HTTP Status Identifier

Purpose

A simple Node JS client that returns an HTTP Status, wrapped in a Promise, given either a status code (i.e 200) or the status name (i.e I'm a teapot).

It also returns an HTTP Status Family (INFORMATIONAL or 1xx, SUCCESS or 2xx, REDIRECTION or 3xx, CLIENT ERROR or 4xx, SERVER ERROR or 5xx) given a status family name or a specific HTTP Status.

Installation

Install via NPM.

npm install http-status-identifier

API

HTTP Statuses

To retrieve HTTP statuses use the identifyStatus method.

The identifyStatus method expects either

1. an HTTP status code, represented as a string or a number
2. an HTTP status name, represented as a string

The returned HttpStatus object contains the following fields:

• name: A string which represents the name for the HTTP status
• code: A number which represents the code for the HTTP status
• description: A string that provides a brief overview of the HTTP status
• supplementaryInformation: A string that provides additional information for the HTTP status. This field may be empty where additional information is not necessary.
• documentationUrl: A string that represents the URL where official documentation for the HTTP status is found. This is often a URL to RFC documentation.

Example

import { identifyStatus } from 'http-status-identifier';
 
// Returns HttpStatus.OK
const okHttpStatus = identifyStatus(200);
 
// Returns HttpStatus.IM_A_TEAPOT
const imATeapotHttpStatus = identifyStatus("I'm a teapot");
 
// Returns HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST
const badRequestHttpStatus = identifyStatus('400');

HTTP Status Families

To retrieve the HTTP Family for a given status use the identifyFamily method.

The identifyFamily method expects either

1. an HTTP status code, represented as a string or a number
2. an HTTP status name, represented as a string

Example

import { identifyFamily } from 'http-status-identifier';
 
// Returns HttpStatusFamily.SUCCESS
const successFamily = identifyFamily('sUcCesS');
 
// Returns HttpStatusFamily.SUCCESS
const successFamilyAgain = identifyFamily(200);