/tree/develop/src/opds/opds1

`typescript
// npm install xmldom
import * as xmldom from "xmldom";

// npm install r2-utils-js
// "@utils" is a dist path alias, for example EcmaScript6/ES2015 'node_modules/r2-utils-js/dist/es6-es2015/src/_utils/'
import { XML } from "@utils/xml-js-mapper";

// npm install r2-opds-js
// "@opds" is a dist path alias, for example EcmaScript6/ES2015 'node_modules/r2-opds-js/dist/es6-es2015/src/opds/'
import { OPDS } from "@opds/opds1/opds";
import { Entry } from "@opds/opds1/opds-entry";

const xmlDom = new xmldom.DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlStr);
if (!xmlDom || !xmlDom.documentElement) {
return;
}
const isEntry = xmlDom.documentElement.localName === "entry";
if (isEntry) {
let opds1Entry = XML.deserialize(xmlDom, Entry);
// ...
} else {
let opds1Feed = XML.deserialize(xmlDom, OPDS);
// ...
}
`

$3

The JSON serialization of an OPDS2 "feed" (or "publication") can be loaded/parsed into an in-memory data model.

https://github.com/readium/r2-opds-js/tree/develop/src/opds/opds2

`typescript
import { TaJsonDeserialize, TaJsonSerialize } from "@r2-lcp-js/serializable";

// npm install r2-opds-js
// "@opds" is a dist path alias, for example EcmaScript6/ES2015 'node_modules/r2-opds-js/dist/es6-es2015/src/opds/'
import { OPDSFeed } from "@opds/opds2/opds2";
import { OPDSPublication } from "@opds/opds2/opds2-publication";

// feed
var opds2Feed: OPDSFeed;
const opds2Feed_JSON = TaJsonSerialize(opds2Feed);
// ...and the reverse:
opds2Feed = TaJsonDeserialize(opds2Feed_JSON, OPDSFeed);

// publication
var opds2Publication: OPDSPublication;
const opds2Publication_JSON = TaJsonSerialize(opds2Publication);
// ...and the reverse:
opds2Publication = TaJsonDeserialize(opds2Publication_JSON, OPDSPublication);
`

$3

An OPDS1 "feed" (or "entry") can be converted into an OPDS2 representation.

https://github.com/readium/r2-opds-js/blob/develop/src/opds/converter.ts

`typescript
// npm install xmldom
import * as xmldom from "xmldom";

// npm install r2-utils-js
// "@utils" is a dist path alias, for example EcmaScript6/ES2015 'node_modules/r2-utils-js/dist/es6-es2015/src/_utils/'
import { XML } from "@utils/xml-js-mapper";

// npm install r2-opds-js
// "@opds" is a dist path alias, for example EcmaScript6/ES2015 'node_modules/r2-opds-js/dist/es6-es2015/src/opds/'
import { OPDS } from "@opds/opds1/opds";
import { Entry } from "@opds/opds1/opds-entry";
import { OPDSFeed } from "@opds/opds2/opds2";
import { OPDSPublication } from "@opds/opds2/opds2-publication";
import { convertOpds1ToOpds2, convertOpds1ToOpds2_EntryToPublication } from "@opds/converter";

const xmlDom = new xmldom.DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlStr);
if (!xmlDom || !xmlDom.documentElement) {
return;
}
const isEntry = xmlDom.documentElement.localName === "entry";
if (isEntry) {
let opds1Entry = XML.deserialize(xmlDom, Entry);

let opds2Publication: OPDSPublication = convertOpds1ToOpds2_EntryToPublication(opds1Entry);
// ...
} else {
let opds1Feed = XML.deserialize(xmlDom, OPDS);

var opds2Feed: OPDSFeed = convertOpds1ToOpds2(opds1Feed);
// ...
}
``