newspring:rest2ddp

This Meteor package uses the amazing work done by "OK GROW!" to allow apps to publish REST resources directly to the client (hence: rest to ddp).

https://github.com/okgrow/rest2ddp

Installation

meteor add newspring:rest2ddp

Server setup

After the package is installed, there are two methods for setting up publications. You can use one or both:

settings.json method

Add a settings file or add an object to your existing settings file that looks like this:

{
  "rest2ddp": {
    "verbose": true,
    "configs": [
      {
        "publicationName": "thePublication",
        "collectionName": "theCollection",
        "restUrl": "https://sub.domain.com/api/v1/widgets",
        "jsonPath": "$.query.results.channel.item.forecast.*",
        "pollInterval": 5000,
        "headers": {
          "Authorization-Token": "123456789",
          "Other-Header-Key": "Other-Header-Value"
        }
      },
      {
        "collectionName": "otherCollection",
        "restUrl": "http://sub.otherdomain2.com/api/v2/people"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Traditional publish method

Put code like this in a server block:

REST2DDP.publish("thePublication", {
  collectionName: "theCollection",
  restUrl: "https://sub.domain.com/api/v1/widgets",
  jsonPath: "$.query.results.channel.item.forecast.*",
  pollInterval: 5000,
  headers: {
    "Authorization-Token": "123456789",
    "Other-Header-Key": "Other-Header-Value"
  }
});

Client setup

Access the data on the client like this:

theCollection = new Mongo.Collection("theCollection");
Meteor.subscribe("thePublication");
Tracker.autorun(function () {
  console.table(theCollection.find().fetch());
});

otherCollection = new Mongo.Collection("otherCollection");
Meteor.subscribe("otherCollection");
Tracker.autorun(function () {
  console.table(otherCollection.find().fetch());
});