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@kth/api-call

v4.1.0

Published

Node.js module to make JSON calls against APIs.

Downloads

2,349

Readme

KTH API Call for Node

Node module used to make JSON calls against APIs. (Previously published as kth-node-api-call, now @kth/api-call.)

To use in your node project, run:

npm i @kth/api-call

Setup

In your init callback to the Express web server, this should happen:

const connections = require('@kth/api-call').Connections

const nodeApi = {
  namedApi: {
    host: 'localhost', // api hostname
    https: false, // use ssl?
    port: 3001, // api port
    proxyBasePath: '/api/applicationName', // api base path
    required: true, // is the api required? Optional, defaults to false
    defaultTimeout: 2000, // milliseconds. Optional, defaults to 2000
  },
}

const cacheConfig = {
  namedApi: {
    redis: {
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 6379,
    },
  },
}

const apiKey = {
  namedApi: '1234',
}

const options = {
  timeout: 5000, // milliseconds, retry interval if getting API-paths fails
  log: myLogger, // your logger instance
  redis: myRedis, // your redis instance
  cache: cacheConfig, // your api cache options
  checkAPIs: true,
}
// either
module.exports = connections.setup(nodeApi, apiKey, options)
// or
const api = connections.setup(nodeApi, apiKey, options)

Note

The checkAPIs option requires that the API implements a checkAPIkey route, see node-api The endpoint can be overridden by setting the statusCheckPath property on the api config object

Usage

Wherever you need to call your api, use something on the form of:

const paths = api.namedApi.paths
const client = api.namedApi.client

// user is a uri parameter
client.getAsync(client.resolve(paths.[YOUR_ENDPOINT], {user: username, etc...}))
.then(response => {
  // do something with result
})

if you want to use a cached api, add the option {useCache: true} to the getAsync call like this:

client.getAsync([FULL_PATH], { useCache: true }).then(response => {
  // etc.
})

BasicAPI

This used to be a straightforward wrapper around request. Since version 4, request is replaced by node-fetch, with efforts made to keep the same methods.

BasicAPI will allow more control but also encourage more code re-use. It allows the use of Promises and caching (via redis) of successful responses (status >= 200 and status < 400).

For more details see the examples below and the source code.

// configure this and re-use throughout your app

const api = new BasicAPI({
  hostname: 'localhost',
  port: 3001,
  json: true,
  https: false,
  headers: {
    api_key: 'abcd',
  },
  // optionally enable redis for response caching
  // redis: {
  //   client: redisClient,
  //   prefix: 'node-api',
  //   expire: 120
  // }
})

// usage example:

const params = { id: 123 }
const uri = api.resolve('/value/:id', params)

// promise
api
  .getAsync(uri)
  .then(response => {
    if (response.statusCode >= 200 && response.statusCode < 400) {
      // do something with response.body
    } else {
      // bad/unexpected status code, delegate error
    }
  })
  .catch(err => {
    // handle/delegate err
  })

// or callback
api.get(uri, (err, response, body) => {
  if (err) {
    // handle/delegate err
    return
  }

  if (response.statusCode >= 200 && response.statusCode < 400) {
    // do something with response.body
  } else {
    // bad/unexpected status code, delegate error
  }
})

HTTP Request Methods

Each of the following sends a corresponding HTTP request. Append Async (e.g. getAsync) to use Promise instead of callback. The first parameter should be either a uri (as a string) or an options object which is passed to node-fetch. For non-async methods the second parameter should be a function with the following signature: function (error, response, body) { ... }. The callback parameters are the same as for the request library.

Note that if you use Redis and/or the async methods you might lose some functionality. For details about this, read the source code!

  • get/getAsync
  • post/postAsync
  • put/putAsync
  • del/delAsync
  • head/headAsync
  • patch/patchAsync

Utility Methods

  • resolve takes two parameters. The first is a uri template, e.g. /value/:name, and the second is a plain object, e.g. { name: 'foo' }. It will then replace :name with the matching values in the object, resolving the uri /value/foo.
  • defaults re-uses the same config and applies another configuration set on top. Basically it does the same as request.defaults() but returns a valid BasicAPI instance.

Migration from version 3 to 4

  • jar and cookie were basic wrappers to the corresponding request methods. They were removed in version 4.
  • defaults was deprecated in version 4. Use new BasicAPI(options) instead.