request-json

About

Request is a great client for NodeJS, but if you deal only with JSON, things could be more straightforward. This lib aims to simplify Request usage for JSON only requests.

Install

Add it to your package json or run:

npm install request-json

How it works

Client = require('request-json').JsonClient
client = new Client 'http://localhost:8888/'

data = title: 'my title', content: 'my content'
client.post 'posts/', data, (err, res, body) ->
    print response.statusCode

client.get 'posts/', (err, res, body) ->
    print body.rows[0].title

data = title: "my new title"
client.put 'posts/123/', (err, res, body) ->
    print response.statusCode

client.del 'posts/123/', (err, res, body) ->
    print response.statusCode

Extra : files

data = name: "test"
client.sendFile 'attachments/', './test.png', data, (err, res, body) ->
    console.log err if err

client.saveFile 'attachments/test.png', './test-get.png', (err, res, body) ->
    console.log err if err
    resultStats = fs.statSync('./test-get.png')

Extra : basic authentication

client.setBasicAuth('john', 'secret')
client.get 'private/posts/', (err, res, body) ->
    print body.rows[0].title