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TypeScript SDK middleware

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Add functionality to the request object in the TypeScript SDK.

You can add middleware when creating the TypeScript SDK client. You can add multiple middlewares by using a chain of middleware builder methods.

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withClientCredentialsFlow(authMiddlewareOptions)
  .withHttpMiddleware(httpMiddlewareOptions)
  .withLoggerMiddleware()
  // Chain additional middleware here
  .build();

HttpMiddleware

Handles sending the HTTP request to the Composable Commerce API.

type HttpMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: string;
  credentialsMode?: 'omit' | 'same-origin' | 'include';
  includeResponseHeaders?: boolean;
  includeOriginalRequest?: boolean;
  includeRequestInErrorResponse?: boolean;
  maskSensitiveHeaderData?: boolean;
  timeout?: number;
  enableRetry?: boolean;
  retryConfig?: {
    maxRetries?: number;
    retryDelay?: number;
    backoff?: boolean;
    maxDelay?: number;
    retryOnAbort?: boolean;
    retryCodes?: Array<number | string>;
  };
  httpClient: Function<fetch | axiosInstance>;
  httpClientOptions?: object; // will be passed as a second argument to your httpClient function for configuration
  getAbortController?: () => AbortController;
};

// using a proxy agent
import { HttpsProxyAgent } from 'https-proxy-agent';
const agent = new HttpsProxyAgent('http://8.8.8.8:8888');

const options: HttpMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: 'https://api.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com',
  includeResponseHeaders: true,
  maskSensitiveHeaderData: true,
  includeOriginalRequest: false,
  includeRequestInErrorResponse: false,
  enableRetry: true,
  retryConfig: {
    maxRetries: 3,
    retryDelay: 200,
    backoff: false,
    retryCodes: [503],
  },
  httpClient: fetch,
  httpClientOptions: { agent } // this will be passed to fetch ()
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withHttpMiddleware(options)
  // ...
  .build();

AuthMiddleware

Handles generating, authenticating, and refreshing auth tokens used when making authenticated requests to the Composable Commerce API.

The SDK manages the auth token lifecycle, and there is usually no need to interact or access the authentication token. Expired tokens are automatically discarded and new tokens are generated (or refreshed if using withRefreshTokenFlow) for new requests.
You can use any one of the following authentication flows. The main difference in the authentication flows is the options parameter, which you can pass to each middleware.

withClientCredentialsFlow

Handles authentication for the client credentials flow of the Composable Commerce API.
type AuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: string
  projectKey: string
  credentials: {
    clientId: string
    clientSecret: string
  }
  scopes?: Array<string>
  oauthUri?: string
  httpClient: Function
  httpClientOptions?: object
  tokenCache?: TokenCache
}

const options: AuthMiddlewareOptions {
  host: 'https://auth.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com',
  projectKey: 'test-project-key',
  credentials: {
    clientId: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_SECRET
  },
  scopes: [`manage_project:${projectKey}`],
  httpClient: fetch
}


const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withClientCredentialsFlow(options)
  // ...
  .build()

withPasswordFlow

Handles authentication for the password flow of the Composable Commerce API.
type PasswordAuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: string;
  projectKey: string;
  credentials: {
    clientId: string;
    clientSecret: string;
    user: {
      username: string;
      password: string;
    };
  };
  scopes?: Array<string>;
  tokenCache?: TokenCache;
  oauthUri?: string;
  httpClient: Function<fetch | axiosInstance>;
  httpClientOptions?: object;
};

const options: PasswordAuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: 'https://auth.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com',
  projectKey: 'test-project-key',
  credentials: {
    clientId: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_SECRET,
    user: {
      username: process.env.USERNAME,
      password: process.env.PASSWORD,
    },
  },
  scopes: [`manage_project:${projectKey}`],
  httpClient: fetch,
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withPasswordFlow(options)
  // ...
  .build();

withAnonymousSessionFlow

Handles authentication for the anonymous session flow of the Composable Commerce API.
type AnonymousAuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: string;
  projectKey: string;
  credentials: {
    clientId: string;
    clientSecret: string;
    anonymousId?: string;
  };
  scopes?: Array<string>;
  oauthUri?: string;
  httpClient: Function<fetch | axiosInstance>;
  httpClientOptions?: object
  tokenCache?: TokenCache;
};

const options: AnonymousAuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: 'https://auth.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com',
  projectKey: 'test-project-key',
  credentials: {
    clientId: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_SECRET,
    anonymousId: process.env.CTP_ANONYMOUS_ID, // a unique id
  },
  scopes: [`manage_project:${projectKey}`],
  httpClient: fetch,
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withAnonymousSessionFlow(options)
  // ...
  .build();

withRefreshTokenFlow

Handles authentication for the refresh token flow of the Composable Commerce API.
type RefreshAuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: string;
  projectKey: string;
  credentials: {
    clientId: string;
    clientSecret: string;
  };
  refreshToken: string;
  tokenCache?: TokenCache;
  oauthUri?: string;
  httpClient: Function<fetch | axiosInstance>;
  httpClientOptions?: object;
};

const options: RefreshAuthMiddlewareOptions = {
  host: 'https://auth.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com',
  projectKey: 'test-project-key',
  credentials: {
    clientId: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: process.env.CTP_CLIENT_SECRET,
  },
  refreshToken: 'bXvTyxc5yuebdvwTwyXn==',
  tokenCache: TokenCache,
  scopes: [`manage_project:${projectKey}`],
  httpClient: fetch,
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withRefreshTokenFlow(options)
  // ...
  .build();

withExistingTokenFlow

Attaches an access token Authorization header.

type ExistingTokenMiddlewareOptions = {
  force?: boolean;
};

const authorization: string = 'Bearer G8GLDqrUMYzaOjhdFGfK1HRIOAtj7qQy';
const options: ExistingTokenMiddlewareOptions = {
  force: true,
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withExistingTokenFlow(authorization, options)
  // ...
  .build();

CorrelationIdMiddleware

CorrelationIdMiddleware adds the X-Correlation-ID entry to the request headers.
type CorrelationIdMiddlewareOptions = {
  generate: () => string;
};

const options: CorrelationIdMiddlewareOptions = {
  generate: () => 'cd260fc9-c575-4ba3-8789-cc4c9980ee4e', // Replace with your own UUID or a generator function
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withCorrelationIdMiddleware(options)
  // ...
  .build();

UserAgentMiddleware

UserAgentMiddleware adds a customizable User-Agent header to every request. By default it adds the SDK (and its version) and the running process (and its version) to the request. For example:
'User-Agent': 'commercetools-sdk-javascript-v2/2.1.4 node.js/18.13.0'
type HttpUserAgentOptions = {
  name?: string;
  version?: string;
  libraryName?: string;
  libraryVersion?: string;
  contactUrl?: string;
  contactEmail?: string;
  customAgent?: string;
};

const options: HttpUserAgentOptions = {
  name: 'test-client-agent',
  version: 'x.y.z',
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withUserAgentMiddleware(options)
  // ...
  .build();

QueueMiddleware

Use QueueMiddleware to reduce concurrent HTTP requests.

type QueueMiddlewareOptions = {
  concurrency: number;
};

const options: QueueMiddlewareOptions = {
  concurrency: 20,
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withQueueMiddleware(options)
  // ...
  .build();

ErrorMiddleware

Use ErrorMiddleware to handle HTTP errors by providing a custom error handler function via options. If specified, this function is invoked with the error object, request, response, and next function when an error occurs.
type ErrorHandlerOptions = {
  error: HttpErrorType;
  request: MiddlewareRequest;
  response: MiddlewareResponse;
  next: Next;
};

type ErrorMiddlewareOptions = {
  handler?: (args: ErrorHandlerOptions) => Promise<MiddlewareResponse>;
};

const errorMiddlewareOptions: ErrorMiddlewareOptions = {
  handler: async (args: ErrorHandlerOptions): Promise<MiddlewareResponse> => {
    const { error, request, response, next } = args;

    // handle error here
    if ('NetworkError'.includes(error.code) && response.retryCount == 0) {
      return next(request)
    }

    return response
  },
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withErrorMiddleware(errorMiddlewareOptions)
  // ...
  .build();

TelemetryMiddleware

Allows integrating analytics and monitoring services (such as New Relic or Dynatrace) into your TypeScript SDK applications. For more information, see Observability.
withTelemetryMiddleware requires the @commercetools/ts-sdk-apm package. You can install it by using any one of the following commands:
Install with npmbash
npm install @commercetools/ts-sdk-apm
Install with yarnbash
yarn add @commercetools/ts-sdk-apm

// Required import
import {
  createTelemetryMiddleware,
  TelemetryMiddlewareOptions,
} from '@commercetools/ts-sdk-apm';

const telemetryOptions: TelemetryMiddlewareOptions = {
  createTelemetryMiddleware,
  apm: () => typeof require('newrelic'), // installed npm `newrelic` package
  tracer: () => typeof require('/absolute-path-to-a-tracer-module'),
  customMetrics: {
    newrelic: true,
    datadog: true,
  },
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withTelemetryMiddleware(telemetryOptions)
  // ...
  .build();

LoggerMiddleware

Logs incoming requests and response objects. You can add an optional options parameter, which accepts a custom logger function, and another optional parameter to be used within the custom logger function.
type LoggerMiddlewareOptions = {
  loggerFn?: (options: MiddlewareResponse) => void
}

const loggerMiddlewareOptions: LoggerMiddlewareOptions = {
  loggerFn: (response: MiddlewareResponse) => {
    console.log('Response is: ', response)
  },
}

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withLoggerMiddleware(loggerMiddlewareOptions)
  // ...
  .build();

Concurrent modification middleware

This middleware manages concurrent modification errors. It retries the request if commercetools Composable Commerce returns a 409 Conflict HTTP status code.

By default, it takes the correct version from the error response and resends the request. This behavior can be overridden by providing a custom function.

type ConcurrentModificationMiddlewareOptions = {
  concurrentModificationHandlerFn: (
    version: number,
    request: MiddlewareRequest,
    response: MiddlewareResponse
  ) => Promise<Record<string, any> | string | Buffer>;
};

const options: ConcurrentModificationMiddlewareOptions = {
  concurrentModificationHandlerFn: (version, request) => {
    console.log(`Concurrent modification error, retry with version ${version}`);

    const body = request.body as Record<string, any>;
    body.version = version;

    return Promise.resolve(body);
  },
};

const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withConcurrentModificationMiddleware(options)
  // ...
  .build();

Custom middleware

Certain use cases, such as adding headers to API requests, may require you to create custom middleware.

The following code example demonstrates how to create custom middleware that includes a value for the header X-External-User-ID.
function createCustomHeaderMiddleware() {
  return (next: Next): Next => (request: MiddlewareRequest) => {
    const newRequest = {
      ...request,
      headers: {
        ...request.headers,
        'X-External-User-ID': 'custom-header-value',
      },
    };

    return next(newRequest);
  };
}
You can add this custom middleware by using the .withMiddleware() method. Using this method, the SDK calls your middleware before calling other middlewares.
To add custom middleware that the SDK should call before or after the execution to Composable Commerce API, use BeforeExecutionMiddleware or AfterExecutionMiddleware.
const client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withMiddleware(createCustomHeaderMiddleware())
  // ...
  .build();

BeforeExecutionMiddleware

This middleware runs before the SDK calls the Composable Commerce API, and is useful for preprocessing requests. This middleware has access to the request and response object as well as the options included in .withBeforeExecutionMiddleware().
import {
  type Next,
  type Client,
  type MiddlewareRequest,
  type BeforeExecutionMiddlewareOptions,
  type MiddlewareResponse,
  ClientBuilder,
} from '@commercetools/ts-client';

function before(options: BeforeExecutionMiddlewareOptions) {
  return (next: Next): Next => {
    return (req: MiddlewareRequest) => {
      // Logic to be executed goes here
      // option will contain { name: 'before-middleware-fn' }
      console.log(options); // { name: 'before-middleware-fn' }
      return next(req);
    };
  };
}

const client: Client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withProjectKey('projectKey')
  .withBeforeExecutionMiddleware({
    name: 'before-middleware-fn',
    middleware: before,
  })
  // ...
  .build();

AfterExecutionMiddleware

This middleware runs after the SDK calls the Composable Commerce API, and is useful for checking the API response for further actions (for example, custom retry implementations and post-response processing). This middleware has access to the request and response object as well as the options included in .withAfterExecutionMiddleware().
import {
  type Next,
  type Client,
  type MiddlewareRequest,
  type AfterExecutionMiddlewareOptions,
  type MiddlewareResponse,
  ClientBuilder,
} from '@commercetools/ts-client';

function after(options: AfterExecutionMiddlewareOptions) {
  return (next: Next): Next => {
    return (req: MiddlewareRequest) => {
      // Logic to be executed goes here
      // option will contain { name: 'after-middleware-fn' }
      console.log(options); // { name: 'after-middleware-fn' }
      return next(req);
    };
  };
}

const client: Client = new ClientBuilder()
  .withProjectKey('projectKey')
  .withAfterExecutionMiddleware({
    name: 'after-middleware-fn',
    middleware: after,
  })
  // ...
  .build();

The custom middleware function has the following Type definition/signature:

export type Middleware = (
  next: Next
) => (request: MiddlewareRequest) => Promise<MiddlewareResponse>;