#admin-gform

admin-gform is a generic client application to administrate data and invoke services.

live demo

Data administration

admin-gform generates master detail views to browse, create, update and delete entities via restful services. The ui consists of a table for browsing resource documents and a form to edit a single resource. Both table and form are created according to the resource's schema. This schema must be supplied in either json schema or gform schema format.

Service invokation

admin-gform is a swagger client. It actually exceeds the default swagger ui's features by providing a complete form for posting and putting new or changed resources.

Limitations:

• does not support file upload

Installation

to install and run the build app use:

git clone https://github.com/stemey/gform-admin
bower install
grunt build
grunt server dist
open browser at localhost:3333

to run the dev app use:

grunt server
open browser at localhost:3333

Configuration

The configuration contains the default swagger and gform services to connect to. It is a json file located at /src/app/services.json:

{
    "services": [
        {
            "type": "app/service/BaucisCrudService",
            "name": "blog (crud)",
            "url": "http://localhost:3333/api/gform"

        },
        {
            "type": "app/service/SwaggerMetaService",
            "name": "swagger example",
            "url": "http://localhost/source/gform-admin-new/src/app/wordnik/api"

        }
 ]
}

A service has a name displayed in the menu, a url of the service's api and a type. The type defines how to interpret the api - as swagger or gform api.

Gform-Rest-Api

The schemata to create the generic front end is provided through rest services. It works similar to the swagger api, The Api consists of two calls:

1. Listing of available resources

The main service call returns general meta data of all resources. A resource meta data consists of a name and urls to the schema, the resource and optionally the collection. These urls must be absolute or relative to the provided basePath or the url of the listing itself.

{
  "basePath": "http://localhost:3333/api/",
  "resources": [
    {
      "name": "vegetable"
      "schemaUrl": "./gform/vegetables",
      "resourceUrl": "./vegetables/",
      "collectionUrl": "./vegetables/",
    }
  ]
}

2. The schemata

All referenced schema may reference external schemas relative to the basePath as well.

Libraries and examples

Live example

gform-admin provides access to swagger example application and crud operations on BlogPost and User data in lcoalstorage.

Mongoose

A complete implementation of the gform rest api for mongoose is available here. An example application is available here