A wrapper around the v3 Heroku API.
$ npm install heroku-client --save
Docs are auto-generated and live in the docs directory.
heroku-client
works by providing functions that return proxy objects for
interacting with different resources through the Heroku API.
To begin, require the Heroku module and create a client, passing in an API token:
var Heroku = require('heroku-client'),
heroku = new Heroku({ token: process.env.HEROKU_API_TOKEN });
The simplest example is listing a user's apps. First, we call heroku.apps()
,
which returns a proxy object to the /apps endpoint, then we call list()
to
actually perform the API call:
heroku.apps().list(function (err, apps) {
// `apps` is a parsed JSON response from the API
});
The advantage of using proxy objects is that they are reusable. Let's get the info for the user's app "my-app", get the dynos for the app, and remove a collaborator:
var app = heroku.apps('my-app');
app.info(function (err, app) {
// Details about the `app`
});
app.dynos().list(function (err, dynos) {
// List of the app's `dynos`
});
app.collaborators('user@example.com').delete(function (err, collaborator) {
// The `collaborator` has been removed unless `err`
});
Requests that require a body are easy, as well. Let's add a collaborator to the user's app "another-app":
var app = heroku.apps('another-app'),
user = { email: 'new-user@example.com' };
app.collaborators().create({ user: user }, function (err, collaborator) {
// `collaborator` is the newly added collaborator unless `err`
});
heroku-client has get
, post
, patch
, and delete
functions which can make
requests with the specified HTTP method to any endpoint:
heroku.get('/apps', function (err, apps) {
});
// Request body is optional on both `post` and `patch`
heroku.post('/apps', function (err, app) {
});
heroku.post('/apps', { name: 'my-new-app' }, function (err, app) {
});
heroku.patch('/apps/my-app', { name: 'my-renamed-app' }, function (err, app) {
});
heroku.delete('/apps/my-old-app', function (err, app) {
});
There is also an even more generic request
function that can accept many more
options:
heroku.request({
method: 'GET',
path: '/apps',
headers: {
'Foo': 'Bar'
}
}, function (err, responseBody) {
});
heroku-client works with Node-style callbacks, but also implements promises with the Q library.
var q = require('q');
// Fetches dynos for all of my apps.
heroku.apps().list().then(function (apps) {
return q.all(apps.map(function (app) {
return heroku.apps(app.name).dynos().list();
}));
}).then(function (dynos) {
console.log(dynos);
});
It's easy to get heroku-client working with generators. In this example, I'll use the co library to wrap a function that will get the list of all of my apps, and then get the dynos for each of those apps:
let co = require('co');
let heroku = require('heroku-client');
let hk = heroku.createClient({ token: process.env.HEROKU_API_KEY });
let main = function* () {
let apps = yield hk.apps().list();
let dynos = yield apps.map(getDynos);
console.log(dynos);
function getDynos(app) {
return hk.apps(app.name).dynos().list();
}
};
co(main)();
As long as you're using Node >= 0.11, you can run this script with:
$ node --harmony --use-strict file.js
Hooray, no callbacks or promises in sight!
If you'd like to make requests through an HTTP proxy, set the
HEROKU_HTTP_PROXY_HOST
environment variable with your proxy host, and
HEROKU_HTTP_PROXY_PORT
with the desired port (defaults to 8080). heroku-client
will then make requests through this proxy instead of directly to
api.heroku.com.
heroku-client performs caching by creating a memcached client using memjs. See the memjs repo for environment-specific configuration instructions and details.
heroku-client will cache any response from the Heroku API that comes with an
ETag
header, and each response is cached individually (i.e. even though the
client might make multiple calls for a user's apps and then aggregate them into
a single JSON array, each required API call is individually cached). For each
API request it performs, heroku-client sends an If-None-Match
header if there
is a cached response for the API request. If API returns a 304 response code,
heroku-client returns the cached response. Otherwise, it writes the new API
response to the cache and returns that.
To tell heroku-client to perform caching, call the configure
function:
var Heroku = require('heroku').configure({ cache: true });
This requires a MEMCACHIER_SERVERS
environment variable, as well as a
HEROKU_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_SECRET
environment variable that heroku-client uses
to build cache keys and encrypt cache contents.
HEROKU_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_SECRET
should be a long, random string of characters.
heroku-client includes bin/secret
as one way of generating
values for this variable. Do not publish this secret or commit it to source
control. If it's compromised, flush your memcache and generate a new encryption
secret.
MEMCACHIER_SERVERS
can be a single hostname:port
memache address, or a
comma-separated list of memcache addresses, e.g.
example.com:11211,example.net:11211
. Note that while the environment variable
that memjs looks for is
named for the MemCachier service it was originally built for, it
will work with any memcache server that speaks the binary protocol.
To fetch the latest schema, generate documentation, and run the tests:
$ bin/update
Inspect your changes, and bump the version number accordingly when cutting a release.
Documentation for heroku-client is auto-generated from the API schema.
Docs are generated like so:
$ bin/docs
Generating docs also runs a cursory test, ensuring that every documented function is a function that can be called.
heroku-client uses jasmine-node for tests:
$ npm test