square_connect 0.0.3

A wrapper for the Square Connect APIs. It's intended use is in a flutter application to manage inventory, catalog, customers, labor, and more on the Square platform.

Square Connect Flutter

This project is a wip extending the Square Connect APIs. You can learn more about them here https://developer.squareup.com/docs/api/connect/v2. At the moment, the CatalogAPI is the only one implemented.

Getting Started

First, ensure you've added the dependency to your project

dependencies:
    square-connect: <latest-version>

Initialize

Start by getting an instance of the SquareConnect client

var client = SquareConnect.instance;

Then set two config options:

REQUIRED First, enter your developer token. You can find this at https://developer.squareup.com/apps. (More/better authentication options planned for the future).

client.setAuthToken(token: 'YOUR-TOKEN-HERE');

OPTIONAL Second, you may add a different HttpClient to use. By defauly, the IOClient is used (the object that flutter needs to make http calls). This is useful for testing (you can enter a Mock client) or using BrowserClient if developing for web.

var httpClient = BrowserClient();
client.setAuthToken(client: httpClient);

Usage

Now that you have a SquareConnect client set up, you can access it's methods. The seperate APIs are contained in their own objects for better organization. For example, to access the Catalog API, you can use:

client.catalogApi.methodHere();

Errors

Instead of throwing errors caused by Square's API, methods return a list of errors returned by Square's API. To check if errors were thrown, simply check if the errors property is null.

Example

var response = await client.catalogApi.retrieveCatalogObject(objectId: 'fake-obj-id');
if (response.errors == null) {
  // at least 1 error occured
  response.errors.forEach((error) => print(error.detail));
}

// no errors occured, you can access your payload
var object = response.object;

Pagination

On methods that support it, you can paginate your calls. On some calls, there are hard limits to how many items can be returned (eg. listCatalog() can return 200 objects by default). You can programatically find limits with the getCatalogInfo() method.

If pagination is supported/needed, the response will contain a cursor string returned by Square's API. To retrieve it, you can call response.cursor. If the field is null, then no cursor exists and there are no more items to be returned. If it was not null, you can pass it into another call of the specific method.

Of course you can use this cursor for lazy loading or write a recursive function to get all objects either time. We build the pagination exactly as Square implements it to allow for flexibility.

Example

List<CatalogObject> listOfObjects = [];

var firstResponse = await client.catalogApi.listCatalogObjects();
if (firstResponse.cursor != null) {
  // Max elements for this call, but there are more to return
  listOfObjects.addAll(firstResponse.objects);
  
  var secondResponse = await client.catalogApi.listCatalogObjects(cursor: firstResponse.cursor);
  if (secondResponse.cursor != null) {
    // could go on more, could write function recursivly
    
  } else {
    // All the elements have been returned
    listOfObjects.addAll(secondResponse.objects);
  }
}

Methods Supported (for more info, see API documentation, and Square's documentation here):

API	Method	Description
SquareConnect.catalogApi	listCatalog(CatalogType[] types, String cursor)	Gets all catalog objects, can filter with specifying types list and pagination support.
SquareConnect.catalogApi	retrieveCatalogObject(String objectId, bool includeRelatedObjects)	Gets specified catalog object by id.
SquareConnect.catalogApi	deleteCatalogObject(String objectId)	Deletes secified catalog object by id.
SquareConnect.catalogApi	batchDeleteCatalogObjects({List<String> objectIds})	Batch deletes catalog objects from list of ids.
SquareConnect.catalogApi	getCatalogInfo()	Gets metadata about catalog.