cbor body parser

A cbor parser for Express

This is a very simple cbor body parser for express by extending the existing npm module 'body-parser'. It wraps https://github.com/hildjj/node-cbor into a middleware.

Installation

$ npm install cbor-body-parser

Example server side usage:

let express = require("express");
let bodyParser = require("body-parser");
bodyParser.cbor = require("cbor-body-parser");

let app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.cbor({limit: "100kB"}));

app.post("/", (req, res) => {
	console.log("Got Payload: " + JSON.stringify(res.body)); 
	res.status(200).json(req.body);
})

app.listen(3000, function () {
	  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});

Client side test

$ gem install cbor-diag
$ echo '{"user":"marry"}' | json2cbor.rb | curl -d @- -H "Content-Type: application/cbor" -X POST http://localhost:3000/

API

	let cborBodyParser = require("cbor-body-parser");

cborBodyParser.cbor([options])

The optional "options" object contains:

limit

Controls the maximum request body size. If this is a number, then the value specifies the number of bytes; if it is a string, the value is passed to the bytes library for parsing. Defaults to '100kb'.

type

The type option is used to determine what media type the middleware will parse. This option can be a string, array of strings, or a function. If not a function, type option is passed directly to the type-is library and this can be an extension name (like cbor), a mime type (like application/cbor), or a mime type with a wildcard (like */* or */cbor). If a function, the type option is called as fn(req) and the request is parsed if it returns a truthy value. Defaults to application/cbor.

verify

The verify option, if supplied, is called as verify(req, res, buf, encoding), where buf is a Buffer of the raw request body and encoding is the encoding of the request. The parsing can be aborted by throwing an error.

Test

$ npm run test