Hinge - A REST API Style Abstraction Class

A simple class that handle HTTP style methods, such as GET, PUT, POST and DELETE, and binds the execution context of these to a given resource object.

Use it to build quick and dirty prototypes that store and receive data using REST methods, and hook it up to a HTTP server, and/or another server types that implement one or more of the methods.

var Hinge = require('hinge');

var api = new Hinge({
    // This will use a literal JavaScript object as the
    // storage resource. This could just as well be some
    // kind of database object. `this` within the given
    // GET-, PUT-, POST-, and DELETE functions will refer
    // to this `resource`.
    resource: {},

    // Will handle GET requests send to the API.
    GET: function (uri, query, done) {
        if (uri in this) {
            done(null, this[uri]);
        }
        else {
            done('404');
        }
    },

    // Will handle POST requests send to the API.
    // The data in the POST at PUT handlers could be a buffer,
    // a stream, or something third, instead of a string.
    POST: function (uri, data, done) {
        this[uri] = data.toString();
        done(null, this[uri]);
    },

    PUT: function (uri, data, done) {
        this[uri] = data.toString();
        done(null, this[uri]);
    },

    // Will handle DELETE requests send to the API.
    DELETE: function (uri, done) {
        delete this[uri];
        done(null);
    }
});

Notice. This library will not handle any type of security--You would have to take care of that yourself. For now it should only be used for writing quick and dirty prototypes.

Todo

• The test suit hasn't got full coverage.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Martin Gausby

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