json2rest

Little node.js tool that reads local JSON files and POSTs them to a RESTful interface.

The main usage is in combination with DrowsyDromedary and aims to provide a easy way to upload large JSON arrays from files into a MongoDB collection.

Please note that the original DrowsyDromedary was written by Matt Zukowski and can be found here: https://github.com/zuk/DrowsyDromedary

Copyright and license

This software is available under the GPL v2.0 license (see license file in this repo for details)

Copyright (C) 2015 Armin Krauss

Installation

git clone https://github.com/educoder/json2rest.git
cd json2rest
npm install

Usage

Against a server using HTTPS

cd json2rest
node app.js pathtodrowsy/databasename/collection path/to/data.json drowsy.url.at.yourdomain.com 443 user:password

Against a local drowsy instance

cd json2rest
node app.js hampshire-apps/testing path/to/data.json localhost 9292

Please note that the first two parameters are required and the last three are optional (no auth, localhost, 8000).

Parameter breakdown

1. The path part of the URL not the domain (On DrowsyDromedary this is usually database/collection or path/to/drowsy/database/collection)
2. path to and name of json file to read the data from (must be an Array)
3. domain part of the URL (could be anything with subdomains and such like drowsy.yourdomain.com or just yourdomain.com if that is serving Drowsy or Drowsy is under that domain but a certain path. Your choice here)
4. Port (should be 443 since there is no reason to take to a REST interface without SSL, especially considering that BasicAuth without SSL is 100% insecure)
5. BasicAuth username and password (highly recommend to activate BasicAuth on your Drowsy instance or the world is your guest)