cb-fetch

A truly cross-browser and forward-compatible library to do asynchronous HTTP requests that follows the callback pattern.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Features
• Importation
• Examples
• API
• Properties
• Gotchas
• License

Installation

npm

npm install --save cb-fetch

yarn

yarn add cb-fetch

jspm

jspm install cb-fetch

bower

bower install --save cb-fetch#master

jsDelivr

<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/combine/npm/@string/isstring/isString.min.js,npm/cb-fetch/index.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Features

• [x] fetch
• [x] XMLHttpRequest
• [x] XDomainRequest
• [x] Universal Module Definition
• [x] fluent API
• [x] normalized response
• [x] interceptors
• [x] WebDAV

Importation

Examples

// here's your typical request
request('http://www.example.com?key1=value1&key2=value2')
  .done(response => { /* … */ });

// taking a comprehensive approach is encouraged though
request()
  .get('http://www.example.com')
  .query('key1=value1&key2=value2')
  .done(onSuccessCallback, onErrorCallback);

// passing an object offers options not available otherwise
let abort = request({
  url:          new URL('http://www.example.com'),
  parameters:   new URLSearchParams('_csrf=TOKEN'),
  mode:         'cors',
  credentials:  'include',
  responseType: 'json',
  headers:      { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
}).get('/segment')
  .query({ foo: ['bar', 'qux'] })
  .hook('download', e => { /* … */ })
  .done({
    success: onSuccessCallback,
    error:   onErrorCallback,
    abort:   onAbortCallback
  });

// forcefully aborts the request
abort();

API

Map

(?: Options | Options.url)
=> Object ┬─────────────────○ done
          ├──────● hookⁿ ───○ done
          │  ┌────────┐
          ├──┤ get    │
          │  │ head   │
          │  │ delete │
          │  └─┬──────┘
          │    ├────────────○ done
          │    ├─● hookⁿ ───○ done
          │    └─● query ───○ done
          │      └─● hookⁿ ─○ done
          │  ┌───────┐
          └──┤ patch │
             │ post  │
             │ put   │
             └─┬─────┘
               ├────────────○ done
               ├─● hookⁿ ───○ done
               └─● send ────○ done
                 └─● hookⁿ ─○ done

Method Signatures

HTTP verbs

(Options.url?) => Object

query

(Options.parameters?) => Object

send

(Options.body?) => Object

hook

loadstart

('loadstart', () => Boolean | Void) => Object

('download', (Object) => Any) => Object

loadend

('loadend', () => Any) => Object

done

{
  (onSuccess?: Function, onError?: Function),
  ({
    success?:  Function,
    error?:    Function,
    timeout?:  Function,
    abort?:    Function
  })
} => () => Void,
  throws: TypeError

Properties

Request Options

Property | Default | Value(s) -------- | ------- | -------- body | null | BufferSource, Blob, Document², FormData, String, URLSearchParams, ReadableStream credentials | 'same‑origin' | 'include', 'omit'⁶, 'same-origin' headers | {} | Object, Headers³ method | 'GET' | String mode | 'same‑origin' | 'cors', 'no-cors'¹, 'same-origin' password | null | String parameters | | URLSearchParams, Object, String responseMediaType² | | String responseType | | 'text', 'json', 'blob', 'document', 'arraybuffer', 'formdata'¹, 'moz-blob', 'moz-chunked-arraybuffer', 'moz-chunked-text', 'msxml-document' timeout | 0 | ℕ username | null | String url | location.href | String, URL multipart⁷ | false | Boolean tunneling⁵ | false | Boolean XSLPattern⁴ | false | Boolean

Progress Event

Property | Type -------- | ---- chunk | String, ArrayBuffer, Blob, Uint8Array, null aggregate | String, ArrayBuffer, Blob, Uint8Array, null loaded | ℕ total | ℕ lengthComputable | Boolean

Response

Property | Type -------- | ---- body | Object, String, Document, ArrayBuffer, Blob, FormData¹, ReadableStream¹, null headers | Object instance | XMLHttpRequest, XDomainRequest, Response, AnonXMLHttpRequest statusCode | ℕ statusText | String url | String

¹ fetch only ² XHR only ³ except Gecko 34–43 ⁴ MSXML 3.0 only ⁵ method override ⁶ fetch, Gecko 16+, Presto/2.10.232–2.12.423 ⁷ Gecko 1.7β–22

Gotchas

delete reserved keyword

In pre-ES5 environments, the delete method requires the use of the bracket notation.

Gecko

For the browsers powered by Gecko 1.9.1–20 to have the exposed response headers populated into the headers property, the following conditions must be met:

• Access-Control-Expose-Headers response header exposes itself
• Access-Control-Expose-Headers field value is not *
• mode set to cors

Trident

XDomainRequest intrinsic limitations

• only support GET and POST methods
• cannot set request headers
• no credentials
• same scheme restriction
• the informational and redirection status code classes are considered errors
• the response's status code and status text are not supplied
• same-origin requests also require the server to respond with an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header of either * or the exact URL of the requesting document

Platform for Privacy Preferences

Internet Explorer’s default settings restrict the use of 3rd party cookies unless a P3P compact policy declaration has been included through a custom HTTP response header; hence, the "include" credentials mode cannot be fully honored if a cookie has been deemed unsatisfactory.

License