resource-agent

Node module to create simple API clients for endpoints that expose a common REST-like interface.

Install

$ npm install resource-agent

Usage

Create a "user" resource and do some basic http "CRUD" operations.

var resource = require('resource');

// create a new "users" instance

var users = resource('/users');

// GET /users

users.all(function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});


// GET /users?tag=awesome

users.all({ tag: 'whatever' }, function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});


// GET /users/123456789

users.one(123456789, function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});


// POST /users

users.create({
  name: 'garrett',
  tag: 'whatever'
}, function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});


// PUT /users/123456789

users.update(123456789, {
  tag: 'stuff'
}, function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});


// DELETE /users/123456789

users.remove(123456789, function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});

Custom Methods

Now not all methods that are provided implicity will get you what you need. For that, you can pass an additional parameter to the constructor to "decorate" the resource prototype.

var users = resource('/users', {
  tagged: function(value, fn){
    return this.all({ tagged: value }, fn); 
  }
});

// GET /users?tagged=awesome

users.tagged('awesome', function(err, result){
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('%j', result);
});

Options

You can set global options on the constructor it self. However, not that it will populate the value to all instances. Otherwise, just pass it into the constructor.

var resource = require('resource-agent');

resource.host = 'http://localhost:3000';

resource.headers = {
  secret: 'top-secret-header'
};

TODO

• tests
• response parsing

License

MIT