undecim

Elegant APIs for undici.

Not ready for production

npm i undici undecim

Feature

• Method shortcuts (.post(), .get(), etc.)
• Body mixins helpers like fetch (.json(), .text()) before response
• Throw error if status code is not ok (>= 200 and < 300)
• Parse outgoing body (options.data) and set content-type header.
• Instances with custom defaults

Installation

npm i undecim

Usage

import un, { create } from "undecim";
// CommonJS: const un = require("undecim").default;

// Set Accept header and get response as JSON shortcut
const json = await un
  .post("https://example.com", { data: { foo: "bar" } })
  .json();

// Set Accept header and get response as text shortcut
const text = await un
  .post("https://example.com", { data: { foo: "bar" } })
  .text();

// Retrieve response as it is
const response = await un.post("https://example.com", { data: { foo: "bar" } });
console.log(response.body); // body is of type Readable & BodyMixin
console.log(response.headers);
console.log(response.statusCode);
// body mixins also available here
await response.text();
await response.json();

// Create a new instance of undecim
const un = create(options);

APIs

un(url[, options])

Make a HTTP request to url with an optional options.

un.(url[, options])

There are methods provided as shortcuts to set HTTP methods.

• un.get(url[, options])
• un.post(url[, options])
• un.put(url[, options])
• un.delete(url[, options])
• un.patch(url[, options])

options

The same with options in undici.request with following additions.

options.data

Set the approriate body for the request based on data. In some cases, content-type will be set automatically if not provided.

This can be one of the following:

• string
• URLSearchParams. Content Type will be application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
• Buffer
• other object. Content Type will be application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

create(defaults)

Create a new instance with specific defaults. These default will be merged into each of its requests' options.

If default.origin is defined, a Client is created. Requests made then should match the origin.

Error handling

Only difference in undecim is that it also throws HTTPStatusError when status code is not >= 200 and < 300.

Errors thrown by undici is also augmented with additional properties:

• response (non-enumerable) the original response object (including body mixins). Only available if there is no undici error.
• options: the request options
• url: the request URL

import { UndecimError } from "undecim";

try {
  const response = await un("https://example.com");
  // or
  const response = await un("https://example.com").json();
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof UndecimError) {
    console.log(err.options);
    console.log(err.url);
    // Not always available
    if (err.response) {
      console.log(err.response.statusCode);
      console.log(err.response.headers);
      console.log(await err.response.text());
    }
  } else {
    // some other handling
  }
}

License

MIT