Creating PHP Client

[zsaraf]

Hello,

I'm working on creating a php client for hypernova. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is what url to post to for hypernova, and how the POST params should be set up. I'm running hypernova.js locally, and have tried POST'ing to http://localhost:3030/ but am getting 404s! When I POST to http://localhost:3030/batch I get this response (below), no matter what i put in the params, and getComponent is not being called.

{ "success": true, "error": null, "results": {} }

I would appreciate a little bit more information on what the POST url is and how POST params should be passed.

[goatslacker]

Sure.

The HOST is whatever you're running Hypernova on localhost usually works if you're testing locally.
PORT is whatever is specified when you setup Hypernova. You can see an example here in the README and there's also this working example.

The URL is /batch and that's just because that's what it was named. It's the only route that is defined for express.

So the full URL would be something like http://localhost:3030/batch

The POST to /batch should look something like:

{
  "NameOfComponent": {
    "name": "NameOfComponent",
    "data": {
      "theseAreProps": true,
      "someOtherProps": ["one", "two", "three"]
    },
  }
}

If "NameOfComponent" exists and getComponent returns it then you should see stuff happening.

Also, I'd be super excited for a php client :)

If you have more questions feel free to surface them here.

[zsaraf]

Thanks a lot!

[zsaraf]

I'd also recommend putting the above info ^^ that you provided me in the client spec (https://github.com/airbnb/hypernova/blob/master/docs/client-spec.md) as it is very important and not directly specified anywhere. People will definitely find that info helpful when creating their own clients :-)

[goatslacker]

SGTM, I'll open a PR.

[abelmokadem]

@zsaraf is there a public repo of the work you have done?

[nickyr]

looks like someone else did one: https://github.com/wayfair/hypernova-php