promise-request

Promise based request

A Node.js promise wrapped http request micro library

This little lib offers a Promise wrapped http(s).request method.

Usage

var request = require('./promise-request');
 
var config = {
    scheme: 'https',
    host: 'api.twitter.com',
    path: '/1.1/statuses/mentions_timeline.json',
    method: 'GET'
};
 
request(config).then(function(result) {
    // do something on success...
}, function(error) {
    console.error(error);
});

Parameters:

• options:
  • scheme: [string] http or https. Default: http
  • serialize: [function] will be executed on request body. Default: JSON.stringify()
  • deserialize: [function] will be executed on response body. Default: JSON.parse()
  • ... more: see https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback
• body: object to send as the request body. options.serialize will be applied on it.

Tests

You'll need mocha to run the tests. Once installed, simply run mocha in the project root directory.