apiize

Turn any JSON file into a full, explorable, REST API.

Presentation

Start apiize on a JSON file or url

And make requests on it

Install

$ npm install -g apiize

Command line usage

• Start a new server on a given JSON file or url

$ apiize 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lambda2/apiize/master/test/datasets/punchlines.json'

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💫  Express has taken the stage and is listening on port 1313

∙ GET /api/contents Return all the contents
∙ GET /api/contents/:id Return the given contents
∙ GET /api/tags Return all the tags
∙ GET /api/tags/:id Return the given tags
∙ GET /api/authors Return all the authors
∙ GET /api/authors/:id Return the given authors
∙ GET /api/albums Return all the albums
∙ GET /api/albums/:id Return the given albums
∙ GET /api/titles Return all the titles
∙ GET /api/titles/:id Return the given titles
∙ GET /api/ Return all items
∙ GET /api/random A random item

• Make requests on it

$ curl -H "Accept: application/json" "localhost:1313/"

{"endpoints":[{"url":"/api/contents","description":"Return all the contents"},{"url":"/api/contents/:id","description":"Return the given contents"},{"url":"/api/tags","description":"Return all the tags"},{"url":"/api/tags/:id","description":"Return the given tags"},{"url":"/api/authors","description":"Return all the authors"},{"url":"/api/authors/:id","description":"Return the given authors"},{"url":"/api/albums","description":"Return all the albums"},{"url":"/api/albums/:id","description":"Return the given albums"},{"url":"/api/titles","description":"Return all the titles"},{"url":"/api/titles/:id","description":"Return the given titles"},{"url":"/api/","description":"Return all items"},{"url":"/api/random","description":"A random item"}]}%

Usage

const Apiize = require('apiize');

// Here is the default options
const options = {
  verbose: false, // Output more verbose requests
  prefix: 'api', // The root endpoint of the API
  port: 1313 // The express server port.
};

// Turn the 'http://example.org/file.json' file into an API
let apiize = new Apiize('http://example.org/file.json', options);

// When apiize is ready
apiize.on('ready', function (server) {
  server.serve(); // run the server
});

API

var Apiize = require('apiize');

var api = new Apiize(link, options);

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Events

ready

Triggered when the file or the link is fully loaded, and the express server is ready to be started.

var api = new Apiize(link, options);
api.on('ready', function (server) {
  server.serve(); // run the server
});

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Methods

new Apiize(link, options)

Create a new Apiize object using the given link and options. The link argument must be a string of a JSON file or a JSON URL.

Apiize accepts these properties in the options object.

• verbose

  Defaults to false, add a more verbose logging of incoming requests.

  • Without verbose: GET / 200 146 - 6.079 ms

  • With verbose: ::1 - - [25/Jun/2016:15:41:06 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 750 "-" "curl/7.43.0"

• prefix

  Set the root path of the generated api routes. Defaults to api.

• port

  Set the express server port. Defaults to 1313.

on(event, callback)

Triggered when an event is emmmited (e.g., the ready event).

serve()

Start the express server. Must be called when the ready event is called.

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Tests

To run the test suite, first install the dependencies, then run npm test:

$ npm install
$ npm test

People

André Aubin

List of all contributors

License

MIT © Andre Aubin