seal-connect-service

Connects to a service with given host name and port number.

Installation

$ npm install seal-connect-service

Quick start

First you need to add a reference to seal-connect-service within your application.

const connectService = require('seal-connect-service');

Please note: A connection to consul must already exist before you can use the module.

To create a HTTP/HTTPS connection to an instance of a service (e.g. myService), use:

connectService({
  service: 'myService',
  path: '/job'
}, {
  name: 'hostname',
  port: 3000
}, (err, client) => {
  if (!err) {
    throw new Error('An error occurred while connecting to the service.');
  }

  client.on('response', (response) => {
    console.log(`Response status: ${response.statusCode}`);
  });

  client.write('Hello service!');
  client.end();
});

The first parameter is an options object that can contain the following properties:

property	type	description
service	required string	Name of the service to access
headers	optional object	Additional HTTP/HTTPS headers
method	optional string	HTTP/HTTPS method, default POST
path	optional string	URL-path to access, default /

Here is an example of a more complete options object:

const options = {
  headers: {
    'content-type': 'application/json'
  },
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/url/path',
  service: 'myService'
};

Second parameter is the host name and port number. Example:

const host = {
  name: 'hostname',
  port: 3000
};

The callback function given as the third parameter will be called when a connection to the service could be established. In this case, the err parameter is null and the req parameter contains a http.ClientRequest object for further use. Otherwise, the err parameter contains an Error object with further details about the problem.

HTTP and HTTPS

The protocol used for a connection depends on the target (local or remote) and the value of the environment variable TLS_UNPROTECTED. The TLS certificates provided by seal-tlscert will be used for HTTPS connections. It is not possible to override the chosen protocol.

Running the build

To build this module use roboter.

$ bot