core-functions

core-functions v2.0.9

Core functions, utilities and classes for working with Node/JavaScript primitives and built-in objects, including strings, booleans, Promises, base 64, Arrays, Objects, standard AppErrors, etc.

Currently includes:

• app-errors.js - a collection of standard application AppError subclasses for the more commonly used HTTP status codes
• arrays.js - Array utilities
• base64.js - utilities for encoding from UTF-8 to Base 64 and vice-versa
• booleans.js - boolean utilities
• numbers.js - number utilities
• objects.js - Object utilities
• promises.js - native Promise utilities
• strings.js - string utilities
• timers.js - Timer/timeout utilities

This module is exported as a Node.js module.

Installation

Using npm:

$ {sudo -H} npm i -g npm
$ npm i --save core-functions

In Node.js:

To use the string utilities

const Strings = require('core-functions/strings');

To use the number utilities

const Numbers = require('core-functions/numbers');

To use the boolean utilities

const Booleans = require('core-functions/booleans');

To use the Base 64 encoding and decoding utilities

const base64 = require('core-functions/base64');

To use the Promise utilities (as static methods on the native Promise class)

require('core-functions/promises');

To use the Promise utilities (as exported functions)

const promises = require('core-functions/promises');

To use the Object utilities

const Objects = require('core-functions/objects');

To use the Array utilities

const Arrays = require('core-functions/arrays');

To use the Timer utilities

const timers = require('core-functions/timers');

To use the standard application errors

const appErrors = require('../app-errors');
const AppError = appErrors.AppError;

// 400-series
const BadRequest = appErrors.BadRequest;
const Unauthorized = appErrors.Unauthorized;
const Forbidden = appErrors.Forbidden;
const NotFound = appErrors.NotFound;
const RequestTimeout = appErrors.RequestTimeout;
const TooManyRequests = appErrors.TooManyRequests;

// 500-series
const InternalServerError = appErrors.InternalServerError;
const BadGateway = appErrors.BadGateway;
const ServiceUnavailable = appErrors.ServiceUnavailable;
const GatewayTimeout = appErrors.GatewayTimeout;

// HTTP status codes with explicit class support and allowed to pass through to API Gateway by default
const supportedHttpStatusCodes = appErrors.supportedHttpStatusCodes;

// Error conversion functions
const toAppError = appErrors.toAppError;
const toAppErrorForApiGateway = appErrors.toAppErrorForApiGateway;

Unit tests

This module's unit tests were developed with and must be run with tape. The unit tests have been tested on Node.js v4.3.2.

See the package source for more details.

Changes

2.0.9

• Patched and changed strings.js module's stringify function:
  • To use objects' toJSON methods (if any) by default (prior versions did NOT use them at all)
  • To add an optional avoidToJSONMethods argument to determine whether to avoid using objects' toJSON methods or not (default)
  • To double-quote any string elements within an array in order to synchronize with the behaviour of JSON.stringify
  • To re-sequence the order of errors' property names when they are stringified as normal objects - in order to have an error's name as the first property, followed by its message as the second property, followed by the rest of its enumerable properties (excluding its stack property)
  • To differentiate simple references to identical objects within the object graph from true circular dependencies:
    • Simple references are now marked as [Reference: {name}], whereas the prior version marked them incorrectly as [Circular: {name}]
    • True circular dependencies are still marked as [Circular: {name}]

2.0.8

• Changed strings.js module's stringify function:
  • To handle circular dependencies in objects and arrays
  • To recursively stringify objects & their properties itself, instead of relying on JSON.stringify
  • To add an optional useToStringForErrors argument to convert Errors using their toString methods (if true) or as objects (if false), but with their message and name (but not stack) properties visible in the result
  • To add an optional quoteStrings argument to return given string values surrounded with double-quotes (if true)

2.0.7

• Change to objects.js:
  • Removed console.log only added for debugging from merge function

2.0.6

• Change to objects.js:
  • Improved merge function to handle circular, non-Directed Acyclic Graphs of objects
  • Added a copy function also able to handle non-DAGs

2.0.5

• Change to objects.js:
  • Added a merge function

2.0.4

• Change to strings.js:
  • Added an nthIndexOf function that finds index of nth occurrence of a search value in a string

2.0.3

• Change to promises.js:
  • Added an every function that accepts multiple promises and returns a single promise that returns a list of either a result or an error for each and every one of the given promises

2.0.2

• Changes to promises.js:
  • Minor patch for isPromise to survive undefined and null
  • Added isArrayOfPromises function to check if a result is an array of promises
  • Added allOrOne function to transform a result into a single promise using Promise.all, the promise-result or Promise.resolve
  • Changed implementation of Promise.try to use new Promise.allOrOne
  • Added unit tests for allOrOne & isArrayOfPromises and more tests for try

2.0.1

• Replaced all x instanceof Array checks with safer Array.isArray(x)

2.0.0

• Removed unnecessary functions.js module
• Patches to testing.js checkMethodEqual and checkMethodOkNotOk functions to show method prefixes properly

1.2.0

• strings:
  • Improvements to stringify function to better handle functions and arrays
• promises:
  • Added isPromise function
  • Added optional cancellable argument to delay function to enable cancellation of delay's timeout
• Added new modules:
  • app-errors
  • arrays
  • objects
  • timers
• Added unit tests for existing and new functions and classes.

1.1.1

• Simple increment of version number to fix issue of 1.1.0 tag pointing to wrong version

1.1.0

• strings: Added trimOrEmpty function
• strings: Renamed safeTrim function to trim and changed safeTrim to an alias for trim