easy-api-request

Request wrapper providing header and cookie forwarding with express. Will add the request creation function to the 'request' object.

Usage

Configure the wrapper for a specific api

var apiRequest = require('easy-api-request');
apiRequest.create({
    name: 'testAPI',
    config: {
        url: 'http://example.com', // baseUrl for requests
        
        internal: true, //If true then all x- headers are forwarded
        
        jSend: true, //If we are expecting jSend formatted response
        
        headers: [], //Headers we want to proxy from request object
        
        cookies: [], //Cookies we want to proxy from request object
        
        replyCookies: [], //Cookies we want to proxy from reply
        
        opts: {}, //Options for request.defaults
        
        cleanLogData: Function // Gets the opts object before request is made 
        // and should return a cloned/masked object
        // by default masks password and cc names
    }
});

A function will be added to the request object under the specified name, that function takes one boolean parameter, which specifies if the returned request wrapper should return the stream object or not upon request.

Examples of use

// As promise
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    req.testAPI()
        .get('/cool/path')
        .then(function (resp) {
            res.json(resp);
        })
        .catch(function (err) {
            res.json(err);
        });
});

// With callback
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
req.testAPI().get('/cool/path', function (err, resp) {
  if(err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
  res.json(err || resp);
});

});

// As stream
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
req.testAPI(true).get('/cool/path').pipe(res);

});

// With custom requestOpts 
app.get('/', function (req, res) {

  req.testAPI(false, {
    headers: {
            'x-custom-path': req.path
        }
    })
.get('/cool/path')
.then(function (resp) {
  res.json(resp);
})
.catch(function (err) {
  res.json(err);
});
});

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2015 Karl Düüna

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.