connect-select

YOU'RE SENDING LOTS OF DATA THAT PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT.

Stop it.

connect-select is connect middleware that allows the API client to provide a selector which will filter JSON on the server. Usage looks like this:

Request before connect-select:

$ curl http://localhost/getjson
{
  "somethingicarefor": "beer",
  "somethingidont": "war"
}

Request after connect-select:

$ curl http://localhost/getjson?select=.somethingicarefor
["beer"]

How To Use It

1. npm install connect-select
2. add connect-select to your middleware stack, before your code that outputs JSON: server.use(require('connect-select')());
3. write JSON with resp.writeJSON()
4. Tell your api clients that they can provide a select GET parameter to any of your APIs.

If any of that is unclear, check out the example.

License (ISC)

Copyright (c) 2011, Lloyd Hilaiel <[e-mail]>

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