node-jsonrequest

A simple wrapper for Node's built-in Request API. This wrapper makes it simple to use JSON endpoints by providing a Promise API that encodes and decodes JSON requests and responses and also supports compressed server responses. It also supports binary or non-JSON responses and passes the buffer back directly if they are encountered.

Installation

This module is not currently registered with NPM. In order to install, you must use the following command:

npm install git+https://github.com/unidyne/node-jsonrequest.git

Usage Example

const JSONRequest = require('node-jsonrequest');

const myResultObj = await JSONRequest({
	hostname: 'my.hostname.com',
	method: 'post',
	path: '/my/snazzy/jsonRestService',
	payload: {
		field1: 'some value',
		field2: 1298,
		myArrayField: [
			{ id: 1, name: 'object 1' },
			{ id: 2, name: 'object 2' }
		]
	},
	headers: {
		'X-Auth-Client': 'MyAuthClientID',
		'X-Auth-Token': 'MyAuthClientToken'
	}
});

console.log(myResultObj);

Options

The options object parameter supports the following options:

• hostname : Required string. This is the hostname of the server to connect to.
• port : Optional integer. The port number to send request to. Defaults to 443.
• method : Optional string. Defaults to post if a payload is specified, otherwise uses get.
• path : Required string. Path of endpoint.
• payload : Optional any. This gets JSON encoded and sent as the request body.
• headers : Optional object. This is a kvp object containing any additional headers that should be sent with the request.