Restful Object

This is a project to create a nice way to get some resource out of a Rest API. The idea is to use a syntax that seems closer to the way one is used to retrieve resources from, say, an object.

e.g. :

const myPosts = await api.users(1).posts.get()

When instantiated, any fetching library can be used, but in the example.js you will see a simple implementation with node-fetch (isomorphic with window.fetch) and a simple server that returns as response a JSON object with url, set as the path of the request, and method, as the method.

const api = new RecursiveProxy(`http://localhost:3000`, {})

const results = api
  .author(1)
  .posts(3)
  .get()
  .then(res => console.log(res))
// { url: '/author/1/posts/3', method: 'GET' }

The third argument when instantiated is wheter if there should be a cache. The cache is (currently) as naive as possible: if a GET request is made, the resulting json will be saved with the time of request in order to be (if and when implemented) invalidated.

const api = new RecursiveProxy(`http://localhost:3000`, {}, true)

const start = async () => {
  await api.author(1).get() // this will actually fetch and set cache
  await api.author(1).get() // this will retrieve from cache
  await api.author(1).post() // this will fetch and NOT cache anything
  console.log(api._cache) // the map with the cache
}