AddThis Smart Layers API Integration

[doylejd]

The Smart Layers API allows you to have more control over how AddThis functions on your website. For more information see: http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/1200473-smart-layers-api

Initial thoughts on how to do this and to discuss further with @nerdstein and @damontgomery :

• Create a configuration entity to handle the config?
• Allow the configuration to be attached to a route? Maybe set a default and allow specific ones to be overridden? My thought is that you will want most of your site to be consistent - but if you have promo pages you might want to allow for alternate options.
• Could do this at the block level, but that doesn't feel right to me.

Option 2:

• Provide a new global configuration page for site-wide settings for SmartLayersAPI.
• Add the SmartLayersAPI config to the AddThisScriptManager and update the JS as needed

[nerdstein]

@kylebrowning - is this a good use case for a Service?

[nerdstein]

@doylejd - we're working on the Services D8 port that seems similar to what your describing. @kylebrowning would need to provide guidance on if this use case fits the bill

[damontgomery]

@doylejd based on http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/1216215-what-are-smart-layers- it seems like the use case for these are different. The smart layers is the newer system for them and honestly seems a lot easier to use, but doesn't provide buttons that you can place inline with content.

Maybe smart layers makes sense as a sub module or additional module all together?

Honestly, adding addthis is not that difficult on a site by site basis. As such, I think you will get more benefit from making the functionality of this module very specific and limited. If users want to customize it, they can add the widget themselves. You sacrifice the major use case by adding all of this complexity.