openwhisk-routes - Implement routes within your OpenWhisk actions

This package allows you to implement basic routing within an OpenWhisk web action.

See also:

• OpenWhisk actions
• OpenWhisk WebActions

Example:

const routes = require('openwhisk-routes');

exports.main = routes((action) => {
  // Create a plain text response
  action.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('hello world!'));

  // Create a JSON response
  action.get('/json', (req, res) => res.json({ ok: 'get' }));

  // Use path parameters
  action.get('/params/:id', (req, res) => res.json({ id: req.params.id }));
});

Installation

npm install --save openwhisk-routes

API details

The package exposes one function which accepts another function and returns a valid OpenWhisk action. This function will be invoked during action initialisation and is called with the action instance.

const routes = require('openwhisk-routes');

exports.main = routes((action) => {
  // Defined your routes
  action.get('/', (request, response, next) => {
    next();
  })
}

Action

action is derived from the routes npm package.

Request

Properties:

• url - The actual url of the web action call.
• method - The HTTP method used to call the web action.
• params - The url-params. E.g. /:id will be available via params.id.
• query - The query string of the Url.
• wsk - The original OpenWhisk action parameters.

Response

Methods:

• header(name, value) - Add a header to the response.

• status(statuscode) - Override the default HTTP response status.

• html(htmlcontent) - Send a response with HTML content.

• json(object) - Send a response with a JSON object as content.

• send(text) - Send a response with plain text content.

• redirect(location) - Send a HTTP redirect.