A client library for connecting to a bionet server
npm install bionet-client
This is a client library for connecting to a bionet node.
To establish an unauthenticated RPC connection:
``
var bc = require('bionet-client');
bc("https://endylab.stanford.edu", function(err, done, remote) {
if(err) return console.error(err);
remote.doSomething(function(err, result) {
if(err) return console.error(err);
console.log("the server said:", result);
done(); // close RPC connection
});
});
`
To establish an authenticated RPC connection simply supply username and password:
`
bc("https://endylab.stanford.edu", {
username: 'myuser',
password: 'mypassword'
}, function(err, done, remote, userData, token) {
// note that we're now receving the extra arguments:
// * userData: object containing info about logged-in user
// * token: authentication token
});
``
The connection is established using rpc-multistream which allows calling remote synchronous functions that return streams and functions with asynchronous callbacks that give streams as arguments.
The authentication is handled by rpc-multiauth.
Beware that testing requires a running bionet node to test against.
Copyright 2016-2018 BioBricks Foundation
License: AGPLv3