Sample code to automatically create Frame.io Projects and Folders

folder-templater-nodejs-example.js

// Note: this sample code is in the process of being re-written
// and assumes a client SDK is available to wrap API requests
// such as createFolder().  The intent is simply to provide
// convenience methods, but you can also write your own API requests
// as shown in this example: https://github.com/Frameio/custom-actions-example-app/blob/ks/DEVREL-589/examples/custom-action-offload-to-s3/modules/api.js

const apiClient = require('./api/client.js')
const template = require('./templates/onlineTemplate.json')

function createProject(name, teamId) {
  const path = `/teams/${teamId}/projects`
  const body = {
    name: name,
    projectPreferences
  }
  const resp = apiClient.post(path, body)
  return resp.json()
}

function createFolder(name, parentId) {
  const path = `/assets/${parentId}/children`
  const body = {
    type: "folder",
    name: name,
  }
  const resp = apiClient.post(path, body)
  return resp.json()
}

const runTemplater = function(template) {
    // This example uses preorder traversal to create each folder then 
    // traverse subfolders before moving to next branch of the tree

    const itemsToCreate = template

    while (itemsToCreate.length) {
        let item = itemsToCreate.shift()      
        try {
            if (item['type'] === 'project') {
                //TODO: set a variable root_asset_id to pull the project ID
                //from the JSON response.  This variable will be used to specify the 'parent' for each subfolder to follow.
                //See for reference: https://docs.frame.io/docs/root-asset-ids
                root_asset_id = apiClient.createProject(teamId)
            }
            else if(item['type'] === 'folder') {
              //TODO: Similar to project creation, handle the JSON response
              //and store the parent folder ID as the parentId, 
              //in case there is another level of sub-folders to traverse.
              parentId = apiClient.createFolder(item['name'], parentId)
                if(item['subfolders']) itemsToCreate.unshift(...item.subfolders)
            }
        } catch (err) {
            console.log(error);
        }
        }
    }

// Store the team ID in an environment variable.
teamId = env.process.teamId

// This sample code makes an assumption that the API Token required to
// Authenticate to the Frame.io API is stored in an environment variable
// and accessible to the client SDK (TBD for Node.js but exists for other languages)
runTemplater(onlineFolderTemplate)