NodeHaystack

Project haystack light weight node.js compliant client and server implementation.

API Documentation

Usage

install nodehaystack via console from node application location

npm install nodehaystack

app.js - standard HTTP (no Express)

// Module dependencies .
var hs = require('nodehaystack'),
    http = require('http'),
    url = require('url');

// get the database - you will need to uncomment line #39 of index.js to use the TestDatabase
var db = new hs.TestDatabase();

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  req.setEncoding('utf8');
  req.on('readable', function() {
    var path = url.parse(req.url).pathname;

    // if root, then redirect to {haystack}/about
    if (typeof(path) === 'undefined' || path === null || path.length === 0 || path === "/") {
      res.writeHead(302, {'Location': '/about'});
      res.end();
      return;
    }

    // parse URI path into "/{opName}/...."
    var slash = path.indexOf('/', 1);
    if (slash < 0) slash = path.length;
    var opName = path.substring(1, slash);

    // resolve the op
    db.op(opName, false, function(err, op) {
      if (typeof(op) === 'undefined' || op === null) {
        res.writeHead(404, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
        res.write("404 Not Found");
        res.end();
        return;
      }

      // route to the op
      op.onServiceOp(db, req, res, function(err) {
        if (err) {
          console.log(err.stack);
          throw err;
        }

        res.end();
      });
    });
  });
});

server.listen(3000);
console.log('Node Haystack Toolkit listening at http://localhost:3000');

app.js - using Express

// Module dependencies.
var hs = require('nodehaystack'),
    express = require('express'),
    url = require('url'),
    bodyParser = require('body-parser');

// get the database - you will need to uncomment line #39 of index.js to use the TestDatabase
var db = new hs.TestDatabase();

var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.text({ type: 'text/*' }));
app.use(bodyParser.json()); // if you are using JSON instead of ZINC you need this

app.all('*', function(req, res) {
  var path = url.parse(req.url).pathname;

  // if root, then redirect to {haystack}/about
  if (typeof(path) === 'undefined' || path === null || path.length === 0 || path === "/") {
    res.redirect("/about");
    return;
  }

  // parse URI path into "/{opName}/...."
  var slash = path.indexOf('/', 1);
  if (slash < 0) slash = path.length;
  var opName = path.substring(1, slash);

  // resolve the op
  db.op(opName, false, function(err, op) {
    if (typeof(op) === 'undefined' || op === null) {
      res.status(404);
      res.send("404 Not Found");
      res.end();
      return;
    }

    // route to the op
    op.onServiceOp(db, req, res, function(err) {
      if (err) {
        console.log(err.stack);
        throw err;
      }

      res.end();
    });
  });
});

var server = app.listen(3000, function() {

  var host = server.address().address;
  var port = server.address().port;

  if (host.length === 0 || host === "::") host = "localhost";

  console.log('Node Haystack Toolkit listening at http://%s:%s', host, port);

});

run from console

node app.js