postmen

Introduction

Node.js SDK for Postmen API. For problems and suggestions please open GitHub issue

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • NPM Installation
• Quick Start
• class Postmen
  • Postmen(api_key, region, config
  • create(path, input, config, callback)
  • get(path, input, config, callback)
  • Proxy methods of GET,POST,PUT,DELETE
  • Chainable Function
• Promise
• Rate Limiter
• Retry Policy
• Examples
  • Full list
  • How to run
  • Navigation table
• Testing
• License

Installation

NPM installation

npm install postmen

Quick Start

In order to get API key refer to the documentation.

'use strict';

const Postmen = require('postmen');
// TODO key of the Postmen instance
let api_key = 'api-key',
// TODO region of the Postmen instance
let region = 'sandbox';

let postmen = Postmen(api_key, region);

// get all labels by using callback
postmen.get('/labels', function (err, result) {
	if (err) {
		console.log(err);
	} else {
		console.log(result);
	}
});

// get all labels by using promise
postmen.get('/labels').then(function (result) {
		console.log(result);
}).catch(function (err) {
    console.log(err);
});

// get all labels by using promise with chainable function
postmen.useApiKey('ANOTHER_API_KEY').setRetry(false).get('/labels').then(function (result) {
    console.log(result);
}).catch(function (err) {
    console.log(err);
});

// get a particular  labels
postmen.get('/rates/put-your-label-id-here', function (err, result) {
	if (err) {
		console.log(err);
	} else {
		console.log(result);
	}
});

class Postmen

Postmen(api_key, region, config)

Initiate Postmen SDK object. In order to get API key and choose a region refer to the documentation.

| Argument | Required | Type | Default | Description | |----------------------|----------|---------|---------|--------------------------------------------------------------------| | api_key | YES | string | N/A | API key | | region | YES | string | N/A | API region (sandbox, production) | | config | NO | object | null | Options | | config['endpoint'] | — | string | null | Custom URL API endpoint | | config['retry'] | — | boolean | true | override default retry if set, see Retry policy | | config['rate'] | — | boolean | true | Wait before API call if rate limit exceeded or retry on 429 error | | config['raw'] | — | boolean | false | To return API response as a raw string | | config['proxy'] | — | string | null | Proxy credentials |

create(path, input, config, callback)

Creates postmen api object

| Argument | Required | Type | Default | Description | |-------------------|----------|----------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | path | YES | string | N/A | start with /, see available path here key | | input | YES | object | null | object of request config | | input['body'] | YES | string | null | POST body | | input['query'] | NO | object | null | query object | | config | NO | object | null | object of request config | | config['retry'] | NO | boolean | true | override default retry if set, see Retry policy | | config['raw'] | NO | boolean | false | if true, return result as string, else return as object | | callback | NO | function | N/A | the callback to handle error and result, the result is the response body of the request |

API Docs:

• POST /rates
• POST /labels
• POST /manifests
• POST /cancel-labels
• POST /address-validations

Examples:

• rates_create.js
• labels_create.js
• manifests_create.js
• cancel_labels_create.js
• address_validation_create.js

get(path, input, config,callback)

Get Postmen API objects (list or a single objects).

| Argument | Required | Type | Default | Description | |-------------------|----------|----------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | path | YES | string | N/A | start with /, see available path here key | | input | NO | object | null | object of request config | | input['body'] | NO | string | null | POST body | | input['query'] | NO | object | null | query object or string | | config | NO | object | null | object of request config | | config['retry'] | NO | boolean | true | override default retry if set, see Retry policy | | config['raw'] | NO | boolean | false | if true, return result as string, else return as object | | callback | NO | function | N/A | the callback to handle error and result, the result is the response body of the request |

postmen.get( '/path/label-id', callback);
// is equivalent to
postmen.call('GET', '/path/label-id', input, config, callback);

postmen.get( '/path', input, config, callback);
// is equivalent to
postmen.call('GET', '/path', input, config, callback);

API Docs:

• GET /rates
• GET /rates/:id
• GET /labels
• GET /labels/:id
• GET /manifests
• GET /manifests/:id
• GET /cancel-labels
• GET /cancel-labels/:id

Examples:

• rates_retrieve.js
• labels_retrieve.js
• manifests_retrieve.js
• cancel_labels_retrieve.js

Proxy Method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

There are also interface GET, POST, PUT, DELETE which are proxy to Postmen.call(...)

postmen.call('GET', '/path', input, config, callback);
// is equivalent to
postmen.GET('/path', input, config, callback);

// So as `POST`, `PUT` and `DELETE`

Chainable Function

Using chainable function to config now is accepted. Now postmen instance has these chainable function:

• useApiKey() temporarily use an api_key to make request
• setProxy() overwrite postmen proxy property
• setRetry() overwrite postmen retry property
• setRaw() overwrite postmen raw property

postmen.useApiKey('ANOTHER_API_KEY').get('labels').then();
// is equivalent to
let input = {};
let config = {
	api_key: 'ANOTHER_API_KEY'
}
postmen.get('labels', input, config).then();

Promise:

Only create(path, config, callback) and get(path, config, callback) function support promise.

• create example
• get example.

Rate Limiter:

To understand Postmen rate limit policy, please see limit session in https://docs.postmen.com/ratelimit.html

You can get the recent rate limit by postmen.rate_limit. Initially all value is {}.

let postmen = Postmen('YOUR_API_KEY', 'region');
console.log(postmen.rate_limit);

// console output
// {}

After making an API call, it will be set.

postmen.get('/labels', function (err, result) {
	console.log(postmen.rate_limit);
});

// console output
// { 'YOUR_API-KEY' : { limit: 600, remaining: 599, reset: 1453281417 } }

When the API response with 429 Too Many request error

• if rate is true, it wont throw, will delay the job, retry when the rate limit is reset.
• if rate is false, it will return 429 Too Many request error to the callback

Retry policy

If API error is retryable, SDK will wait for delay and retry. Delay starts from 1 second. After each try, delay time is doubled. Maximum number of attempts is 5.

You can set the retry flag

• in constructor as default retry flag
• specify in config of get() or create() method

Examples

Full list

All examples avalible listed in the table below.

| File | Description | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------| | rates_create.js | rates object creation | | rates_retrieve.js | rates object(s) retrieve | | labels_create.js | labels object creation | | labels_retrieve.js | labels object(s) retrieve | | manifests_create.js | manifests object creation | | manifests_retrieve.js | manifests object(s) retrieve | | cancel_labels_create.js | cancel-labels object creation | | cancel_labels_retrieve.js | cancel-labels object(s) retrieve | | address_validation_create.js | address_validation object(s) creation | | proxy.js | Proxy usage | | error.js | Avalible ways to catch/get errors | | response.js | Avalible output types |

How to run

Download the source code, go to examples directory.

Put your API key and region to credentials.js

Check the file you want to run before run. Some require you to set additional variables.

Navigation table

For each API method SDK provides Node.js wrapper. Use the table below to find SDK method and example that match your need.

| Model \ Action | create | get all | get by id | |----------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | rates | .create('/rates', input, config, callback) | .get('/rates', input, config, callback) | .get('rates/rate-id-here', input, config, callback) | | labels | .create('/labels', input, config, callback) | .get('/labels', input, config, callback)) | .get('/labels/label-id-here', input, config, callback)) | | manifest | .create('/manifest', input, config, callback) | .get('/manifest', input, config, callback) | .get('/manifest/manifest-id-here', input, config, callback) | | cancel-labels | .create('/cancel-labels', input, config, callback) | .get('/cancel-labels', input, config, callback) | .get('/cancel-labels/cancel-labels-id-here', input, config, callback) | | address-validations| .create('/address-validations', input, config, callback) | |

Testing

mocha --recursive

License

Released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.