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REST Wrapper

This package implements methods creating JavaScript proxy objects to JSON REST APIs from definition files in a simple JSON format. A number of reference definitions are also included.

Usage

First install the package via npm:

npm install git+https://github.com/olegp/restwrapper.git

To use the package in your project:

var generate = require('restwrapper').generate;
var api = {
  "feed/{feed}": ["GET"]
};
var ff = generate("http://friendfeed-api.com/v2/", api);
console.log(ff.getFeed("oleg"));

The generate method performs a one way mapping from the API definition to a proxy object. The methods on the proxy objects are defined as follows:

• the first component of the name is the HTTP method used in lower case, e.g. get, post, put, delete
• subsequent components are the fixed components extracted from the API endpoint URL with the first character in caps, e.g. Feed
• the method accepts the API endpoint URL variable components as parameters in the same order that they appear in the URL, e.g. in the example above "oleg" maps to "{feed}"
• two additional optional parameters can be passed after the URL parameters, the request parameters object and the request headers object, e.g. ff.getFeed("oleg", {start: 10}, {"User-Agent": "restwrapper"})

If you use the same request parameters or HTTP headers for all API calls, you can pass them in as additional optional parameters to the generate call. These will be used by default when calling any of the proxy methods, but could still be explicitly overridden.

The following environments are supported:

• server side synchronous usage on Node.js (via Common Node), RingoJS and other CommonJS compatible implementations
• server side asynchronous usage on Node.js with results and error passed into a callback (work in progress)
• command line usage via a REPL (work in progress)
• client side usage via a proxy running on the server (work in progress)

A number of ready made API definitions are included in the apis directory. To use them directly, you can do the following:

var ff = require('restwrapper').api('friendfeed');

Contributing

Contributions to this project in the form of new API definitions are very welcome. Please fork the project, add your definition file to the apis directory and send a pull request.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Oleg Podsechin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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