Language HTTP

Language Pack for building expressions and operations to make HTTP calls.

Documentation

Configuration

View all the required and optional properties for state.configuration in the official configuration-schema definition.

Get data

This helper function allows the use of a get method to fetch data. You can specify a query string for filter.

get(
  '/myendpoint',
  {
    query: { foo: 'bar', a: 1 },
    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
    authentication: { username: 'taylor', password: 'somethingsecret' },
  },
  state => {
    return state;
  }
);

Post existing data

Send some data to an existing endpoint.

post('/endpoint', {
  body: state => {
    return {
      field_1: 'some_data',
      field_2: 'some_more_data',
      field_id: dataValue('Some.Json.Object.Id')(state),
    };
  },
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'AUTH_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
});

Update existing data with PUT or PATCH

put(
  '/myendpoint',
  {
    body: { firstname: 'taylor', lastname: 'downs' },
    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
    authentication: { username: 'user', password: 'pass' },
  },
  state => {
    return state;
  }
);

patch(
  '/myendpoint',
  {
    body: { firstname: 'taylor', lastname: 'downs' },
    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
    authentication: { username: 'user', password: 'pass' },
  },
  state => {
    return state;
  }
);

Delete data

del(
  '/myendpoint',
  {
    query: { id: 'someId' },
    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
    authentication: { username: 'user', password: 'pass' },
  },
  state => {
    return state;
  }
);

Parse XML

This function allows you to parse some xml data. A callback function can be use to store in a table.

parseXML(body, function ($) {
  return $('table[class=your_table]').parsetable(true, true, true);
});

Parse CSV

parseCSV('someData.csv', {
  quoteChar: '"',
  header: false,
});

Sample parse local CSV file

parseCSV('PatientsJan2009.csv', {
  quoteChar: '"',
  header: false,
  columns: true,
  skip_empty_lines: true,
  trim: true,
  bom: true,
});

Development

Clone the repo, run pnpm install.

Run tests using pnpm run test or pnpm run test:watch.

To build the docs for this repo, run pnpm build:docs.