edon

A middleware component for node-http-proxy to transform the JSON response from the proxied server. Useful for REST based APIs that returns JSON.

install

$ npm install edon

Example

Overview

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In this example, the JSON below is returned from the remote server and parsed:

{
    'cat': 'meow',
    'cow': 'moo',
    'fox': '???'
}

The following property is removed:

'fox': '???'

And is replaced with:

'fox': 'ding ding ding'

Run It!

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Code

 
var http = require('http');
var httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
var Edon = require('../bin/edon').Edon;
 
/* CONSTANTS */
var HOST = 'localhost';
var PORT = 9000;
var PROXY_PORT = 8000;
 
httpProxy.createServer(
  new Edon(function(json) {
    json.fox = 'frakakakaw';
  }),
  PORT,
  HOST
).listen(PROXY_PORT);
 
http.createServer(
  function(req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/json' });
    res.write(JSON.stringify({
      'cow': 'moo',
      'duck': 'quack',
      'fox': '???'
    }));
    res.end();
  }
).listen(PORT);
 
 

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Emanuel Saringan

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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