irvinlim / http-request-builder

A node package for building HTTP request message from an object model

http-request-builder

A node package for building HTTP request message from an object model. Can be used on server and client sides.

Features

• Building headers (with parameters).
• Building cookies.
• Building body with contentType:
  • multipart/form-data
  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • text/plain

Installation

npm i -S http-request-builder

Usage

var builder = require('http-request-builder');

var requestObj = { 
  method: 'GET',
  protocol: 'HTTP',
  url: 'app.com/features?p1=v1',
  protocolVersion: 'HTTP/1.1',
  host: 'app.com',
  headers: [ 
    { name: 'Connection', values: [ { value: 'keep-alive' } ] },          
    { name: 'Cache-Control', values: [ { value: 'no-cache' } ] },
    { name: 'User-Agent', values: [ { value: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64)' } ]},
    { name: 'Accept', values: [ { value: '*/*' } ] },
    { name: 'Accept-Encoding', values: [ 
      { value: 'gzip' },
      { value: 'deflate' }
    ]},
    { name: 'Accept-Language', values: [
      { value: 'en-US', params: 'q=0.6' },
      { value: 'en', params: 'q=0.4' } 
    ]}
  ],
  cookie: [
    { name: 'csrftoken', value: '123abc' },
    { name: 'sessionid', value: '456def' }
  ]
};

var requestMsg = builder.build(requestObj);
console.log(requestMsg);

/* will output:
GET http://app.com/features?p1=v1 HTTP/1.1
Host: app.com
Connection: keep-alive   
Cache-Control: no-cache
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64)
Accept: /
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.6, en;q=0.4
Cookie: csrftoken=123abc; sessionid=456def


*/

This package builds HTTP request message from an object model, which generates another package (parses HTTP request message, and creates an object model for it).

License

This code available under the MIT License. See License.md for details.

Authors

Alexander Mac ([e-mail])