LearnositySDK 0.8.0

Learnosity SDK - ASP.NET / C#

This repository contains full .NET solution.

LearnositySDK library helps you to generate request JSON for following services:

• assess
• author
• data
• items
• questions
• reports
• schemas

In addition data and schemas services use Request/Remote class to perform HTTP Request, and fetch needed data. Data service can also use Request/DataApi wrapper making pagination requests easier.

Contents

Solution consists in two projects:

• LearnositySDK
• LearnositySDKUnitTests

LearnositySDK

This project is a class library built in compatibility with .NET Standard 2.0

This project uses only one external dependency: Newtonsoft.Json library (http://james.newtonking.com/json)

Installation

To install Learnosity SDK .NET NuGet package, run the following command in the Package Manager Console

PM> Install-Package LearnositySDK

Usage

Init class

The Request/Init class is used to generate the necessary security and request data (in the correct format) to integrate with any of the Learnosity API services.

The Init constructor takes up to 5 arguments:

• [string] service type
• [string/JsonObject] security details (no secret)
• [string] secret
• [string/JsonObject] request details (optional)
• [string] action (optional)

// prepare all the params
string service = "items";

JsonObject security = new JsonObject();
security.set("consumer_key", "yis0TYCu7U9V4o7M");
security.set("domain", "localhost");
security.set("user_id", "12345678");

string secret = "74c5fd430cf1242a527f6223aebd42d30464be22";

JsonObject request = new JsonObject();
request.set("activity_template_id", "demo-activity-1");
request.set("activity_id", "my-demo-activity");
request.set("name", "Demo Activity");
request.set("course_id", "demo_yis0TYCu7U9V4o7M");
request.set("session_id", Uuid.generate());
request.set("user_id", "demo_student");

// Instantiate Init class
Init init = new Init(service, security, secret, request);

// Call the generate() method to retrieve a JavaScript object
string JavaScriptObject = init.generate();

On JavaScript side:

// Pass the object to the initialisation of any Learnosity API
LearnosityApp.init(JavaScriptObject);

Arguments

service<br> A string representing the Learnosity service (API) you want to integrate with. Valid options are:

• assess
• author
• data
• items
• questions
• reports

security<br> An associative array^ that includes your consumer_key but does not include your secret. The SDK sets defaults for you, but valid options are:

• consumer_key
• domain (optional)
• timestamp (optional)
• user_id (optional)

^Note – the SDK accepts JSON strings or JsonObject objects.

secret<br> Your secret key, as provided by Learnosity.

request<br> An optional associative array^ of data relevant to the API being used. This will be any data minus the security details that you would normally use to initialise an API.

^Note – the SDK accepts JSON strings or JsonObject objects.

action<br> An optional string used only if integrating with the Data API. Valid options are:

• get
• set
• update
• delete

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Remote class

The Remote class is used to make server side, cross domain requests. Think of it as a HTTPWebRequest or WebClient wrapper.

You'll call either get() or post() with the following arguments:

• [string] URL
• [string/Dictionary<string, string>] Data payload
• [JsonObject] Options

string url = "http://schemas.learnosity.com/stable/questions/templates";
Remote remote = new Remote();
remote.get(url);
string body = remote.getBody();

Arguments

URL<br> A string URL, including schema and path. Eg:

https://schemas.learnosity.com/stable/questions/templates

Data<br> An optional associative array^ of data to be sent as a payload. For GET it will be a URL encoded query string.

^Note – the SDK accepts query strings or Dictionary<string, string> objects.

Options<br> An optional associative array^ of request parameters. Valid options are: int timeout (seconds), JsonObject headers, string encoding

^Note – the SDK accepts JsonObject objects.

Remote methods

The following methods are available after making a get() or post().

getBody()<br> Returns the body of the response payload.

getError()<br> Returns an array that includes the error code and message (if an error was thrown)

getHeader()<br> Currently only returns the content_type header of the response.

getSize()<br> Returns the size of the response payload in bytes.

getStatusCode()<br> Returns the HTTP status code of the response.

DataApi class

This class serves as a wrapper for data API calls. It has two public methods:

request()<br>

Allows you to perform single request. For now data API calls are limited to 1000 records, which means, that subsequent calls can be required.

You can pass data.meta.next token in your requestPacket to load next set of records. See also requestRecursive method.

Check Examples.Data.DataApi() for an example.

requestRecursive()<br>

Allows you to perform subsequent requests recursively, returning the chunk of data after each recursion.

Chunks are passed into callback function defined by following delegate:

public delegate bool ProcessData(string data);

Check Examples.Data.DataApiRecursive() for an example.

JsonObject class

Serves as an simple implementation of PHP associative arrays. It provides many overloaded get() and set() methods to allow you create your flexible objects.

Constructor accepts only one parameter: bool isArray = false. It's required to set this flag to true if your object should behave like an array.

Example with both - objects and arrays:

JsonObject session_ids = new JsonObject(true);
session_ids.set("AC023456-2C73-44DC-82DA28894FCBC3BF");

JsonObject report = new JsonObject();
report.set("id", "report-1");
report.set("type", "sessions-summary");
report.set("user_id", "brianmoser");
report.set("session_ids", session_ids);

JsonObject reports = new JsonObject(true);
reports.set(report);

JsonObject request = new JsonObject();
request.set("reports", reports);

JsonObjectFactory class

If you already have your data in JSON string, simply run fromString() method, to convert it to JsonObject instance:

string json = "[\"a\", \"b\"]";
JsonObject jo = JsonObjectFactory.fromString(json);

Version

Version v0.1.0 - June 2014

Examples

Each service has it's own example - you can find them in Examples folder of LearnositySDK project. To run them simply invoke static Simple method.