AnyHTTP

AnyHTTP is an implementation-agnostic JavaScript interface for making HTTP calls from the browser or a NodeJS environment.

Libraries requiring HTTP calls can depend on the interface while letting the caller provide the implementation. That way, a library doesn't have to explicitly depend on an HTTP library; it merely depends on the abstract interface.

Example

/* == library.js == */

export function getFirstWord(anyHttp, url) {
  return anyHttp.get(url).then(response => {
    return response.body.split(' ')[0];
  })
}


/* == consumer.js == */
import {getFirstWord} from 'library';
import {Http} from 'any-http-reqwest';

var httpImplem = new Http;
var uri = 'http://example.com';

getFirstWord(httpImplem, uri).then(word => {
  console.log("first word:", word);
})

Interface

TODO: describe the interface

Adapters

Adapters are thin wrapper libraries that implement the AnyHTTP interface on top of existing HTTP libraries:

• reqwest
• jQuery
• AngularJS
• (to be extracted into its own repo) request (NodeJS)

Known uses

• theseus

See also

• AnyPromise