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Unkey + Elixir Mix Supervision

A simple example of using the Unkey Elixir SDK.

Written by glamboyosa
Language
Elixir

A simple example of using the Unkey Elixir SDK.

Installation

The package can be installed from Hex PM by adding

unkey_elixir_sdk
to your list of dependencies in
mix.exs
:

Note: This project uses Elixir version

1.13
.

def deps do [ {:unkey_elixir_sdk, "~> 0.1.1"} ] end

Start the GenServer

This example uses a supervision tree to start the SDK

The GenServer takes a map with two properties.

  • token: Your Unkey Access token used to make requests. You can create one here required
  • base_url: The base URL endpoint you will be hitting i.e.
    https://api.unkey.dev/v1/keys
    (optional).
children = [ {UnkeyElixirSdk, %{token: "yourunkeyapitoken"}} ] # Now we start the supervisor with the children and a strategy {:ok, pid} = Supervisor.start_link(children, strategy: :one_for_one) # After started, we can query the supervisor for information Supervisor.count_children(pid) #=> %{active: 1, specs: 1, supervisors: 0, workers: 1}

NOTE In order to run this project either create a

config/dev.secret.exs
file with the key
unkey_elixir_sdk_example
and values specified in
.env.example
(token & apiId) OR directly use the environment variables in code (not recommended).

Run the project

You can run the project via the IEX console.

iex -S mix

and call the methods like so:

ElixirMixSupervisionExample.create_key_via_sdk

The full list of callable methods can be found here.

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