swatchjs-batch

An extension for swatchjs to provide a method to invoke multiple API methods at once.

Quick start

All you have to do is add a few lines of code to your existing swatchjs code. The sample below shows how to use the swatchjs-batch with the simple API from the swatchjs's README file:

const swatch = require('swatchjs');
const batch = require('swatchjs-batch'); // add this line

const api = {
    "numbers.add": (a, b) => Number(a) + Number(b),
    "numbers.sub": (a, b) => Number(a) - Number(b),
};

const model = swatch(api);
const batchModel = swatch({'batch': batch(model)}); // add this line
const extendedModel = model.concat(batchModel); // optionally add this line

Example

const swatch = require('swatchjs');
const batch = require('swatchjs-batch');

const api = {
    "getDistance": (velocity, time) => velocity * time,
};

const model = swatch(api);
const batchFunction = batch(model);

const results = batchFunction([
   {
       method: 'getDistance',
       args: {
           velocity: 60,
           time: 2
       },
   },
   {
       method: 'getDistance',
       args: {
           velocity: 50,
           time: 1.5
       },
   },
]);

// results is:
// [
//     {
//         ok: true,
//         result: 120
//     },
//     {
//         ok: true,
//         result: 75
//     }
// ]

API reference

The batch function

const batch = require('swatchjs-batch');

const augmentedModel = batch(model, name);

Loading this library will result in a function (batch in the example above) which when called will return a handler that can be used with the swatch function to produce a model for the API method that allows all other methods to be invoked in a single network call.

The function exposed by the library takes the following parameters:

| Parameter | Required | Description |:--- |:--- |:--- | model | Yes | A model produced by by the swatch function (see swatchjs) | name | No | The name of the API method. Defaults to batch.

Return value

The batch method returns a handler that takes the following parameters:

| Parameter | Required | Description |:--- |:--- |:--- |ops | Yes | An array of operations to batch. |ops[idx].method | Yes | The method name. |ops[idx].args | Yes | An object with the arguments to pass to the method.

The methods are not guaranteed to be executed in any particular order, and they succeed or fail independently.

The response will be an array of responses, where each response has the following properties:

| Property | Present | Description |:--- |:--- |:--- |ok | Always | true if the method succeed, false otherwise. |result | Sometimes | Value returned by method handler if it succeeded and returned anything other than undefined. |error | Sometimes | Exception thrown by method handler when it failed.

Runtime errors

The following errors will be generated during runtime (when invoking the handler):

| Error | Error scope | Description |:--- |:--- |:--- |invalid_request | Handler | ops parameter was not valid. |invalid_method | Operation | Specified method was not declared in the API.

Developers

Coding Style

This project follows the AirBnB Javascript Coding Guidelines using ESLint settings.