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preq 
Yet another promising request wrapper.
Features
- ES6
Promise-based, using the excellent bluebird by default - Robustness: retry, timeout and connect timeout support
- Proper error handling: All errors (incl. HTTP responses with code >= 400)
throw exceptions, and can be caught with
Promise.catch(). This ensures that all errors are handled, and often cleans up the code by clearly separating out error handling. TheHTTPErrorinstance has all the properties of a normal response.
Installation
npm install preq
Usage
var preq = require('preq');
return preq.get({ // or preq.request({ method: 'get', .. })
uri: 'http://google.com/',
headers: {
'x-foo': 'bar'
},
query: {
q: 'foo'
},
// body for POSTs or PUTs, can be object (serialized to JSON), Buffer or String
})
.then(function(res) {
/**
* {
* status: 200,
* headers: {
* date: 'Sat, 21 Feb 2015 01:47:40 GMT' // , ...
* },
* body: '<!doctype html>...</html>' // or object if json
* }
*/
})
.catch(function(err) {
// Any response with HTTP status >= 400
// err is HTTPError with same properties as response above
});
preq-specific parameters / methods
preq passes through most options directly to
request, so see its documentation for
advanced options.
Additionally, it defines or modifies these request options:
method: Lowercase HTTP verbs. Automatically set by the verb methods (preq.get(),.post()etc).uri: useuri, noturl.query: query string parametersbody:String,BufferorObject. If an object is supplied, the serialization depends on thecontent-typeheader. Supported:application/json.*multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
retries: Maximum number of retries. Exponential back-off is used between retries.timeout: Total request timeout.connectTimeout: Maximum time to establish a TCP connection to the host, in ms. Useful to quickly fail if a node is unreachable at the network level, without waiting for the fulltimeoutduration.
Also see the tests for usage examples.
FAQs
Yet another promising request wrapper
We found that preq demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 27 Mar 2015
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