JSON:API metal client

Bare metal TypeScript and JavaScript client for web API implementing JSON:API v1.0.

• Zero dependency
• Type-safe
• Isomorphic

Documentations

• Typescript documentation

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Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Documentation
  • HTTP adapter
    • Using fetch
    • Using axios
  • Client
    • Configure custom HTTP headers
    • Result
    • Specification
• Development
• License

Requirements

• ES6 (ECMAScript 2015)

Installation

Using npm:

npm install -s jsonapi-metal-client

Using yarn:

yarn add jsonapi-metal-client

With ES6 modules:

import { HttpAdapters, JsonApi } from 'jsonapi-metal-client';

With CommonJS modules:

const { HttpAdapters, JsonApi } = require('jsonapi-metal-client');

Usage

const httpAdapter = new HttpAdapters.FetchHttpAdapter(window.fetch.bind(window));
const client = new JsonApi.Client(httpAdapter);

// Fetch a resource collection.
client.fetch('https://example.com/articles');
client.fetchResource('https://example.com/articles');
client.fetchResourceCollection('https://example.com/articles');

// Fetch an individual resource.
client.fetch('https://example.com/articles/1');
client.fetchResource('https://example.com/articles/1');
client.fetchResourceIndividual('https://example.com/articles/1');

// Fetch relationship data representing a to-one relationship.
client.fetch('https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author');
client.fetchRelationship('https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author');
client.fetchRelationshipToOne('https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author');

// Fetch relationship data representing a to-many relationship.
client.fetch('https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments');
client.fetchRelationship('https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments');
client.fetchRelationshipToMany('https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments');

// Create a resource.
client.createResource(
  'https://example.com/comments',
  {
    data: {
      type: 'photos',
      attributes: {
        title: 'Ember Hamster',
        src: 'http://example.com/images/productivity.png'
      },
      relationships: {
        photographer: {
          data: { type: 'people', id: '9' }
        }
      }
    }
  }
);

// Update a resource.
client.updateResource(
  'https://example.com/articles/1',
  {
    data: {
      type: 'articles',
      id: '1',
      attributes: {
        title: 'To TDD or Not'
      }
    }
  }
);

// Delete a resource.
client.deleteResource('https://example.com/photos/1');

// Update a to-one relationship.
client.updateRelationshipToOne(
  'https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author',
  {
    data: { type: 'people', id: '12' }
  }
);

// Add a member to a to-many relationship.
client.createRelationshipToMany(
  'https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments',
  {
    data: [
      { type: 'comments', id: '123' }
    ]
  }
);

// Replace all members of a to-many relationship.
client.updateRelationshipToMany(
  'https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/tags',
  {
    data: []
  }
);

// Remove members from a to-many relationship.
client.deleteRelationshipToMany(
  'https://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments',
  {
    data: [
      { type: 'comments', id: '12' },
      { type: 'comments', id: '13' }
    ]
  }
);

Documentation

• Typescript documentation

HTTP adapter

Using axios

HTTP Adapter using the axios.

import axios from 'axios'

const httpAdapter = new HttpAdapters.AxiosHttpAdapter(
  axios
);

Using custom instance:

import axios from 'axios'

const instance = axios.create({ /* ... */ });

const httpAdapter = new HttpAdapters.AxiosHttpAdapter(
  instance
);

Using fetch

HTTP Adapter using the Fetch API.

const httpAdapter = new HttpAdapters.FetchHttpAdapter(
  window.fetch.bind(window)
);

For Node.js you can install cross-fetch, or other implementations.

const fetch = require('cross-fetch');

const httpAdapter = new HttpAdapters.FetchHttpAdapter(
  fetch
);

Set defaultInit

Set a default request init options that will be merged with all the request options made by the adapter:

const defaultInit = { mode: 'cors' };
const httpAdapter = new HttpAdapters.FetchHttpAdapter(fetch, defaultInit);

client.defaultInit.credentials = 'include';

console.log(client.defaultInit);
// { mode: 'cors', credentials: 'include' }

Client

Set the HTTP adapter.

const client = new JsonApi.Client(httpAdapter);

Configure custom HTTP headers

Set default HTTP headers to apply to each HTTP requests.

const username = 'username';
const password = 'password';
const defaultHttpHeaders = { 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + btoa(username + ':' + password) };

const client = new JsonApi.Client(httpAdapter, defaultHttpHeaders);

client.defaultHttpHeaders['x-foo'] = 'bar';

console.log(client.defaultHttpHeaders);
// { Authorization: 'Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=', 'x-foo': 'bar' }

Result

The client returns a Promise that resolves with a Result for JSON:API operations with contains the properties:

Name	Type	Description
isSuccess	boolean	whether the operation is successful.
document	object	JSON:API document.
request	object	HTTP request representation.
response	object	HTTP response representation.

const result = await client.fetch('http://examples.com/articles/1');
console.log(result)
// {
//   isSuccess: true,
//   document: {
//     links: {
//       self: "http://example.com/articles/1"
//     },
//     data: {
//       type: "articles",
//       id: "1",
//       attributes: {
//         title: "JSON:API paints my bikeshed!"
//       },
//       relationships: {
//         author: {
//           links: {
//             related: "http://example.com/articles/1/author"
//           }
//         }
//       }
//     }
//   },
//   request: {
//     url: 'http://examples.com/articles/1',
//     headers: {
//       Accept: 'application/vnd.api+json'
//     },
//     method: 'GET',
//     body: null
//   },
//   response: {
//     status: 200,
//     body: '{"type":"articles","id":"1","attributes":{"title":"JSON:API paints my bikeshed!"},"relationships":{"author":{"links":{"related":"http://example.com/articles/1/author"}}}}',
//     headers: {
//       'content-type': 'application/vnd.api+json; charset=utf-8',
//       etag: 'W/"47a7cbaefdec0639404a5946676f6e95"'
//     }
//   }
// }

Specification

There are some type guards (type predicats) that can be used to inspect the kind of JSON:API document.

import { JsonApi } from 'jsonapi-metal-client';

const {
  isFetchResponse
  isFetchResourceResponse
  isFetchResourceIndividualResponse
  isErrorDocument
} = JsonApi.Specification.TypeGuards

const result = await client.fetch('http://examples.com/articles/1');
if (result.isSuccess) {
  isFetchResponse(result.document)
  isFetchResourceResponse(result.document)
  isFetchResourceIndividualResponse(result.document)
  // true
} else {
  if (result.document) {
    isErrorDocument(result.document)
    // true
  }
}

Development

Requirements:

• Yarn

Type Guards

Generate type guards (type predicats).

yarn type-guards

Documentation

Generate documentation using TypeDoc:

yarn documentation

Lint

Executing lint check using ESLint:

yarn lint

Executing lint fix using ESLint:

yarn format

Test

Executing Jest test suite:

yarn test

License

MIT