silverstripe-bilinfo

Implementation of the danish Bilinfo GET listings API

The API is very limited as it simply returns a big payload of json with all vehicle listings.

composer require nobrainer-web/silverstripe-bilinfo

Requirements

• SilverStripe 4
• PHP 7.3 (for better json_encode error handling)
• A user at Bilinfo

API Credentials

The BilInfo API requires a username and password. You must set these in .env with these variables:

• SS_BILINFO_USER
• SS_BILINFO_PASSWORD

Example:

• SS_BILINFO_USER='demo'
• SS_BILINFO_PASSWORD='ocfB6XzF73'

Build Tasks

To pull down data from the BilInfo API and save it, you can use GetApiDataTask. This task should probably be run as a cron job, once a day.

Then you would use GetSinceDaysDataTask every hour or so, to get latest updated API data. The ?sincedays param is by default set 1.

Deletion

A Listing is "Sold" when the ExternalDeletedDate field is set.

By default automatic clean up of sold listings is enabled. This can be disabled on Listings::$enabled_automatic_cleanup.

Run dev/tasks/bi-cleanup-listings-task to clean up listings. It will check the Listings::$deletion_after_days_sold setting to decide if a Listing should be deleted or not

A note on DB fields in this module

All fields from the API are strings. Some of these fields are mapped to INT instead.

TODO

• Translations and proper strings for equipment names
• Support for Video/360 images
• Support to output other sizes of listing image urls