ViSense API tools

Introduction

This set of tools can be used to facilitate the integration configuration/data API of a ViSense system. It comprises of the following parts:

• Authentication module,
• WebSocket connection manager class,
• Configuration API ajax call adapter,
• Convenience class for retrieving basic system information.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license.

Version information

This library runs a major version number identical to the version number of the API it is compatible with. I.e. visense-tools v1.x and v2.x are to be used for ViSense v1.x and v2.x devices, respectively.

Command-line utilities

A set of command-line tools in the bin/ directory makes use of ViSense tools easy.

visense-authentication

Use visense-authentication to acquire/free a session token.

  Usage: visense-authentication [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help                     output usage information
    -V, --version                  output the version number
    --ip <ip>                      IP-address
    --port <port>                  Port number (default: 80)
    --command <signIn|signOut>     Authentication command to be executed.
    --username <username>          Username (mandatory for command signIn)
    --password <password>          Password (mandatory for command signIn)
    --sessionToken <sessionToken>  Session token (mandatory for command signOut)

For example:

 $ visense-authentication --ip '192.168.0.100' --command 'signIn' --username 'admin' --password 'MyPassword'

 5e23e335-3689-47e8-9b58-f547bc8e84b0

 $ visense-authentication --ip '192.168.0.100' --command 'signOut' --clientToken '5e23e335-3689-47e8-9b58-f547bc8e84b0'

visense-systeminfo

Use visense-systeminfo to list some basic information of a ViSense system.

  Usage: visense-systeminfo [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help             output usage information
    -V, --version          output the version number
    --ip <ip>              IP-address
    --port <port>          Port number (default: 80)
    --username <username>  Username
    --password <password>  Password

For example:

 $ visense-systeminfo --ip '192.168.0.100' --username 'admin' --password 'MyPassword'

 ViSense system information:
 ---------------------------
 ID                : 192.168.0.100
 Product name      : ViSense CrowdDynamics
 Service tag       : D34DB33F
 Connection status : Video connection established.

ToDo

• Add example code for each utility class.
• Add unit tests for the check-utils.
• Add support for RFC-1123 host names in socket addresses.
• Improve error handling and propagation.
• Parsing of JSON formatted errors.
• Move static socket-addres-related tests from class tests to check-utils tests.
• Add generic library functions for WebSocket message / data parsing.
• Change all string-type errors to native 'Error' types.