Tableau Extensiona API adapter attempt
Posted on February 17, 2021 in
2 min read
Creating a Tableau Extensions requires a specific dev setup because you need to talk with Tableau software during development.
For this reason I've' created an adapter in order to develop a Tableau extension without using Tableau for testing.
The reason was to speed up the development leaving the Tableau integration just for, precisely, the integration tests.
Here the first release of this adapter. There are a lot of missing parts but it's already useful for the basic integrations:
const store = {}
const tableau = {
extensions: {
initializeAsync () {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
setTimeout(() => {
resolve()
}, 200)
})
},
dashboardContent: {
dashboard: {
name: 'Mock Dashboard',
worksheets: []
}
},
settings: {
getAll () {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
setTimeout(() => {
resolve({})
}, 200)
})
},
set (key, value) {
store[key] = value
},
saveAsync () {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
setTimeout(() => {
resolve(store)
}, 200)
})
}
}
}
}
export default tableau
I use this adapter in a React app exploiting an env parameter to start two different development sessions:
"scripts": {
"start": "REACT_APP_MOCK=1 craco start",
"tableau": "craco start",
...
},
Then, here the adapter selector:
import tableauMock from './tableau.mock.js'
const tableauBridge = process.env.REACT_APP_MOCK ? tableauMock : window.tableau
export default tableauBridge
And in the App.js file:
import tableau from './libs/tableau.bridge.js'
In case I'd add further methods, it'd be better to put it in a proper repository to allow contributions.