senaite@1.0.1

request(method, path, options)

Functions

request

request(method, path, options) ⇒ Operation

Make a general HTTP request

Param	Type	Description
method	string	HTTP method to use
path	string	Path to resource
options	RequestOptions	Optional request options

This operation writes the following keys to state:

State Key	Description
data	the parsed response body
response	the response from the HTTP server, including headers, statusCode, body, etc
references	an array of all previous data objects used in the Job

Example

request("GET", "catalogs");

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Interfaces

HttpState

State object

Properties

Name	Description
data	the parsed response body
response	the response from the HTTP server, including headers, statusCode, body, etc
references	an array of all previous data objects used in the Job

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RequestOptions

Options provided to the HTTP request

Properties

Name	Type	Description
body	object | string	body data to append to the request. JSON will be converted to a string (but a content-type header will not be attached to the request).
errors	object	Map of errorCodes -> error messages, ie, { 404: 'Resource not found;' }. Pass false to suppress errors for this code.
form	object	Pass a JSON object to be serialised into a multipart HTML form (as FormData) in the body.
query	object	An object of query parameters to be encoded into the URL.
headers	object	An object of headers to append to the request.
parseAs	string	Parse the response body as json, text or stream. By default will use the response headers.
timeout	number	Request timeout in ms. Default: 300 seconds.
tls	object	TLS/SSL authentication options. See https://nodejs.org/api/tls.html#tlscreatesecurecontextoptions

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