http-request

Request

Simple HTTP client.

Installation

$ npm install @podium/test-utils --save-dev

Getting started

Do a GET:

const result = await request({
    address: 'http://localhost:8080',
    pathname: '/foo'
});

console.log(result);

API

request(options, payload)

Do a HTTP request.

const result = await request({
    address: 'http://localhost:8080',
    pathname: '/foo'
});

Return an promise which resolves with and object with the http headers and response body:

{
    headers: {
        'max-age': '60000',
    },
    body: '<div>some content</div>'
}

options

option	type	default	description
address	string		Address to the http server
pathname	string		The pathname to request
method	string	GET	What method the request is
json	boolean	false	If the body response should be parsed from json to a object

payload

If the option method is POST or PUT the payload to send to the server. The payload should be a string.

const result = await request({
    address: 'http://localhost:8080',
    pathname: '/foo',
    method: 'POST',
}, 'Payload as a string');

console.log(result);