API Access Example

$(document).ready(function () {
    // create tracker item via api demo
    function createTrackerItem()
    {
        // testing locally
        const authUrl = "http://localhost/tiki/tiki/api/oauth/access_token",
            authData = {
                grant_type: "client_credentials",
                client_id: "04a5d956587fc882853d8e9f2a3c46cf",
                client_secret: "d8e06397c589c4e11b957fa59e5afda6861a1547c949c4201c298fa18eb92b61",
            }
        let access_token = ""

        // get authorisation token for our api_access user
        $.ajax({
            url: authUrl,
            data: authData,
            async: false,   // naughty? but need to wait for the token, probably better done on page load once
            dataType: "json",
        }).done(function (data) {
            access_token = data.access_token
        }).fail(function () {
            alert("error");
        })

        if (! access_token) {
            return
        }

        // now to create the tracker item - see http://localhost/tiki/tiki/api/ for more
        const url = `http://localhost/tiki/tiki/api/trackers/${trackerId}/items`
        // need the date in unix format (seconds since 1970)
        const now = parseInt((new Date()).getTime() / 1000);
        // the demo tracker id
        const trackerId = 35
        const payLoad = {
            "fields": {
                "newsTitle": "a test title",
                "newsURL": "https://tiki.org",
                "newsSummary": "a test news summary",
                "newsDate": now,
            }
        }
        
        // now run the request
        $.ajax({
            url: url,
            data: payLoad,
            dataType: "json",
            method: "post",
            headers: {
                Authorization: `Bearer ${access_token}`
            },
        }).done(function (data) {
            //debugger;
            alert(`Item ${data.itemId} was created`)
        }).fail(function () {
            debugger
            alert("error");
        })

    }

    if (confirm("do it?")) {
        createTrackerItem();
    }
});