Sourcery

Sourcery is a framework for building RESTful API clients. It's heavily inspired by ActiveResource and behaves almost the same way. It's blazing fast and extremely simple to use.

Synopsis

Defining resources

var Resource = require('sourcery');
 
var Base = Resource.extend({
  host: 'http://example.com/api/v1', // base host
  ext:  'json',                      // optional, will include `.json` in the URLs
  root: true,                        // optional, will include root element
});
 
var Project = Base.extend({
  path: '/projects', // http://example.com/api/v1/projects
  name: 'Project',   // optional, this is the name for the root element
});

CRUD

Find one:

Project.first({ id: 1 }, function(err, project) {
  project.get('name');
  project.get('id');
});

Find many:

Project.all({ user_id: 1 }, function(err, projects) {
  projects[0].get('user_id');
  projects[1].get('user_id');
});

Create:

var project = new Project;
project.set('name', 'Top secret');
 
project.save(function(err, project) {
  console.log(project);
});

Project.create({ name: 'Secret' }, function(err, project) {
  console.log(project);
});

Update:

var project = new Project({ id: 1 });
project.set('name', 'New name');
 
project.save(function(err, project) {
  console.log(project);
});

Destroy:

Project.destroy(1, function(err) {
  // done;
});

var project = new Project({ id: 1 });
 
project.destroy(function(err) {
  // done
});

Include params:

Project
  .where('page', 1)
  .where('limit', 3)
  .all(function(err, projects) {
    console.log(projects);
  });

Nested resources

var Task = Base.extend({
  path: '/projects/:project_id/tasks',
});

Sourcery will replace the placeholders, in this example ":project_id", with the matching attribute.

Basic Auth

var BasicAuth = require('sourcery').BasicAuth;
 
var Base = Resource.extend({
  host: 'http://example.com/api/v1',
  auth: {
    type:  BasicAuth,
    user: 'replace-with-real-user',
    pass: 'replace-with-real-pass'
  }
});

Wait, but what about...

Please open issues if you have feature requests. Thanks!

Install

$ npm install sourcery

Requirements

• Node.js >= 0.6.0

Tests

$ npm install
$ make test

Real world examples

• aero.io API client

TODO

• More examples
• Fake Engine
• Custom endpoints
• Schema
• Associations
• Validations
• Test helpers
• XML
• Custom error classes
• Resource.member()

License

MIT License

Copyright (C) 2012 Veselin Todorov (hi@vesln.com)

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.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.