http-tasker

http-tasker is a very small and lightweight tasking service library utilizing the http module. It's primary use is to provide a shortcut for mapping URL paths to functions. Useful for API building, scheduling scripts, etc...

Installation

npm install http-tasker

Example

Use of the library is really simple:

var httpTasker = require('http-tasker');
    httpTasker.createServer({
    '/test': function() { // Requests made to the path '/test' will trigger this
        // The initialization function - perform any setup here
        return function(method, query, requestBody) { // Return the function that does the processing
            return 'Response String'; // Return a response from here (not required)
        };
    }
}, function(e) { // Used for custom error formatting when a server error occurs
    return e; // For simplicity, return just the error string. Would be good to change this in use (or omit completely).
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1'); // Returns an instance of http.Server

Testing

The above example is configured as a npmjs testing script. Running

npm test

will start the HTTP server. By default the test is setup to run on 127.0.0.1:1337, so to view the example task navigate to http://127.0.0.1:1337/test while the server is running.