jamesmoriarty / node-agent

A http(s) agent

node-agent

A http(s) agent used generally in DCS projects.

It functions as a wrapper around the Request npm, supporting a writable stream and executing the supplied callback with a copy of the result when the stream is finished.

Installing

Add something like this into your package.json:

  "dependencies": {
    "async": "^2.1.2",
    "node-agent": "[e-mail]:newscorpaus/node-agent.git"
  }

Using

The agent uses a factory pattern, which means it exports a factory function that can be called without arguments to deliver a working agent.

import { _agent } from '../agent';

const agent = _agent();

agent(req.protocol, req.url, req.headers, res, (err: Error, result: any) => {});

The factory can also accept an alternate version of the default Request library.

Testing

Currently mocha needs to be a global dependency:

npm install -g mocha

An agent requires a version of the Request library Request to be passed into it, or something satisfying the typing contract of it.

const fakeRequester = <request.RequestAPI<request.Request, request.CoreOptions, {}>>fn;

const agent = _agent(fakeRequester);

More Node examples coming.