request-test

Convenience wrapper around Node core requests to easily test whether a request fails or succeeds.

• Supports http and https.
• Supports timeouts and cancelling requests.
• Test results:
  • success: if the request was cancelled or returned a 100, 200 or 300 HTTP status code
  • fail: if the request had an error, timed out, or returned 400 or 500 HTTP status code

Installation

npm install request-test

Quickstart

> setting a timeout

const test = require('request-test')

const request = test({ url: 'https://slow.com', timeout: 1000 })

request.once('fail', reason => console.log(reason)) // => 'ETIMEDOUT'

> cancelling a request

const test = require('request-test')

const request = test({ url: 'https://slow.com' })

request.once('success', reason => console.log(reason)) // => 'CANCELLED'

setTimeout(() => {
    request.cancel()
}, 1000)

API

const test = require('request-test')

request = test({ url, timeout })

> Starts a request test with the specified url and timeout

• url <String>: the url the request will be sent to; default: http://localhost
• timeout <Number>: the timeout in milliseconds after which the request will be aborted; default: 2000
• returns a <ClientRequest> which emits one of the following events:
  • success => <String> / <Number>: the reason why the request succeeded, e.g. a 100, 200 or 300 HTTP status code or CANCELLED
  • fail => <String> / <Number>: the reason why the request failed, e.g.: a 400 or 500 HTTP status code or the error code of a Node network errror, e.g. ETIMEDOUT, ENOTFOUND, ECONNREFUSED, etc.
• throws an <Error>: if the protocol of the url is neither http nor https

request.cancel()

> Cancels the sent request

• Note that upon calling this method the request will be considered a success.

License

WTFPL – Do What the F*ck You Want to Public License.

Made with ❤️ by @MarkTiedemann.