find-servers-bosta

Simple package for checking the availability of a given list of servers with priority

Quickstart

npm install find-servers-bosta

Then get your list of servers with specific priority for each and check them

Version 1 :

const findServer = require('find-servers-bosta')

let servers = [
  {
    "url": "http://doesNotExist.bosta.co",
    "priority": 1
  },
  {
    "url": "http://bosta.co",
    "priority": 7
  },
  {
    "url": "http://offline.bosta.co",
    "priority": 2
  },
  {
    "url": "http://google.com",
    "priority": 4
  }
]

findServer(servers).then(res => {
  console.log(res)
})
.catch(err => {
  console.log(err)
})

findServer Function takes 2 parameters

• servers a list of servers and if not given it will bet initialized as an empty array
• timeout(optional) to deteremine the time period allowed for a request to wait for a response and if it is not given it will be initialized with value of 5000 (5 secs)

The function return a promise which should be :

• Resolved with the least priorty server
• Rejected when there are no available servers
• Note that the list of servers should be given in the same above format or it will through validation errors

Testing

npm i -g mocha
npm test