quip
A convenient chainable API for HTTP ServerResponse objects in node.
- Suited to quick and easy prototyping
- Works as a Connect middleware
- Allows you to pipe streams to the response, while easily setting up the headers and status code beforehand
Examples
responding with different status codes
res;res;
responding with different mime types
restext'plain text';res;
chaining the two together (in any order)
res;res;
redirection
res;res;
custom headers
resheaders'custom': 'header'text'some data';
piping data to a response object
// read posts.xml and pipe to response with mime type application/atom+xmlvar feed = fs;feed;
The response is completed when data is passed to a status code or mime-type function, when a redirect is performed, or when a stream is piped to the response.
Usage
Use quip for specific responses:
var quip = require('quip'),
http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
quip(res).ok('example');
});
Enable for all response objects by using quip as a Connect middleware:
var connect = require('connect'),
quip = require('quip'),
var app = connect(
quip,
function (req, res, next) {
res.ok('example');
}
);
API
- headers - add custom headers to response, returns updated response object
- status - set status code of response manually, returns updated response
Status Codes
By default, the response will have the status code 200 (OK), this can be updated using the following methods. Note that by passing some data to these methods, the response will complete. If you don't pass data it will return an updated response object, allowing you to chain calls together. If the data passed is an object then it will be treated as JSON and the mime type of the response will be updated accordingly.
Success
- res.ok
- res.created
- res.accepted
- res.noContent
Redirection
- res.moved
- res.redirect
- res.found - alias for redirect
- res.notModified
Client Error
- res.badRequest
- res.unauthorized
- res.forbidden
- res.notFound
- res.notAllowed
- res.conflict
- res.gone
Server Error
- res.error
Mime Types
By default, the response will have the mime-type text/html, this can be updated using the following methods. Note that by passing some data to these methods, the response will complete. If you don't pass data it will return an updated response object, allowing you to chain calls together. You can pass an object to the json and jsonp methods and it will be stringified before sending.
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res.text
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res.plain
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res.html
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res.xhtml
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res.css
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res.xml
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res.atom
-
res.rss
-
res.javascript
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res.json
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res.jsonp -- JSONP is a special case that always completes the request, and overrides any previous status code calls. There is no reliable way for a browser to interpret JSONP responses with a status code other than 200. Any error or status information should be included in the JSONP response itself. The jsonp method accepts 2 arguments, a callback name (string) and some JSON data (either a string or an object literal).