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  • Farbod Zamani Boroujeni <zamani.woop@elan-ev.de>

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README

This PHP composer package is meant to provide a unified easy-to-use Opencast RESTful API library. It has been designed to make most of commonly used REST Endpoints available to the developers of thirt-party applications mainly LMSes such as Stud.IP, Moodle and ILIAS. Please refer to the Change Log for more info.

Note

As of version 1.2.0 the main class name has been changed from OpenCast to OpenCast. Please refer to Upgrade Log for more info.

Requisitions

PHP Version 7.2.5 or above as well as cURL are required. Additionaly, the requirements of guzzlehttp/guzzle must be fullfiled.

Installation

composer require elan-ev/opencast-api

Basic Usage

There are 2 approaches to use the Opencast REST Endpoints from this library:

  1. The first one is via the generic OpencastApi\Opencast which contains all available Opencast endpoints (which are capable with the API version defined in the config). The advantage of using this approach is a better control over all available endpoints. (Recommended)

NOTE: When using this library against a distributed Opencast setup with admin and presentation split, you can pass another set of configuration as the second parameter when instantiating the OpencastApi\Opencast. Initially, the presentation node only takes care of search endpoint.

$config = [
      'url' => 'https://develop.opencast.org/',       // The API URL of the Opencast instance. (required)
      'username' => 'admin',                          // The API username. (required)
      'password' => 'opencast',                       // The API password. (required)
      'timeout' => 0,                                 // The API timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely). (optional)
      'connect_timeout' => 0,                         // The API connection timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely) (optional)
      'version' => null,                              // The API Version. (Default null). (optional)
      'handler' => null,                               // The callable Handler or HandlerStack. (Default null). (optional)
      'features' => null,                              // A set of additional features [e.g. lucene search]. (Default null). (optional)
      'guzzle' => null,                                // Additional Guzzle Request Options. These options can overwrite some default options (Default null). (optional)
];

$engageConfig = [
      'url' => 'https://develop.opencast.org/',       // The API URL of the Opencast instance. (required)
      'username' => 'admin',                          // The API username. (required)
      'password' => 'opencast',                       // The API password. (required)
      'timeout' => 0,                                 // The API timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely). (optional)
      'connect_timeout' => 0,                         // The API connection timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely) (optional)
      'version' => null,                              // The API version. (Default null). (optional)
      'handler' => null,                               // The callable Handler or HandlerStack. (Default null). (optional)
      'features' => null,                              // A set of additional features [e.g. lucene search]. (Default null). (optional)
      'guzzle' => null,                                // Additional Guzzle Request Options. These options can overwrite some default options (Default null). (optional)
];

use OpencastApi\Opencast;

// In case of a distributed Opencast setup
$opencastDualApi = new Opencast($config, $engageConfig);
// Or simply
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

// Accessing Event Endpoints to get all events
$events = [];
$eventsResponse = $opencastApi->eventsApi->getAll();
if ($eventsResponse['code'] == 200) {
      $events = $eventsResponse['body'];
}

// Accessing Series Endpoints to get all series
$series = [];
$seriesResponse = $opencastApi->seriesApi->getAll();
if ($seriesResponse['code'] == 200) {
      $series = $seriesResponse['body'];
}

// ...
  1. The second approach is to instantiate each REST endpoint class, which are located under OpencastApi\Rest\ namespace, when needed, but the down side of this is that it needs a OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient instance as its parameter. The advantage of this approach might be the methods' definitions in the IDE.
$config = [
      'url' => 'https://develop.opencast.org/',       // The API URL of the Opencast instance. (required)
      'username' => 'admin',                          // The API username. (required)
      'password' => 'opencast',                       // The API password. (required)
      'timeout' => 0,                                 // The API timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely). (optional)
      'connect_timeout' => 0,                         // The API connection timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely) (optional)
      'version' => null,                              // The API version. (Default null). (optional)
      'handler' => null,                               // The callable Handler or HandlerStack. (Default null). (optional)
      'features' => null,                              // A set of additional features [e.g. lucene search]. (Default null). (optional)
      'guzzle' => null,                                // Additional Guzzle Request Options. These options can overwrite some default options (Default null). (optional)
];


use OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient;
use OpencastApi\Rest\OcEventsApi;
use OpencastApi\Rest\OcSeriesApi;

// Get a client object.
$opencastClient = new OcRestClient($config);

// To get events.
$opencastEventsApi = new OcEventsApi($opencastClient);
$events = [];
$eventsResponse = $opencastEventsApi->getAll();
if ($eventsResponse['code'] == 200) {
      $events = $eventsResponse['body'];
}

// To get series.
$opencastSeriesApi = new OcSeriesApi($opencastClient);
$series = [];
$seriesResponse = $opencastSeriesApi->getAll();
if ($seriesResponse['body'] == 200) {
      $series = $seriesResponse['body'];
}

// ...

Configuration

The configuration is type of Array and has to be defined as follows:

$config = [
      'url' => 'https://develop.opencast.org/',       // The API URL of the Opencast instance. (required)
      'username' => 'admin',                          // The API username. (required)
      'password' => 'opencast',                       // The API password. (required)
      'timeout' => 0,                                 // The API timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely). (optional)
      'connect_timeout' => 0,                         // The API connection timeout. In seconds (default 0 to wait indefinitely) (optional)
      'version' => null,                              // The API version. (Default null). (optional)
      'handler' => null,                               // The callable Handler or HandlerStack. (Default null). (optional)
      'features' => null,                              // A set of additional features [e.g. lucene search]. (Default null). (optional)
      'guzzle' => null,                                // Additional Guzzle Request Options. These options can overwrite some default options (Default null). (optional)
];

UPDATE (v1.9.0): a new config parameter called "guzzle" is introduced, which is intended to pass additional guzzle request options to the call. These options will take precedence over the default configs like uri, auth and timeouts, but some other options like query, fome_params and json will be overwritten by the function if present. UPDATE (v1.7.0): the new items called features is added to the configuration array. As of now, it is meant to hanlde the toggle behavior to enable/disable Lucene search endpoint simply by adding 'features' => ['lucene' => true]. Just keep in mind that this endpoint id off by default and won't work in Opencast 16 onwards. Therefore, developer must be very careful to use this feature and to toggle it!

NOTE: the configuration for presentation (engage node) responsible for search has to follow the same definition as normal config. But in case any parameter is missing, the value will be taken from the main config param.

Extra: Dynamically loading the ingest endpoint class into Opencast instance.

As of v1.3 it is possible to enable (Default) or disable the ingest endpoint to be loaded into OpencastApi\Opencast by passing a boolean value as the last argument of the class as follows:

use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$opencastApiWithIngest = new Opencast($config, $engageConfig);
$opencastApiWithoutIngest = new Opencast($config, $engageConfig, false);
// ...

Response

The return result of each call is an Array containing the following information: From v1.4 the 5th response parameter 'origin' is available!

[
      'code' => 200,                            // The status code of the response
      'body' => '',                             // The result of the response. It can be type of string, array or objec ('' || [] || {})
      'reason' => 'OK',                         // The reason/message of response
      'location' => '',                         // The location header of the response when available,
      'origin' => [                             // The information about the origin of the request (ADDED in v1.4)
            'base' => 'https://example.com',    // Request base url address
            'path' => '/api/path',              // Request url path
            'method' => 'GET',                  // Request method
            'params' => [                       // Request parameters
                'query_params' => [],
                'form_params' => [],
                'form_multipart_params' => [],
                'json' => [],
                'body' => null,
            ]
      ]
]

Filters and Sorts

Filters and Sorts must be defined as associative Array, as follows:

// for example:

$filters = [
      'title' => 'The title name',
      'creator' => 'opencast admin'
];

$sorts = [
      'title' => 'DESC',
      'startDate' => 'ASC'
];

NOTE: Sometimes a filter can occur multiple times for example in Series API /get, filters like subject and identifier can occur multiple times. Therefore, an Array should be passed as filter value like following:

// for example:

$filters = [
      'identifier' => [
            '{first ID}',  '{second ID}'
      ],
      'subject' => [
            '{first Subject}',  '{second Subject}'
      ]
];

runWithRoles([])

Sometimes it is needed to perform the request with a disposable header of X-RUN-WITH-ROLES containing some roles (e.g. user ids) in order for Opencast to assume that those users has special access right.
It is commonly used to get data with onlyWithWriteAccess parameter for example to perform getAll in OcSeriesApi and grab those series that only specified users have access to!
In order to perform such requests it is needed to call the runWithRoles method before calling the desired function in a class:
NOTE: This method accepts an Array defining the roles to check against!

// With Opencast generic class
use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

// Role
$roles = ['ROLE_ADMIN'];
$seriesResponse = $opencastApi->seriesApi->runWithRoles($roles)->getAll(['onlyWithWriteAccess' => true]);

// Or direct class call
$opencastClient = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient($config);
$ocSeriesApi = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcSeriesApi($opencastClient);
// Role
$roles = ['ROLE_ADMIN'];
$seriesResponse = $ocSeriesApi->runWithRoles($roles)->getAll(['onlyWithWriteAccess' => true]);

NOTE: Roles can be either an Array including each role, or a comma separated string!

runAsUser($user)

Sometimes it is needed to perform the request with a disposable header of X-RUN-AS-USER containing the user id in order for Opencast to assume that this user has access right. This feature is added since v1.4. NOTE: This method accepts an String defining the user id to check against!

// With Opencast generic class
use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

// Role
$user = 'lms-admin';
$seriesResponse = $opencastApi->seriesApi->runAsUser($user)->getAll(['onlyWithWriteAccess' => true]);

// Or direct class call
$opencastClient = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient($config);
$ocSeriesApi = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcSeriesApi($opencastClient);
// Role
$user = 'lms-admin';
$seriesResponse = $ocSeriesApi->runAsUser($user)->getAll(['onlyWithWriteAccess' => true]);

noHeader()

In order to perform a request call to an endpoint without any request headers/options, you can use this method before calling the desired function in an endpoint class: NOTE: This method accepts nothing (void).

// With Opencast generic class
use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

$baseResponse = $opencastApi->baseApi->noHeader()->get();

// Or direct class call
$opencastClient = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient($config);
$ocBaseApi = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcBaseApi($opencastClient);
$baseResponse = $ocBaseApi->noHeader()->get();

setRequestTimeout($timeout = 0)

In order to perform a request call with a different timeout value other than the one set in the configuration, you can use this method before calling the desired function in an endpoint class: NOTE: This method accepts integer defining a single use timeout in second.

// With Opencast generic class
use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

$baseResponse = $opencastApi->baseApi->setRequestTimeout(10)->get();

// Or direct class call
$opencastClient = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient($config);
$ocBaseApi = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcBaseApi($opencastClient);
$baseResponse = $ocBaseApi->setRequestTimeout(10)->get();

setRequestConnectionTimeout($connectionTimeout = 0)

In order to perform a request call with a different connection timeout value other than the one set in the configuration, you can use this method before calling the desired function in an endpoint class: NOTE: This method accepts integer defining a single use connection timeout in second.

// With Opencast generic class
use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

$baseResponse = $opencastApi->baseApi->setRequestConnectionTimeout(10)->get();

// Or direct class call
$opencastClient = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcRestClient($config);
$ocBaseApi = \OpencastApi\Rest\OcBaseApi($opencastClient);
$baseResponse = $ocBaseApi->setRequestConnectionTimeout(10)->get();

Available Opencast REST Service Endpoint

Utility Class

Starting from version v1.9.0, a new utility class has been introduced to provide additional functionality, making it easier to integrate and consume this library's output within applications.

How to use

To use the utility class, initialize it directly via its namespace and start calling its functions:

use OpencastApi\Opencast;
use OpencastApi\Util\OcUtils;
...
$config = [...];
$opencastApi = new Opencast($config);

$params = [...];
$response = $opencastApi->ocSearch->getEpisodes($params);

// Use `findValueByKey` from the Utility class to extract the mediapackage from the response,
// regardless of the response's structure.
$mediapackage = OcUtils::findValueByKey($response['body'], 'mediapackage');
...

Mocking Responses

In order to conduct proper testing, a mocking mechanism is provided.

How to use

Step 1: Responses Array

As in the first step it is necessary to have all the responses in an array form, which has to have the following structure:

$responsesArray = [
      "/api/events" => [ // Request Path
            "GET": [ // METHOD
                  [
                        "body" => "", //Response body (Default "")
                        "status": 200, // Status code (Default 200)
                        "headers": [], // Response headers (Default [])
                        "version": "", // Protocol version (Default null)
                        "reason": "", // Reason phrase (when empty a default will be used based on the status code) (Default null)
                        "params": []  // The optional params to pass to the call (Default [])
                  ]
            ],
            "POST": [ // METHOD
                  [
                        "body" => "", //Response body (Default "")
                        "status": 200, // Status code (Default 200)
                        "headers": [], // Response headers (Default [])
                        "version": "", // Protocol version (Default null)
                        "reason": "", // Reason phrase (when empty a default will be used based on the status code) (Default null)
                        "params": []  // The optional params to pass to the call (Default [])
                  ],
                  [...] // Multiple response data object to have multiple calls to the same path and same method. Please see the NOTE below.
            ],
            "PUT": [
                  [...]
            ],
            "DELETE": [
                  [...]
            ]
      ],
];

NOTE: In order to apply multiple calls to the same path, a unique parameter called unique_request_identifier in params array must be provided, for example you want to update a series's acl twice with the same path but different acl values: (The value of the unique identifier must be something within the body of the request)

$responsesArray = [
      "/api/series/{series id}/acl": [
            "PUT": [ // PUT METHOD on the same path
                  [
                        "body" => "", //Response body (Default "")
                        "status": 200, // Status code (Default 200)
                        "params": [  // The optional params to pass to the call (Default [])
                              "unique_request_identifier": "acl=[]"
                        ],
                  ],
                  [
                        "body" => "[{\"allow\":true,\"role\":\"ROLE_ANONYMOUS\",\"action\":\"read\"}]", //Response body (Default "")
                        "status": 200, // Status code (Default 200)
                        "params": [  // The optional params to pass to the call (Default [])
                              "unique_request_identifier": "ROLE_ANONYMOUS"
                        ],
                  ]
            ]
      ],
];

Step 2: Creating a new MockHandler instance and passing to the configuration array.

In order to create a new MockHandler instance, you should use \OpencastApi\Mock\OcMockHanlder::getHandlerStackWithPath and pass that instance into the configuration array with handler key, like so:

$mockResponses = [...]; // As described above.
$mockHandler = \OpencastApi\Mock\OcMockHanlder::getHandlerStackWithPath($mockResponses);

$config = [/*the config*/];
$config['handler'] = $mockHandler;
$opencast = new \OpencastApi\Opencast($config);

Extra: Log requests uri

if you want to have a list of request uri, you can pass a file path variable as the second argument into the \OpencastApi\Mock\OcMockHanlder::getHandlerStackWithPath to write/append every uri into that file, like so;

$filePath = '{A valid writeable file path}';
$mockResponses = [...]; // As described above.
$mockHandler = \OpencastApi\Mock\OcMockHanlder::getHandlerStackWithPath($mockResponses, $filePath);

$config = [/*the config*/];
$config['handler'] = $mockHandler;
$opencast = new \OpencastApi\Opencast($config);

Naming convention

Classes:

Apart from 'Opencast' class, all other classes under OpencastApi\Rest\ namespace start with Oc followed by the name and the endpoint category. For example:

  • OcEventsApi contains 3 parts including Oc + Endpoint Name (Events) + Endpoint Category (Api)
  • OcServices contains 2 parts including Oc + Endpoint Name/Category (Services)

Opencast class properties:

The naming convention to access the endpoint subclasses from OpencastApi\Opencast as its properties, includes the name of the class without Oc in camelCase format. For example:

use OpencastApi\Opencast;
$config = [/*the config*/];
$opencast = new Opencast($config);

// Accessing OcEventsApi would be like: (without Oc and in camelCase format)
$ocEventsApi = $opencast->eventsApi;

References