yaschema-api-fetcher

Fetch support for yaschema-api.

Basic Example

// You'll typically define this in a separate library shared by your server and clients
export const postPing = makeHttpApi({
  method: 'POST',
  routeType: 'rest',
  url: '/ping',
  isSafeToRetry: true,
  schemas: {
    request: {
      body: schema.object({
        echo: schema.string().allowEmptyString().optional()
      })
    },
    successResponse: {
      status: schema.number(StatusCodes.OK),
      body: schema.string()
    }
  }
});

// Use the API via fetch to post the specified string
const doPing = async (echo?: string) => {
  const pingRes = await apiFetch(postPing, { body: { echo } });
  if (!pingRes.ok) {
    console.error('Something went wrong', pingRes)
    return;
  }

  console.log(pingRes.body);
}

The above example demonstrates compile-time, type-safe use of a yaschema-api, which also performs runtime validation. With yaschema-api, both the client and server can use the same API definitions. However, it's also fine for the API definitions to be used in a one-sided way, for example, when integrating with third-party REST APIs.

With yaschema-api, types can be defined for:

request headers, params, query, and body
success response status, headers, and body
expected failure response status, headers, and body

Using with node.js

yaschema-api-fetcher works out-of-the-box for web, but it can also work with node.js. To set the package up to work with node, do something like:

import nodeFetch, { Blob, FormData } from 'node-fetch';
import type { BlobConstructor, Fetch } from 'yaschema-api-fetcher';
import { setBlobConstructor, setFetch, setFormDataConstructor } from 'yaschema-api-fetcher';

…

setFetch(nodeFetch as Fetch);
// The following are only needed to support form-data requests
setFormDataConstructor(FormData);
setBlobConstructor(Blob as BlobConstructor);

You should do these once around application start time, before apiFetch is used.

Thanks

Thanks for checking it out. Feel free to create issues or otherwise provide feedback.

API Docs

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