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Your first trusted Mappls request

a validated autosuggest result from a credential-safe server boundary

Public Source

What this path can prove

The public REST repository and normalized operation are repository evidence; the issued account remains authoritative for host, auth generation, quota, and region.

Credential boundary

Load the current restricted static key only inside the trusted process. Legacy OAuth and InTouch bearer credentials are separate generations and must never be mixed by inference.

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Mappls Map APIs (REST) !mappls-rest-apis
Before the timer starts

Prepare the exact environment

Do not count account, package, build-host, or device discovery as hidden quickstart work.

  1. 01

    Node.js 20 or newer

  2. 02

    A Mappls project and restricted non-production server key

  3. 03

    An approved region and one autosuggest test query

  4. 04

    Request logging configured to omit URLs containing key query parameters

Five-stage path

Build one complete result

Each stage has a proof. If the proof is missing, do not advance by assumption.

  1. 01

    Confirm the source line

    Open the linked evidence and confirm the exact REST package, endpoint, toolchain, region, and account entitlement before installing anything. The public REST repository and normalized operation are repository evidence; the issued account remains authoritative for host, auth generation, quota, and region.

  2. 02

    Create a clean boundary

    Install the local trusted-server SDK, load credentials from the process environment or secret manager, set an explicit timeout, and expose a narrow application endpoint that accepts only bounded query and region fields.

  3. 03

    Build one useful result

    Call autosuggest through the SDK adapter, preserve Mappls Pin and provider request identity, and return a small normalized candidate model instead of the entire provider body.

  4. 04

    Run the release path

    Run the server in a non-production environment, submit one deterministic query, then repeat with an invalid region, timeout, and missing credential.

  5. 05

    Break it deliberately

    Exercise missing/denied credentials, unavailable network or runtime, invalid input, cancellation, and cleanup. Show a bounded user-safe failure while retaining a correlation identity for support.

Clean-path commands

Run what will ship

Replace documented placeholders through your environment or secret provider. Commands are scaffolds; platform signing, accounts, packages, and schemes remain project-specific.

$ npm install

$ MAPPLS_STATIC_KEY=YOUR_RESTRICTED_KEY npm run dev

$ npm test
Application-owned seam

Start with code you can replace

The scaffold keeps provider-specific symbols and credentials behind a narrow boundary. Bind the confirmed Mappls source line inside that adapter.

REST first-success scaffold
import { createMapplsClientFromEnvironment } from "@mappls/server-sdk";

const mappls = createMapplsClientFromEnvironment();

export async function suggest(query: string, requestId: string) {
  if (query.trim().length < 2 || query.length > 120) throw new Error("invalid_query");
  const result = await mappls.autosuggest({ query, region: "IND" });
  return { requestId, result }; // SDK owns auth, timeout, retry, and redaction.
}
Definition of first success

Verify behavior, not screenshots

  1. 1

    The successful response retains a Mappls place identity and the failure response is typed and redacted.

  2. 2

    A blocked, missing, or unentitled provider produces a useful explicit failure rather than a blank surface or fabricated result.

  3. 3

    No server credential, bearer value, precise private fixture, or provider response body appears in client bundles, logs, screenshots, or test artifacts.

  4. 4

    Resources, listeners, sessions, processes, or requests stop cleanly when the owning screen, request, or application ends.

Before productionCredential restriction and URL-log redaction are provenTimeout and bounded retry are explicitInputs and result sizes are boundedProvider request identity is observable without response bodiesCredentials never reach a browser or mobile bundleTimeout, retry, and idempotency policies are explicitCoordinates, addresses, and identifiers have data-retention rulesEvery operation is attributable in logs and usage reporting
Fast diagnosis

When first contact fails

Keep the safe provider request identity, resolved package/runtime versions, platform logs, and exact reproduction steps. Never attach credentials or private location payloads.

SignalLikely causeNext action
A request succeeds locally but its key appears in proxy traces

The current key uses a query transport and an intermediary records full URLs.

Disable query-string logging, restrict the key to server egress, redact telemetry, and rotate any exposed credential before continuing.

Authentication or entitlement is rejected

The credential class, restriction, account region, host/path generation, package application, or subscribed capability does not match.

Do not try another credential shape blindly. Capture the safe status/request identity and reconcile the exact contract in the developer console or support packet.

The sample works once but not after reload, backgrounding, or a second run

Lifecycle ownership, listener disposal, token/session refresh, saved state, or a singleton initialization boundary is incomplete.

Instrument create/ready/cancel/destroy transitions and prove one owner before adding product behavior.

Keep building

From first success to a real journey

Choose the next tutorial only after the quickstart verification holds in your release path.