easy-api-request

Request wrapper providing header and cookie forwarding with express.
Will add the request creation function to the 'request' object.

Usage

Configure the wrapper for a specific api

var apiRequest = require('easy-api-request');
apiRequest.create({
name: 'testAPI',
config: {
url: 'http://example.com', // baseUrl for requests

internal: true, //If true then all x- headers are forwarded

jSend: true, //If we are expecting jSend formatted response

headers: [], //Headers we want to proxy from request object

cookies: [], //Cookies we want to proxy from request object

replyCookies: [], //Cookies we want to proxy from reply

opts: {}, //Options for request.defaults

cleanLogData: Function // Gets the opts object before request is made
// and should return a cloned/masked object
// by default masks password and cc names
}
});

A function will be added to the request object under the specified name, that function takes one boolean parameter, which
specifies if the returned request wrapper should return the stream object or not upon request.

Examples of use

// As promise
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
req.testAPI()
.get('/cool/path')
.then(function (resp) {
res.json(resp);
})
.catch(function (err) {
res.json(err);
});
});

// With callback
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
req.testAPI().get('/cool/path', function (err, resp) {
if(err) {
console.error(err);
}
res.json(err || resp);
});
});

// As stream
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
req.testAPI(true).get('/cool/path').pipe(res);
});

// With custom requestOpts
app.get('/', function (req, res) {

req.testAPI(false, {
headers: {
'x-custom-path': req.path
}
})
.get('/cool/path')
.then(function (resp) {
res.json(resp);
})
.catch(function (err) {
res.json(err);
});
});

License

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Karl Düüna

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