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hyperrequest

A wrapper arround hyperquest to handle the results

Install

  npm install hyperrequest

Usage

Basic example

var hrrequest = require( "hyperrequest" );

hrrequest( { url: "http://www.exapme.com" }, function( err, resp ){
    /*handle response*/
});

Detailed example

var hrrequest = require( "hyperrequest" );

var opts = {
    url: "http://www.myapi.com/path/api/v1", // The path to request including `http://`. Alternative keys : `uri` or `path`
    method: "POST", // http method
    headers: { // http headers object
        "Content-type": "application/json"
    },
    json: { "foo": 23, "bar": [ 42, "buzz" ] }, // Only relevant for method `POST, `PUT` or `PATCH`. This will be stringified before transmission.
    body: "ABC" // // Only relevant if `json` is not defined and for method `POST, `PUT` or `PATCH`.
};

hrrequest( opts, function( err, resp ){
    if( err ){
        // handle the error
        return
    }
    // the result is a regular node-js response object.
    console.log( resp.body ) // The result will be placed inside `body`. If the content-type is `application/json` it tries to parse it and returns the parsed data
    
});

Options

url : ( String required ) The path to request including http://. Alternative keys : uri or path
method : ( String optional: default = GET; ) The http method
headers : ( Object optional ) The http headers object
json : ( Any optional ) JSON data to send. This will be stringified and used as body before transmission. Only relevant for method POST, PUTorPATCH`.
body : ( String|Buffer optional ) Body data to send. Only relevant if json is not defined and for method POST, PUTorPATCH`.
auth : ( Object optional ) Add an basic header authentication.
- auth.(user|username) : ( String ) The username for the authentication.
- auth.(pass|password) : ( String ) The password for the authentication.

Todos

more Tests ;-)

Release History

Version	Date	Description
0.1.4	2017-09-11	fixed dev dependency version
0.1.3	2017-09-11	fixed another bug when receiving an empty or defect content-type;
0.1.2	2017-01-19	fixed bug when receiving no content-type; Updated and optimized dev env.
0.1.1	2016-05-25	fixed handling of empty content 204
0.1.0	2016-05-12	Added option to use basic auth. Updated dependencies and dev environment with docker tests for a list of node versions, removed Code docs from repository
0.0.4	2015-12-01	removed deprecated dependency; added code docs
0.0.3	2015-11-30	Bugfixes; Optimizations; Added tests; Added docs
0.0.2	2015-11-27	Small bugfix
0.0.1	2015-11-27	Initial commit

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