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OA.Works embed

This is the OA.Works javascript embed. It provides functionality for various services, at the moment including InstantILL and ShareYourPaper. It can be extended to support more OA.Works services in future.

There is only one file, oab_embed.js (and a minified version). It starts with some definitions of functions that are useful without using big libraries like jQuery. These are defined on the _OA prefix. Then there is the general embed functionality itself, defined on _oab. This includes functions that make calls to the OA.Works API. Any new functionality requried to make such calls should be added here.

Then there are css and html templates for each service that needs them - for example there is currently a shareyourpaper template and an instantill template. New ones could be added later.

Next is the configure function. This is pretty complicated owing to a combination of old and new config situations. It should be simplifed to expect the config to be provided when the embed is instantiated on the web page it is embedded into, but for now it makes various loops to try to retrieve a config from the API, and these loops depend on timing of whether or not bootstrap css values are found in the page or not, and also whether or not a DOI is provided in the URL. The purpose here was to ensure that config setup is not delayed by requests, but also that requests triggered by the URL are not delayed by waiting for config to be retrieved.

After config there's just the declarations of the two services the embed currently provides, shareyourpaper and instantill. So either of these can be used on a web page by adding a script tag to the embed file, then within a javascript element on the page running the relevant service by instantiating it such as syp = shareyourpaper();

A config object can be provided at instantiation, see the source of the dev site for an example:

https://dev.shareyourpaper.org

To deploy

Make changes in the develop branch. Once complete, commit the changes. SSH to the old (dev.)openaccessbutton.org server (ask sysadmin how to do this) and find the dev/oaworks/embed folder, and git pull. The embed itself is served through the website domain so switch to the dev/oaworks/website folder and run the node build.js command. This will rebuild the website and assets, including the embed via a symlink.

To deploy live, go to the live/oaworks/embed folder and git pull, git merge origin/develop, git push. Then go to live/oaworks/website and node build.js to update the live site assets.

To run locally

Simply create a static file containing rudimentary HTML markup (e.g. named index.html), place it at the root directory, and copy the following code into it, replacing text in [brackets] with the right information:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">

  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>local embed test</title>
  </head>

 <body>

   <div id="shareyourpaper"></div>
   <script src="embed.js"></script> <script>_oab=shareyourpaper({api: '[ASK FOR API ACCESS]', uid: "[UID HERE]", config: { "owner": "[EMAIL HERE]" }});</script>

 </body>

</html>

You may now make any modifications to the embed.js code on your own branch and see your changes with every page refresh.

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