heroku-client

heroku-client

A wrapper around the v3 Heroku API.

Install

$ npm install heroku-client --save

Documentation

Docs are auto-generated and live in the docs directory.

Usage

heroku-client works by providing functions that return proxy objects for interacting with different resources through the Heroku API.

To begin, require the Heroku module and create a client, passing in an API token:

var Heroku = require('heroku-client'),
    heroku = new Heroku({ token: process.env.HEROKU_API_TOKEN });

The simplest example is listing a user's apps. First, we call heroku.apps(), which returns a proxy object to the /apps endpoint, then we call list() to actually perform the API call:

heroku.apps().list(function (err, apps) {
  // `apps` is a parsed JSON response from the API
});

The advantage of using proxy objects is that they are reusable. Let's get the info for the user's app "my-app", get the dynos for the app, and remove a collaborator:

var app = heroku.apps('my-app');

app.info(function (err, app) {
  // Details about the `app`
});

app.dynos().list(function (err, dynos) {
  // List of the app's `dynos`
});

app.collaborators('[e-mail]').delete(function (err, collaborator) {
  // The `collaborator` has been removed unless `err`
});

Requests that require a body are easy, as well. Let's add a collaborator to the user's app "another-app":

var app  = heroku.apps('another-app'),
    user = { email: '[e-mail]' };

app.collaborators().create({ user: user }, function (err, collaborator) {
  // `collaborator` is the newly added collaborator unless `err`
});

Generic Requests

heroku-client has get, post, patch, and delete functions which can make requests with the specified HTTP method to any endpoint:

heroku.get('/apps', function (err, apps) {
});

// Request body is optional on both `post` and `patch`
heroku.post('/apps', function (err, app) {
});

heroku.post('/apps', { name: 'my-new-app' }, function (err, app) {
});

heroku.patch('/apps/my-app', { name: 'my-renamed-app' }, function (err, app) {
});

heroku.delete('/apps/my-old-app', function (err, app) {
});

There is also an even more generic request function that can accept many more options:

heroku.request({
  method: 'GET',
  path: '/apps',
  headers: {
    'Foo': 'Bar'
  }
}, function (err, responseBody) {
});

Promises

heroku-client works with Node-style callbacks, but also implements promises with the Q library.

var q = require('q');

// Fetches dynos for all of my apps.
heroku.apps().list().then(function (apps) {

  return q.all(apps.map(function (app) {
    return heroku.apps(app.name).dynos().list();
  }));

}).then(function (dynos) {

  console.log(dynos);

});

Caching

heroku-client performs caching by creating a memcached client using memjs. See the memjs repo for environment-specific configuration instructions and details.

heroku-client will cache any response from the Heroku API that comes with an ETag header, and each response is cached individually (i.e. even though the client might make multiple calls for a user's apps and then aggregate them into a single JSON array, each required API call is individually cached). For each API request it performs, heroku-client sends an If-None-Match header if there is a cached response for the API request. If API returns a 304 response code, heroku-client returns the cached response. Otherwise, it writes the new API response to the cache and returns that.

To tell heroku-client to perform caching, call the configure function:

var Heroku = require('heroku').configure({ cache: true });

This requires a MEMCACHIER_SERVERS environment variable, as well as a HEROKU_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_SECRET environment variable that heroku-client uses to build cache keys and encrypt cache contents.

HEROKU_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_SECRET should be a long, random string of characters. heroku-client includes bin/secret as one way of generating values for this variable. Do not publish this secret or commit it to source control. If it's compromised, flush your memcache and generate a new encryption secret.

MEMCACHIER_SERVERS can be a single hostname:port memache address, or a comma-separated list of memcache addresses, e.g. example.com:11211,example.net:11211. Note that while the environment variable that memjs looks for is named for the MemCachier service it was originally built for, it will work with any memcache server that speaks the binary protocol.

Contributing

Updating resources

To fetch the latest schema, generate documentation, and run the tests:

$ bin/update

Inspect your changes, and bump the version number accordingly when cutting a release.

Generating documentation

Documentation for heroku-client is auto-generated from the resources manifest. Docs are generated like so:

$ bin/docs

Generating docs also runs a cursory test, ensuring that every documented function is a function that can be called.

Running tests

heroku-client uses jasmine-node for tests:

$ npm test