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urest

v5.0.3

Published

The rest frame work from the future.

Readme

logo

Install

$ npm install urest

Basic App

const { Rest, JsonBodyParser } = require("urest");
const app = new Rest();

app.pre(JsonBodyParser.middleware());
app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send({message: 'Hello World'}));
app.post("/echo", (req, res) => res.send(req.body));

Native HTTP server

app.native().listen(8000);

AWS Lambda

exports.handle = (e, context) => app.lambda(e, context);

Google Cloud Functions

module.exports = app.gcf();

UErrors

Errors passed into the next function will be logged, then returned to the client obscured behind a unique ID.

const { UErrors } = require("urest");
const { UInternalServerError } = UErrors;

app.get("/broken", (req, res, next) => next(new UInternalServerError("This is logged")));

Response

// 500
{
    "code":"InternalServer",
    "eid":"3ccf6fadf79875f58631a8c7ecc302523b563423"
}

Log

{
    "level":500,
    "request_id":"1a376e5eb266511a35aefcc7ffad7d50aef5df40",
    "environment":"develop",
    "service": "my-service",
    "stack":"UInternalServerError: This is logged\n    at Object.UError (urest/library/UErrors.js:7:8)\n    at new <anonymous> (urest/library/UErrors.js:11:9)\n    at runHandler (urest/library/Rest.js:79:22)\n    at next (urest/library/Rest.js:87:4)\n    at IncomingMessage.req.on.on (urest/library/JsonBodyParser.js:26:6)\n    at emitNone (events.js:106:13)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:208:7)\n    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1056:12)\n    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)",
    "message":"This is logged",
    "eid":"3ccf6fadf79875f58631a8c7ecc302523b563423",
    "code":"InternalServer",
    "statusCode":500
}

Interceptors

Interceptors works in much the same way as middleware but act on the response before it is returned to the client.

GZIP Interceptor

The following example will check for the header "accept-encoding": "gzip" and will compress response bodies as fit.

const { Rest, JsonBodyParser } = require("urest");
const { Neutron } = require("urequest");
const app = new Rest();

app.int(Neutron.intercept());

app.pre(JsonBodyParser.middleware());
app.post("/echo", (req, res) => res.send(req.body));
const server = app.native().listen(1234);

Custom Interceptors

The value passed into res.send is attached as res.responseData, the following example checks for a property in the response and prevents the request if not true.

const { Rest, UErrors } = require("urest");
const { UUnauthorizedError } = UErrors;

const app = new Rest();
app.int((req, res, next) => {
   if (res.responseData.authed !== true) next(new UUnauthorizedError());
   else next();
});