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@ciscospark/http-core
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@ciscospark/http-core
Core HTTP library for the Cisco Webex JS SDK.
Install
npm install --save @ciscospark/http-core
Usage
detect(), detectSync()
Detects the filetype of the specified file.
request()
Same api as request with the following changes:
- Promise-based instead of nodeback based
- Adds an interceptors property to the options object for adding classes that intercept and modify each request
- 4XX and 5XX responses get rejected with the appropriate subclassed Error type
- Sensible defaults for our API (
{json:true}, etc)
defaults()
Curried version of request() that produces an http client with overridden defaults.
HttpError
Child of Error (by way of Exception from @ciscospark/common). Has subclassed errors for each official HTTP status code (and 429 Too Man Requests).
Maintainers
This package is maintained by Cisco Webex for Developers.
Contribute
Pull requests welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
License
Ā© 2016-2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
FAQs
Core HTTP library for the Cisco Webex
The npm package @ciscospark/http-core receives a total of 192 weekly downloads. As such, @ciscospark/http-core popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @ciscospark/http-core demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago.Ā It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 01 May 2019
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