hateaos

A library to facilitate Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State in Node

Simple guide for getting started. More coming soon...

``javascript
var hateoas = require("hateoas")({baseUrl: "http://localhost:3000"});

hateoas.registerLinkHandler("root", function() {
return {
"self": "/",
"users": "/users"
};
}

hateoas.registerLinkHandler("user", function(user) {
var links = {
"self": "/users/" + user.id,
};

if (isAdmin()) {
links["delete"] = "/users/" + user.id
}

return links;
});

hateoas.registerCollectionLinkHandler("user", function(userCollection) {
var links = {
"self": "/users"
};

if (isAdmin() {
links["create"] = "/users"
}

return links;
});

hateoas.link("user", {id: 123});
/*
{
id: 123,
links: {
self: "http://localhost:3000/users/123",
delete: "http://localhost:3000/users/123"
}
}
*/


hateoas.link("user", [{id: 123}]);
/*
{
data: [
{
id: 123,
links: {
self: "http://localhost:3000/users/123",
delete: "http://localhost:3000/users/123"
}
}
],
links: {
self: "http://localhost:3000/users",
create: "http://localhost:3000/users"
}
*/

``