@taquito/http-utils

Taquito HTTP Utilities package

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@taquito/http-utils is an npm package that provides developers with http functionality for Taquito.

General Information

The HttpBackend class contains a createRequest method which accepts options to be passed for the HTTP request (url, method, timeout, json, query, headers, mimeType). This method will help users interact with the RPC with a more familiar HTTP format.

Parameters for createRequest:

url(string): RPC URL pointing to the Tezos node method(string): HTTP method of the request timeout(number): request timeout json(boolean): Parse response into JSON when set to true; defaults to true query(object): Query that we would like to pass as an HTTP request headers(object): HTTP request header mimeType(string): Sets the MIME type of the request; see MIME types

Install

The package(s) need to be installed as follows

npm install @taquito/http-utils

Usage

Create an instance of HttpBackend and call it's member function createRequest to construct an HTTP request.

import { HttpBackend } from '@taquito/http-utils';

const httpBackend = new HttpBackend();
const response = httpBackend.createRequest<string>({
    url: `/chains/${chain}/blocks/${block}/context/contracts/${address}/script`,
    method: 'GET',
    mimeType: "text; charset=utf-8",
    json: false
});

Additional Info

See the top-level https://github.com/ecadlabs/taquito file for details on reporting issues, contributing, and versioning.

Disclaimer

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