Restful JSON API

A tool for rapid restful API development.

Overview

Features

• async/await syntax for deterministic response
• Automatic 404, 405, and 501 responses
• Strict and specific misconfiguration errors for rapid development
• Detailed error types using @whi/serious-error-types
• Flexible directive structure
• Derived API documentation

Usage

Install

npm install @whi/restful-json-api

Import

const { RestfulAPI } = require('@whi/restful-json-api');

Javascript API

API.md

Automatic Assistants

404 Not Found

Automatically returned when

• the endpoint has been defined
• and, the request method is not defined
• and, the request method is GET or HEAD

HTTP specification states that servers must support GET and HEAD methods. So instead of 405 or 501 we return a 404 to indicate that the endpoint is valid but empty.

405 Method Not Allowed

Automatically returned when

• the endpoint has been defined
• and, the request method is supported by this server
• but, this endpoint does not support that request method

It will return the "Allow" header with the endpoint's supported request methods because 405 responses must include the "Allow" header.

501 Not Implemented

Automatically returned when

• the endpoint has been defined
• but, the request method is not supported by this server