@advanced-rest-client/electron-request

Electron request

The HTTP engine for the Advanced REST Client application.

It works in the Electron's renderer process and allows to make a HTTP request resulting with detailed response.

The detailed response contains information about redirects and timings similar to the ones presented by Chrome Dev Tools.

Usage

The library contain two HTTP clients:

• SocketRequest - ARC's original and own HTTP client. Operates directly on the socket.
• ElectronRequest - A request engine using higher level Node's APIs

Both classes use the same configuration and produce the same output.

Installation

npm i -S @advanced-rest-client/electron-request

Socket request

Originally SocketRequest was develop for ARC Chrome Application as Chrome apps don't have access to low level request APIs and therefore the application was unable to produce detailed information about the request.

import { SocketRequest } from '@advanced-rest-client/electron-request';

const opts = {
  timeout: 30000,
  hosts: [{from: 'domain.com', to: 'other.com'}],
  followRedirects: true
};
const id = 'some-id';
const request = {
  url: 'http://api.domain.com',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: 'x-test: true'
};

const connection = new SocketRequest(request, id, opts);
request.on('load', (id, response, transport) => {});
request.on('error', (error, id, transport, response) => {});
try {
  await connection.send();
  console.log('Request message sent.');
} catch (cause) {
  // usually it means that the server is down or configuration is invalid (URL).
  console.error('Connection error', cause);
}

The transport is defined in @advanced-rest-client/arc-types as TransportRequest interface and describes the final message that has been sent to the endpoint. This includes all transformations applied to the request like added headers.

Native request

Electron application can access Node's APIs and therefore SocketRequest can be eventually replaced to reduce amount of code to maintain.

import { ElectronRequest } from '@advanced-rest-client/electron-request';

const opts = {
  timeout: 30000,
  hosts: [{from: 'domain.com', to: 'other.com'}],
  followRedirects: true
};
const id = 'some-id';
const request = {
  url: 'http://api.domain.com',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: 'x-test: true'
};

const connection = new ElectronRequest(request, id, opts);
request.on('load', (id, response, transport) => {});
request.on('error', (error, id, transport, response) => {});
try {
  await connection.send();
  console.log('Request message sent.');
} catch (cause) {
  // usually it means that the server is down or configuration is invalid (URL).
  console.error('Connection error', cause);
}

Running tests

Run the tests:

npm test