waaseyaa/northcloud

North Cloud client, content sync, and search provider for Waaseyaa applications.

What this package gives you

• NorthCloudClient — HTTP client for the North Cloud REST API (search, people, band office, dictionary, crawl jobs).
• NorthCloudCache — SQLite-backed response cache.
• NorthCloudSearchProvider — Implements Waaseyaa\Search\SearchProviderInterface so NC becomes a drop-in search backend.
• NcSyncService + NcSyncWorker + northcloud:sync command — Generic content ingestion orchestrator that pulls NC search hits and persists them as Waaseyaa entities.
• NcHitToEntityMapperInterface — The extension seam. Implement one of these per target entity type in your app; the package handles everything else.

Installation

composer require waaseyaa/northcloud

Publish the config (optional):

./bin/waaseyaa config:publish northcloud

Set env vars:

NORTHCLOUD_BASE_URL=https://api.northcloud.one
NORTHCLOUD_API_TOKEN=              # only needed for authenticated endpoints

Usage: hooking up content sync in your app

Implement one mapper per entity type you want to populate from North Cloud:

use Waaseyaa\NorthCloud\Sync\NcHitToEntityMapperInterface;

final class NcHitToKnowledgeItemMapper implements NcHitToEntityMapperInterface
{
    public function entityType(): string
    {
        return 'knowledge_item';
    }

    public function dedupField(): string
    {
        return 'source_url';
    }

    public function supports(array $hit): bool
    {
        $topics = $hit['topics'] ?? [];
        return is_array($topics) && in_array('indigenous', $topics, true);
    }

    public function map(array $hit): array
    {
        return [
            'title' => (string) ($hit['title'] ?? ''),
            'body' => (string) ($hit['snippet'] ?? $hit['body'] ?? ''),
            'source_url' => (string) ($hit['url'] ?? ''),
            // ...app-specific fields
        ];
    }
}

Register the mapper in your AppServiceProvider:

$mapperRegistry = $container->get(MapperRegistry::class);
$mapperRegistry->register(new NcHitToKnowledgeItemMapper(/* deps */));

Run a sync:

./bin/waaseyaa northcloud:sync --limit=20
./bin/waaseyaa northcloud:sync --dry-run
./bin/waaseyaa northcloud:sync --since=2026-01-01

Architecture

  NC API
    ↓
NorthCloudClient  ──►  NorthCloudCache (SQLite)
    ↓
NcSyncService  ──►  MapperRegistry  ──►  your NcHitToEntityMapperInterface
    ↓
EntityTypeManager  ──►  persisted entities

One NC hit may produce multiple entities — every registered mapper whose supports() returns true gets to create one.

Status

v0.1.0-alpha — API surface not yet stable. See waaseyaa/framework#TBD for rollout plan.