RxWS

RxWS is a RESTful reactive JavaScript implementation on top of web sockets. This includes, GET, POST, PUT, REMOVE (DELETE), PATCH, and HEAD. RxWS guarantees message delivery by generating a correlation id for each message (to and from the server). Both the server and client automatically send an acknowledgement response for each request. If there is no acknowledgement after a timeout, an error is thrown.

RxWS implements a RESTful protocol. You can use any websocket server as long as it implements the same protocol. By default RxWS supports SocketIO with rxws-socketio

Setup

RxWS requires a websocket abstraction layer. By default it supports both SockJS and SocketIO.

import rxws from 'rxws';
import SocketIOBackend from 'rxws-socketio/SocketIOBackend';
 
rxws.setBackend({
    backend: SocketIOBackend,
    url: 'ws://someurl'
});
 
rxws.get('users')
  .subscribe(data => console.log)
  .catch(error => console.error)
 

Example

Performing a GET request:

// Request all users
rxws.get('users')
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)
  
// Request a specific user
rxws.get('users', {
  parameters: { 'users': 13 }
})
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)
  
// Optionally the request could have been built with
rxws({
  method: 'get',
  resource: 'users',
  parameters: { 'users': 13 }
})
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)

Performing a POST request:

// Create a user
rxws.post('users', {
  firstName: 'Johnny',
  lastName: 'Appleseed'
})
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)
 
// Optionally the request could have been built with
rxws({
  method: 'post',
  resource: 'users',
  body: {
    firstName: 'Johnny',
    lastName: 'Appleseed'
  }
})
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)

Nested resources:

// Request a comment from a specific post
rxws.get('posts.comments', {
  parameters: { 'posts': 13, 'comments': 15 }
})
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)

Custom headers:

// Request all comments from a post
rxws.get('posts.comments', {
  parameters: { 'posts': 13 },
  apiVersion: '1.2.1',
  accessToken: '7fgnasdfvy0afdsjfjdls',
  queryParameters: { include: 'history' }
})  
  .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error)

Server Notifications:

// Listen for new posts
rxws.onNotification('newPost')
  .forEach((messageBody) => {
    rxws.get('posts', { parameters: { posts: messageBody.id } })
      .subscribe(data => console.log, error => console.error);
  })

Request Middleware:

// Middleware progress from one another in the order they are defined
rxws.requestUse()
    .subscribe(({req, send, reply, next}) => {
        req.header.resource = 'prefix.' + req.header.resource;
        next();
    }, ({req, err}) => {
        //the error function is currently never called
    });

Response Middleware:

// Middleware progress from one another in the order they are defined
rxws.use()
    .subscribe(({req, res, reply, retry, next}) => {
        res.requestTime = Date.now();
        next();
    });
 
rxws.use()
    .subscribe(({req, res, reply, retry, next}) => {
        next();
    }, ({req, err}) => {
        // Do something with the error and the request.
    });
 
rxws.use()
    .subscribe(({req, res, reply, retry, next}) => {
        reply(res);
    });

// Use middleware to retry requests
 
rxws.use()
    .subscribe(({res, reply, retry, next}) => {
        if (res.header.statusCode === 401) {
            auth.refreshAuthToken()
                .then(() => retry())
        } else {
            reply(res);
        }
    })

Reactive example:

// Try three times to get the data and then return cached data if still fails
var source = rxws.get('url').retry(3).catch(cachedVersion());
 
var subscription = source.subscribe(
  (data) => {
    // Displays the data from the URL or cached data
    console.log(data);
  }
);

API

rxws.setBackend(options)

rxws.setBackend({
    backend: rxwsBackendImplementation,
    url: string,
    url: (): Observable,
    defaultHeaders?: object,
    requestTransformer?: (request: object, send: Function): null,
    responseTransformer?: (response: object, reply: Function, retry: Function): null,
    timeout?: 10000,
    onConnectionError?: (error: string): null
})

rxws(config): observable

rxws({
  method: 'get',
  resource: 'posts',
  parameters: { 'posts': 13 }
});

rxws.get(resource[, config]): observable

rxws.delete(resource[, config]): observable

rxws.head(resource[, config]): observable

rxws.post(resource[, data[, config]]): observable

rxws.put(resource[, data[, config]]): observable

rxws.patch(resource[, data[, config]]): observable

rxws.onMessage(type: string): observable

config obbject:

{
    resource: string,
    method: string,
    parameters: object,
    data: object,
    extraResources: object,
    queryParameters: object
}

License

ISC License (ISC) Copyright (c) 2016, CanopyTax

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