node-callapi

Node Call API

Making api call with node-fetch, with middleware.

Basic usage

const Caller = require('node-callapi');
const caller = new Caller(setting);

caller.call(endpoint, options)

Constructor

new Caller(options);

options.middlewares

middlewares will be applied after every request finished.

Middleware

a middleware is an async function, it recevied an object. and returns a object that has the shape same as received data.

async function middleware(data) {
  const {
    // fetch options
    fetchOptions,

    // the endpoint
    url,

    // response, if no response, it will be null
    response,

    // the request duration
    duration,

    // if any error occured, it will be an Error instance
    error,

    // the result data, it will be one of [array, object, string, null]
    data,
  } = data;
  // do something
  return result;
}

data.error

name	description
error.status	the response status
error.fetchOptions	the fetch options
error.duration	the time of the fetch request processing time
error.data	the data from server, it will parsed even if request failed
error.response	the full response object
error.url	the fetch url

api

call(url, options)

url should use absolute url.

it will return the parsed result.

options.method(optional)

request method. should be one of ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH', 'DELETE', 'OPTIONS', 'TRACE', 'HEAD', 'CONNECT'].

options.data

send data to server if use 'POST', 'PUT' method.

options.middlewares

append middlewares. should be a valid middleware.

options.headers

append headers. should be an key-value object.