SharePoint REST Framework Updates

This post will go over the latest changes to the gd-sprest project. This framework is used to develop against the SharePoint 2013/Online REST api. It’s available at github and npm.

NodeJS

I’m happy to say that the library now works with NodeJS, where you can import modules and not have to add a reference to the definition file for intellisense. The target version for NodeJS integration is v1.2, but I recommend to get the latest for all bug fixes and utilities.

TypeScript Code Example

This code example gives an example of querying a list for a specified item.

import {List, Types} from "gd-sprest";

    // Method to get the item Information
    private getItemInfo(itemId) {
        // Return a promise
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            // See if we already queried for this item
            if(this._items[itemId]) {
                // Resolve the request
                resolve(this._items[itemId]);
            } else {
                // Get the list
                (new List(this._listName))
                    // Get the item
                    .Items(itemId)
                    // Execute the request
                    .execute((item) => {
                        // Save a reference to the item
                        this._items[itemId] = item;

                        // Resolve the promise
                        resolve(item);
                    });
            }
        });
    }

Helper Functions

The helper functions have been split out to App and JSLink. As we add other helper methods they can easily be organized here.

App Helper

Functions related to copying files and creating folder structures from the app web to the host web. Cleanup methods for removing files and folders are available too.

JSLink Helper

I recently wrote a blog post on JSLinks which has an overview of the JSLink helper methods.