Threaded Requester

A simple tool to simulate parallelized HTTP requests. Recomended as a fast way to deal with token authentication/authorization, and other requests that need to be executed every certain amount of time.

Requirements

Your environment must support ES6 Module Syntax.

Installation

On your project folder run

npm install threaded-requester --save

or

yarn add threaded-resquester

depending on the package manager your are using on your project.

Usage

You need to import the Requester class from the threaded-requester package. Then, for every request you want to execute programatically you need to create a different instance of the Requester class.

The Requester class constructor receives two parameters. The first one is mandatory and is the url to make the request to. The second one is optional and is an object with the options to configure your request. Available options and their default values are listed below.

Example

This is an example where we want to make two kind of requests. One is a GET request that is executed every minute and the other one is a POST that is executed every two minutes.

import Requester from "threaded-requester";

let priceRequester = new Requester("https://www.myapi.com/1/price", {
  timeout: 60000, // time in miliseconds
  callback: console.log,
});

let postInfo = new Requester("https://www.myapi.com/personalInfo", {
  timeout: 120000,
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "content-type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    firstName: "John",
    lastName: "Doe",
    age: 24,
  }),
  callback: () => console.log("Info Posted!"),
});

// Run the "threads" to make the request every time [] they are needed
priceRequester.run();
postInfo.run();

The callback option is a function to be executed once the request is done. The response of the request is passed as an argument to this function. So, the priceRequest will print to the console the response received and the postInfo requester will print to the console the message Info Posted! every time it made a request.

To stop the requester's execution you have to call its stop method

priceRequester.stop();
postInfo.stop();

Note that after stopping the execution is highly likely that one request was waiting for its next execution, in that case the request will be executed one more time and then it will not be executed anymore until you call the run method again.

Options

Here's the list of all available options to pass to a requester instance.

Option	Default	Description
method	'GET'	The request's HTTP method.
headers	none	The request's HTTP header.
body	none	The body of the request.
timeout	60000	The request is made every timeout miliseconds.
callback	none	A function to be called once the request is finished. The response of the request is passed as a parameter to this function.
failure	none	A function to be called when the request fails. The response of the request is passed as a parameter to this function. The request will still be executed no matter whether it has failed.