firemyst / reqwest

browser asynchronous http requests

It's AJAX

All over again.

The happs

$ git clone git://github.com/ded/reqwest.git reqwest
$ cd !$
$ npm install --dev
$ make

API

reqwest('path/to/html', function (resp) {
  qwery('#content').html(resp)
})

reqwest({
    url: 'path/to/html'
  , method: 'post'
  , data: { foo: 'bar', baz: 100 }
  , success: function (resp) {
      qwery('#content').html(resp)
    }
})

reqwest({
    url: 'path/to/html'
  , method: 'get'
  , data: { [ name: 'foo', value: 'bar' ], [ name: 'baz', value: 100 ] }
  , success: function (resp) {
      qwery('#content').html(resp)
    }
})

reqwest({
    url: 'path/to/json'
  , type: 'json'
  , method: 'post'
  , error: function (err) { }
  , success: function (resp) {
      qwery('#content').html(resp.content)
    }
})

reqwest({
    url: 'path/to/data.jsonp?callback=?'
  , type: 'jsonp'
  , success: function (resp) {
      qwery('#content').html(resp.content)
    }
})

reqwest({
    url: 'path/to/data.jsonp?foo=bar'
  , type: 'jsonp'
  , jsonpCallback: 'foo'
  , success: function (resp) {
      qwery('#content').html(resp.content)
    }
})

The Tests

$ npm test

Browser support

• IE6+
• Chrome 1+
• Safari 3+
• Firefox 1+
• Opera

Ender Support

Reqwest can be used as an Ender module. Add it to your existing build as such:

$ ender add reqwest

Use it as such:

$.ajax({ ... })

Serialize things:

$(form).serialize() // returns query string -> x=y&...
$(form).serialize({type:'array'}) // returns array name/value pairs -> [ { name: x, value: y}, ... ]
$(form).serialize({type:'map'}) // returns an object representation -> { x: y, ... }
$(form).serializeArray()
$.toQueryString({
    foo: 'bar'
  , baz: 'thunk'
}) // returns query string -> foo=bar&baz=thunk

Or, get a bit fancy:

$('#myform input[name=myradios]').serialize({type:'map'})['myradios'] // get the selected value
$('input[type=text],#specialthing').serialize() // turn any arbitrary set of form elements into a query string

Happy Ajaxing!