sleeper ⎔

A high-level network abstraction that makes working with REST APIs simple.

This library is very old and you should probably use ky instead, which has a similar API but is based on Fetch rather than XMLHttpRequest.

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Instantiation

Sleeper is available in ES Modules, CommonJS and UMD formats.

Using Modules:

import sleeper from 'sleeper';
 
const users = sleeper('/api/users');
 
// users is a sleeper.Resource instance:
alert(users instanceof sleeper.Resource);

Without AMD:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/sleeper/dist/sleeper.umd.js"></script>
<script>
    var users = sleeper('/api/users');
 
    // users is a sleeper.Resource instance:
    alert(users instanceof sleeper.Resource);
</script> 

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API

sleeper(url) / new sleeper.Resource(url)

Create a new sleeper.Resource instance for the resource at a given URL.

const users = sleeper('/api/users');
 
// equivalent to:
const users = new sleeper.Resource('/api/users');

.index(callback)

Get a list of resources

users.index(list => {
    // list is an Array of users
    console.log('Users: ', list);
});

.get(id, callback)

Get a single resource

users.get('myid', user => {
    console.log('User "myid": ', user);
});

.post(data, callback)

Create a new resource.

users.post({
    username : 'joe',
    password : 'super secret password'
}, user => {
    console.log('New user: ', user);
});

.put(id, data, callback)

Update/replace an existing resource, indicated by its ID.

users.put('myid', {
    username : 'joe',
    password : 'super secret password',
    status : 'awesome'
}, user => {
    console.log('Updated user: ', user);
});

.patch(id, data, callback)

Update/patch an existing resource, indicated by its ID.

users.patch('myid', {
    status : 'awesome'
}, user => {
    console.log('Updated user: ', user);
});

.delete(id, callback)

Update an existing resource, indicated by its ID.
If you care about old browsers, a del() alias is provided.

users.delete('myid', res => {
    console.log('Delete response: ', res);
});

.param(key [, value])

Get or set a querystring parameter to send on each request.

• If value is set: adds a global querystring parameter key with a value of value
• If value is empty: returns the current value of the global parameter key
• If key is an Object: adds key's key-value property pairs as global parameters

// Send a token on all subsequent requests:
users.param('token', 'abcdefg');
 
// Get the current token value:
const token = users.param('token');
console.log(token);

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Hooks

Modify functionality by changing these values.

.serializeBody(body, req)

When a request has a body, this function is responsible for serializing it.

The default implementation of serializeBody() provides an example usage:

serializeBody(body, req) {
    if (!req.headers['content-type']) {
        req.headers['content-type'] = 'application/json';
    }
    return JSON.stringify(body);
}

.idKey

This key path is used to obtain an Object identifier if one is not explicitly passed to put() / patch().

Defaults to "id".

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Events

req

(req) => {}

Hook the req event to be notified prior to all requests.

Event handlers get passed a Request instance.

users.on('req', req => {
    console.log('Request: ', req.method, req.url, req.body);
});

req:/url

(req) => {}

Add an event handler for "req:" followed by relative URL (ex: req:/users) to be notified when a request is made to the given URL.

This is just a more specific version of the req event.

users.on('req:/users', req => {
    console.log('User list request: ', req.method);
});

status

(req, res) => {}

Hook the status event to be notified of the status of every response.

Event handlers get passed Request and Response.

users.on('status', (req, res) => {
    console.log('Status: ', res.status);
});

status:N

(req, res) => {}

Add an event handler for "status:" followed by a specific response status code (ex: status:401) to be notified when a response is issued with that status.

This is just a more specific version of the status event.

users.on('status:401', (req, res) => {
    console.log('Unauthorized: ', res.response);
});

res

(req, res) => {}

Hook the res event to be notified of all responses.

Event handlers get passed a Request and Response.

users.on('res', (req, res) => {
    console.log('Response: ', req.url, res.headers, res.json);
});

res:/url

(req, res) => {}

Add an event handler for "res:" followed by relative URL (ex: res:/users) to be notified when a response is received from the given URL.

This is just a more specific version of the res event.

users.on('res:/users', (req, res) => {
    console.log('User list response: ', res.headers, res.json);
});