NFT (NetSuite Fasttrack Toolkit)

for SuiteScript 2.x

This is a small but powerful framework for writing SuitScript that scales. A primary goal is to enable authoring scripts that easy to write and easy to maintain.

Includes

• nsdal (Netsuite Data Access Layer) ActiveRecord-like approach using predefined and customizable strong types for NetSuite record access including sublist support.
• advanced logging facility
• advanced search handling (search results are an arbitrarily long stream of objects)
• governance management (governance monitoring and automatic script rescheduling)

also included (only as a convenience, NFT does not depend on these):

• immutablejs - used for arbitrary length sequences and elegant search result processing)
• lodash - NFT enables direct use of this amazing library on NS records and search result collections)
• momentjs - popular date manipulation library
• bignumber.js - better decimal math

see package-lock.json for exactly which versions of the above libraries are included.

See API docs here

Getting Started (Typescript)

Install this package as a dependency and the SuiteScript 2.x (SS2) typings from @hitc

npm install netsuite-fasttrack-toolkit-ss2 
npm install @hitc/netsuite-types --save-dev 

Deploy core library to NS

Use the NetSuite file cabinet advanced add button to upload the node_modules/netsuite-fasttrack-toolkit-ss2/dist/NFT-SS2-#.#.#.zip file to the same folder in which you place your SuiteScripts. It will extract to a subfolder named NFT-SS2-#.#.#.

If you typically just put your SuiteScripts under the /SuiteScripts/ folder in the NS file cabinet then simply extract the zip there. A recommended practice is to put your SuiteScript 2.0 files under a subfolder, such as SuiteScripts/SS2/. This creates a convenient 'root' folder for your SS2 projects.

After install you should get a folder link at your project root named NFT-SS2-#.#.# This creates a folder structure mirroring what you have in NetSuite so you can use relative paths when you import from the library (e.g. import {CustomerBase} from "./NFT-SS2-1.2.3/DataAcess/CustomerBase)

NetSuite Data Access Layer (NSDAL)

NSDAL is a variation of the Active Record pattern for working with NetSuite records. It removes boilerplate code and simplifies access to NetSuite body fields, sublists, and even subrecords; all reduced to simple objects and properties familiar to all javascript developers.

Behind the scenes, NSDAL is a thin wrapper eliminating boilerplate code (e.g. getValue({fieldId:'foo'}. It still calls all the normal NetSuite APIs.

NSDAL defines NetSuite record types in a class hierarchy. You can use the xxxBase classes directly if you don’t need custom fields. Otherwise you derive your own class and add custom fields as shown in the code example that follows.

Subrecord support! Take a look at the CustomerBase.addressbook sublist. CustomerBase.addressbook[0].addressbookaddress gets the strongly typed AddressBase SubRecord. It works mostly like any other record you just don't explicitly save() it.

Works with SuiteScript 2.0 and 2.1.

Overview Example

/**
 * Test file for SuiteScript 2.0 
 * (replace 'NFT/' below with the relative path to your NFT-SS2-x.y.z folder)
 * @NApiVersion 2.x
 * @NScriptType Suitelet
 */

import * as LogManager from 'NFT/EC_Logger'
import {CustomerBase} from  'NFT/DataAccess/CustomerBase'
import {FieldType} from 'NFT/DataAccess/Record'
import {SublistFieldType,Sublist,SublistLine} from 'NFT/DataAccess/Sublist'
import * as _ from 'NFT/lodash'

// each script should request the DefaultLogger
var log = LogManager.DefaultLogger

/**
* Define fields for the 'contactroles' sublist on customer
*/
class ContactRolesSublist extends SublistLine {
   // the country internal id
   @SublistFieldType.select
   role: number

   // adding `Text` suffix to field name surfaces the text value
   // instead of internalid
   @SublistFieldType.select
   roleText: string
}

/**
 * define a customer class for our NetSuite account including custom fields. Standard fields come from customer.Base 
 * so we don't have to repeat them here. This Customer class could be in a separate file/folder (e.g RecordTypes/Customer.ts) and 
 * reused across all scripts via `import {Customer} from "./RecordTypes/Customer"`
 */
class Customer extends CustomerBase {
   @FieldType.multiselect
   custentity_multiselect:number[]

   @FieldType.datetime
   custentity_shawn_date : Date
   
   // add 'Text' suffix to any property to `getText()` instead of `getValue()`
   @FieldType.datetime
   custentity_shawn_dateText: string
   
   @FieldType.sublist(ContactRolesSublist)
   contactroles: Sublist<ContactRolesSublist>
}


export = {

   onRequest: (req, resp) => {

      // load customer internal id 1542
      var c = new Customer(1542)

      // strongly typed field access
      c.companyname = 'a new company name'
      c.custentity_multiselect = [1, 2]
      c.custentity_a_date = new Date()
      // access `role` field VALUE of first contact role 
      c.contactroles[0].role 
      // access `country` field TEXT of first contact role
      c.contactroles[0].roleText

      // persist changes
      c.save();

      // just log a couple properties from our customer object
      log.debug('customer', _.pick(c,['custentity_a_date', 'companyname']))
      
      // address book - including experimental subrecord access
      // get addressbook subrecord of first address on the customer
      const addrSubRecord = c.addressbook[0].addressbookaddress
      // addrSubRecord has fields like addr1, addr2, city, country, state, addrphone etc.
      log.debug('address subrecord', addrSubRecord)
   }
}

see also example.ts

NetSuite record definitions are contained in a class hierarchy to simplify defining them. You generally only work with the bundled base classes, or derive your own e.g. use CustomerBase directly or define class Customer extends CustomerBase as shown in the example above.

Custom Records

Defining custom records is similar to standard records but you inherit from NetSuiteRecord and define the recordType() method.

export class MyCustomRecord extends NetsuiteRecord {
 static recordType () { return 'customrecord_myrecord' }

 /**
  * Custom Name
  */
 @FieldType.freeformtext
 custrecord__name: string
}

See the CodeGeneration/ folder for information on generating these custom record classes automatically.

Sublists and Subrecords

Use @FieldType.subrecord and @SublistFieldType.subrecord to designate fields that point to NetSuite subrecords. Use them similarly to the sublist field type.

Initially we have Address and InventoryDetail subrecords defined.

This lets you work with subrecords as plain javascript objects just like the rest of NSDAL. e.g.

    const build = new AssemblyBuild(123)
    
    // reading the quantity field of the InventoryDetail body field on Assembly Build record 
    build.inventorydetail.quantity 

Body/Sublist Field Name Conflicts

A body field name can conflict with a sublist name (e.g. "currency" can be both a body level field name and a sublist name on some record types).

To work around this, add a Sublist suffix to your sublist field name in the class definition. For example:

import { SublistFieldType } from './Sublist'
import { CurrencySublist } from './CustomerBase'
import { FieldType } from './Record'

class Customer {

  @Sublist(CurrencySublist)
  currencySublist: Sublist<CurrencySublist>

  @FieldType.select
  currency: number
}

Sublist Dynamic Mode vs Standard Mode

By default, dynamic mode APIs (e.g. set**Current**SublistValue())) are used if the record itself is in dynamic mode. This is usually what you want. In some cases it's beneficial to use standard mode API even if the record itself is in dynamic mode (e.g. reading the apply sublist on a VendorPayment). To temporarily turn off dynamic mode APIs for sublist access set useDynamicModeAPI = false on the sublist property.

import { VendorPaymentBase } from './VendorPaymentBase'

// assume this is in a dynamic record context, like a client script.
// the NetSuite record is in dynamic mode, so by default NFT uses dynamic mode API calls.
const vp = new VendorPaymentBase(ctx.newRecord) 
// temporarily turn off dynamic mode - hence uses standard mode APIs 
vp.apply.useDynamicModeAPI = false
// do something with lines of the `apply` sublist 
log.debug('first apply line', vp.apply[0])
vp.apply.useDynamicModeAPI = true // reset back to dynamic mode API calls

Search Helpers

nsSearchResult2obj turns a netsuite search.Result into a POJO, especially useful when chaining operations or returning search results from an API.

import {nsSearchResult2obj} from "NFT/search"
import * as search from "N/search"

const s = search.load({ id: 'somesearchid' } ).run().getRange({start:0, end:1000})
const objects = _.map(s,nsSearchResult2obj()).toArray()

// objects will be array of plain javascript objects with property names matching the field names in netsuite.
// fields with a non-falsey 'Text' value surface as properties suffixed with "Text"
// e.g. `result.fieldname` or `result.fieldnameText`

// see inline help for more (e.g. support for column labels

Lazy Search

While nsSearchResult2obj() is useful on its own, we usually use it with LazySearch. This adds powerful and lazy processing of search results. Here 'lazy' means records are paged in from the search, as needed, never consuming more than 1 page in memory at a time. Contrast this with underscore or lodash which create complete copies of the target collection for each chained operation by default.

For example _.map(searchResults, ...) creates a new collection in memory holding the output of the map, doubling overall memory use (searchResults remains unchanged, and map() emits a new collection of the same length as searchResults)

LazySearch processes one result at a time, passing it through all chained operation methods. It never creates intermediate collections or exceeds 1 page of results stored in memory. This bounded memory usage holds true whether there are 1 or 1 million search results. The limitation is LazySearch is intended for forward-only iteration of search results - which we find is overwhelmingly the most common use case.

import {nsSearchResult2obj, LazySearch} from "./search"
import {Seq} from "immutable"

// get the first result as a POJO 
let firstResultAsObj = Seq(LazySearch.load("123")).map(nsSearchResult2obj<{foo,bar}>()).first()

Also see search in the API documentation, especially the LazySearch class.

Governance

The governance handler utilties can be used with any script, but most often are used with a saved search in a scheduled script.

There are two functions, one for checking governance usage (governanceRemains()) and another which additionally auto-reschedules the currently executing script (rescheduleIfNeeded())

governanceRemains supports parameters for setting thresholds on both time and units usage. See the tsdocs for more on this function.

rescheduleIfNeeded executes the passed predicate, and if it returns false it automatically reschedules the script (using N/task) passing along script parameters if provided.

Example: exit processing automatically when governance falls below time or units threshold.

import {nsSearchResult2obj, LazySearch} from "./search"
import {governanceRemains, rescheduleIfNeeded} from "./governance"
import {Seq} from "immutable"


// process results from search id '123' until out of governance. Governance checks are run for each iteration of the 
// `forEach()` and gracefully exit. 
Seq(LazySearch.load("123")).takeWhile(governanceRemains()).map(nsSearchResult2obj()).forEach( result => {
   // .. do something with search result. 
})


// same as above, but with automatic graceful exit AND rescheduling
Seq(LazySearch.load("123"))
   .takeWhile( rescheduleIfNeeded(governanceRemains()) )
   .map(nsSearchResult2obj<{foo,bar,baz}>())
   .forEach( result => { 
   // .. do something with search result. 
   })

Also see governance API docs

Logging

NFT provides an advanced logging mechanism based on Aurelia's logger.

It means you can have multiple loggers and control the logging verbosity of each. In other words, it's a lightweight but much richer logging facility than the NetSuite provided logger.

AutoLogging

Automatically log entry and exit of methods with rich options by adding a line like this to the end of your script:

LogManager.autoLogMethodEntryExit({target:EC,method:/\w/}, { withProfiling:true })

The above line will automatically log all methods defined on the EC object/namespace

Other configuration options include automatic logging of execution time, governance usage, and other goodies.

See the jsdoc help for autologMethodEntryExit()

Contributing

Please do.

TypeScript

This is written with TS and is recommended. However, it can be used by javascript clients as well.

Configure tsconfig to include paths for NetSuite modules and NFT modules:

{
  "paths": {
    "N/*": [
      "node_modules/@hitc/netsuite-types/N/*"
    ]
  }
}

NetSuite Module Declarations

• Typescript definitions (N/*.d.ts files) are defined via the @hitc/netsuite-types project

Tests

The test/ folder is configured to use ts-jest to compile the sources.

to run the test suite:

npm test

For Contributors

The following are useful if you're contributing to the codebase and publishing to NPM Skip this section if you're just using NFT in your projects.

Build and Publish

node_modules/.bin/tsc
node_modules/.bin/gulp
node_modules/.bin/gulp declarations
node_modules/.bin/gulp docs
npm publish

Don't forget to assign an appropriate version number in package.json then git tag the release with that version number and push.

Build API docs (hosted on Github Pages)

node_modules/.bin/gulp docs