Halogen Resource

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Adds AJAX HTTP interactions to Halogen Models.

Intro

Adds a 'fetch' method for loading a Hypermedia resource from a server, and a 'execute' method for serialising and sending Command data to a server.

Installation

Install with npm(1):

$ npm install --save halogen-resource

Tests

If you don't already have grunt..

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

After cloning the repo..

$ npm install

To run the tests

$ npm test

Usage

Instead of ...

var Model = require('halogen-model').Model;

do...

var Model = require('halogen-resource').Resource;

// or if you prefer to keep them cleanly separate.. 

var Resource = require('halogen-resource').Resource;

API

.fetch()

Assuming your model has a self href, it will load the hypermedia and fire a sync event, as per normal Backbone. Parameters in the callback are the model and the request response.

.execute( "command name" )

If you're using the '_commands' functionality, calling .execute will seralise the command's properties and PUT/POST/DELETE etc to the specified HREF.

HTTP error codes 201, 200 and 202 are considered successful. ANything else counts as an error. On success, a .fetch() automatically happens. If it's an error this doesn't happen.

It will also trigger executed or execution-failed which is passed the command that failed. This should bubble up to the parent model.

.execute( "command name", callback )

If you pass a callback, instead of an automatic .fetch() happening your callback is called so you can manually decide whether or not to resync.

The parameters passed to the callback are err and response. 201, 200 and 202 are considered successful. ANything else counts as an error.

It will also trigger executed or execution-failed, which is passed the command that failed.

And this gives you Halogen Models with the HTTP extensions. This module is badly named really. This should bubble up to the parent model.

License

MIT