JS API Proposal

API configuration

A new setting for the main app configuration is added. This setting is a JSON object that can be configured from the admin page. It defines how the main search application is.

Old UI settings are moved to that main app configuration. The list of old settings are:

• 3D maps
• map configuration
• ...

Settings API change:

• A new operation is added in order to collect the value of JSON node in a JSON setting. GET /api/settings/?node=config.download

Application configuration

The following configuration is used to configure the application.

This configuration is used in the GeoNetwork main app.

Build custom configuration

From the admin panel, catalog administrator can also create custom configuration for third party application. This page provides all the JS API settings and allows user to download the application configuration as JSON file.

Testing

A simple HTML page is created in order to test the JS API.