iopa-router

Lightweight router for the IOPA Stack for Node.js

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import iopaRouter from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/iopa-router';
</script>

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iopa-router

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About

iopa-router is lightweight router for the IOPA framework

It routes HTTP, COAP and MQTT requests, with simple uri templates and parameter/query string parsing.

Usage

Installation:

npm install iopa-router

Hello World

const Router = require('iopa-router'),
    iopa = require('iopa'),
    http = require('http'),
    iopaConnect = require('iopa-connect')

var app = new iopa.App();

app.use(Router);

app.get('/hello', function(context, done){
          context.response["iopa.Body"].end("<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Hello World</BODY>");
          return done();
          });
          
 app.get('/goodbye', function(context, done){
          context.response["iopa.Body"].end("<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Goodbye World</BODY>");
          return done();
          });

http.createServer(app.buildHttp()).listen(3000);

Methods

  • route.get: Match GET requests
  • route.post: Match POST requests
  • route.put: Match PUT requests
  • route.head: Match HEAD requests
  • route.del: Match DELETE requests
  • route.options: Match OPTIONS requests
  • route.all: Match all above request methods.
  • route.debugget: Match GET for scheme='debug' requests

API

If you want to grab a part of the path you can use capture groups in the pattern:

route.get('/id/{customer}', function() {
    var base = this.Params.base; // ex: if the path is /id/bar, then customer = bar

Query paramaters in the url are also added to owin.Params:

route.get('/id/{customer}', function() {
    var base = this.Params.base; // ex: if the path is /id/bar?name=dog, then customer = bar
    var name = this.Params.name; // ex: if the path is /id/bar?name=dog, then name = dog
});

The capture patterns matches until the next / or character present after the group

route.get('/{x}x{y}', function() {
    // if the path was /200x200, then his.Params = {x:'200', y:'200'}
});

Optional patterns are supported by adding a ? at the end

route.get('/{prefix}?/{top}', function() {
    // matches both '/a/b' and '/b'
});

If you want to just match everything you can use a wildcard * which works like posix wildcards

route.get('/{prefix}/*', function() {
    // matches both '/a/', '/a/b', 'a/b/c' and so on.
    // the value of the wildcard is available through req.params.wildcard
});

If the standard capture groups aren't expressive enough for you can specify an optional inline regex

route.get('/{digits}([0-9]+)', function() {
    // matches both '/24' and '/424' but not '/abefest' and so on.
});

You can also use regular expressions and the related capture groups instead:

route.get(/^\/foo\/(\w+)/, function(req, res) {
    var group = req.params[1]; // if path is /foo/bar, then group is bar
});

Error handling

By default iopa-router will simply move to next iopa middleware function if no route matched.
The router is a Promise/A compatible async function that respects error bubbling, but has no specific handling built in.

You can provide a catch-all to a given route that is called if no route was matched:

route.get(function(context) {
// called if no other get route matched
context.response.writeHead(404);
context.response.end('no GET handler found');
});

Credits

This router was ported from gett/router which was developed under MIT license by Mathias Buus Madsen and Ian Jorgensen.

It has been developed to be a core component of the IOPA ecosystem.