gatherator

gatherator

gatherator helps you to fetch data from different resources and work with the response, in a fluently generator based way.

Installation

npm install gatherator

Getting started

If you ever wanted to fetch unlimited data from any kind of resource and format, the gatherator will be the library which makes your life easy. Out of the box we support HTTP and File resources as well as JSON and XML formated data, but you can easily create your own retrievers and parsers. After you successfully fetched your data, we also support you with the possibility to modify each single iterated value.

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Generator

createGenerator

Creates an async generator, which could be used to iterate through the whole response of your retriever. It takes some options to modify the retriever, parse the raw fetched data and transform the result in the way you will need it.

const { createGenerator, retriever: { createHttpRetriever } } = require('../index')
const generator = await createGenerator({
  uri: 'https://mock.server.com/get-data',
  retriever: createHttpRetriever({ json: true })
})

// iterate through the generator and log out the data
for await (const data of generator) {
  console.log(data)
}

Options

Option	Type	Description
uri	`{string	function}`
retriever	{function}	Provides the possibility to fetch data from the uri.
getRetrieverOptions	{function}	Will always be executed before fetching data and gives you the possibility modify the retriever options. For example raise an offset property.
parsers	{[functions]}	A list of transformers to made the raw fetched data be readable for JavaScript.
transformers	{[functions]}	A list of transformers, which will be executed on each iterated value.
...other	{*}	All other given options will be used as default retriever options, which can later be modified with the getRetrieverOptions option.

Retriever

Retriever functions provides the possibility to fetch data from the resource you want, with the technology you prefer.

createHttpRetriever

Returns a retriever function, which executes an http request with request-promise.

const { retriever: { createHttpRetriever } } = require('../index')
const retriever = createHttpRetriever() // takes optional options for the http operation

createFileRetriever

Returns a retriever function, which executes an file read with fs-extra.

const { retriever: { createFileRetriever } } = require('../index')
const retriever = createFileRetriever() // takes optional options for the file operation

Parser

Parser functions are the transformers for the raw retriever response. They will be used to transform the response to a valid JSON object.

setRootPath

Set the path to the root element we want to gather. Mostly this will be the path to a list ob objects.

const { parser: { setRootPath } } = require('../index')
setRootPath('data.list') // takes the path to the root

stringToJson

Transforms the raw HTTP response from a JSON string to a valid object.

const { parser: { stringToJson } } = require('../index')
stringToJson()

xmlToJson

Transforms the raw HTTP response from a XML string to a valid object, with xml2js.

const { parser: { xmlToJson } } = require('../index')
xmlToJson() // takes optional xml parser options

Transformer

Transformer functions helps you to prepare different modification operation, which will be executed for each element after the parsing process. The usecase for these function is just to prepare your own transformers to work with a generator.

map

Modifies the value by passing them to the given mapper function.

const { transformer: { map } } = require('../index')
const mapRenaming = map(({ name, ...other }) => ({ ...other, name: String(name).toUpperCase() }))

filter

Filters out values by the result of the given filter function.

const { transformer: { filter } } = require('../index')
const filterOutSmallNames = map(({ name }) => String(name).length >= 6)

transform

Modifies the value by passing them to the given mapper function and filters them out, if the modified value is undefined.

const { transformer: { transform } } = require('../index')
const transformUpperCaseLongWords = map(({ name, ...other }) => {
  if (String(name).length >= 6)) {
    return { ...other, name: String(name).toUpperCase() }
  }
}