Request-Consul

Request consul is used to request internal microservice through Consul.

If many occurences of called service exist, a randomly choice is made.

Usage

Basic Usage

'use strict';

var Consul  = require('consul-node'),
    request = require('./index');

request({
    uri : 'http://servicename/function',
}, function (err, res, body) {
    console.log(body);
});

params	description	default
consul	Consul Instance from package consul-node or object params for cConsul constructor	-
uri	Request URL, the hostname must be your service name in Consul.io	-

Advanced

Change consul options

'use strict';

var Consul  = require('consul-node'),
    request = require('./index');

request({
    uri : 'http://servicename/function',
    consul : {
        hostname    : '172.17.0.1',
        port        : 8888,
        secure      : true,
        strict      : true
    }
}, function (err, res, body) {
    console.log(body);
});

Pass Consul Instance

'use strict';

var Consul  = require('consul-node'),
    request = require('./index');

var consul = new Consul();

request({
    uri : 'http://servicename/function',
    consul : consul
}, function (err, res, body) {
    console.log(body);
});