[api] refactor out middlewares from examples.

examples/bodyDecoder-middleware.js

@@ -48,17 +48,7 @@ http.createServer(new Store().handler()).listen(7531, function () {
       //body parser absorbs the data and end events before passing control to the next
       // middleware. if we want to proxy it, we'll need to re-emit these events after 
       //passing control to the middleware.
-      function (req, res, next) {
-        //remove bodyParser's listeners
-        req.removeAllListeners('data')
-        req.removeAllListeners('end')
-        next()
-        process.nextTick(function () {
-          if(req.body)
-            req.emit('data', JSON.stringify(req.body))
-          req.emit('end')
-        })
-      },
+      require('connect-restreamer')(),
       function (req, res, proxy) {
         //if your posting an obect which contains type: "insult"
         //it will get redirected to port 2600.

examples/lib/store.js

+
+module.exports = Store
+//
+// just to make these example a little bit interesting, 
+// make a little key value store with an http interface
+// (see couchbd for a grown-up version of this)
+//
+// API:
+// GET / 
+// retrive list of keys
+//
+// GET /[url]
+// retrive object stored at [url]
+// will respond with 404 if there is nothing stored at [url]
+//
+// POST /[url]
+// 
+// JSON.parse the body and store it under [url]
+// will respond 400 (bad request) if body is not valid json.
+//
+// TODO: cached map-reduce views and auto-magic sharding.
+//
+
+
+
+function Store () {
+  this.store = {}
+}
+Store.prototype = {
+  get: function (key) {
+    return this.store[key]
+  },
+  set: function (key, value) {
+    return this.store[key] = value
+  },
+  handler:function () {
+    var store = this
+    return function (req, res) {
+      function send (obj, status) {
+        res.writeHead(200 || status,{'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
+        res.write(JSON.stringify(obj) + '\n')
+        res.end()
+      }
+      var url = req.url.split('?').shift()
+      if(url === '/') {
+        console.log('get index')
+        return send(Object.keys(store.store))
+      } else if(req.method == 'GET') {
+        var obj = store.get (url)
+        send(obj || {error: 'not_found', url: url}, obj ? 200 : 404)
+      } else {
+        //post: buffer body, and parse.
+        var body = '', obj
+        req.on('data', function (c) { body += c})
+        req.on('end', function (c) {
+          try {
+            obj = JSON.parse(body)
+          } catch (err) {
+            return send (err, 400)
+          }
+          store.set(url, obj)
+          send({ok: true})
+        })
+      } 
+    }
+  }
+}

examples/package.json

+{
+  "name": "http-proxy-examples"
+, "description": "packages required to run the examples"
+, "version": "0.0.0"
+, "dependencies": {
+    "connect": "1.6"
+  , "connect-gzip": "0.1"
+  , "connect-jsonp": "0.0.5"
+  , "connect-restreamer": "1"
+  , "proxy-by-url": "0.0.0"
+  }
+}
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examples/url-middleware.js

@@ -28,72 +28,6 @@ var util = require('util'),
     colors = require('colors'),
     http = require('http'),
     httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
- 
-//
-// This is an example of a url-routing middleware.
-// This is not intended for production use, but rather as
-// an example of how to write a middleware.
-//
-
-function matcher (url, dest) {
-  //
-  // First, turn the URL into a regex.  
-  // NOTE: Turning user input directly into a Regular Expression is NOT SAFE.
-  //
-  var r = new RegExp(url.replace(/\//, '\\/'));
-  
-  //
-  // This next block of code may look a little confusing. 
-  // It returns a closure (anonymous function) for each URL to be matched,
-  // storing them in an array - on each request, if the URL matches one that has
-  // a function stored for it, the function will be called.
-  //
-  return function (url) {
-    var m = r(url)
-    if (!m) {
-      return;
-    }
-    var path = url.slice(m[0].length);
-    console.log('proxy:', url, '->', dest);
-    return {
-      url: path, 
-      dest: dest
-    };
-  }
-}
-
-exports.urls = function (urls) {
-  // This is the entry point for our middleware.
-  // 'matchers' is the array of URL matchers, as mentioned above.
-  var matchers = [];
-  for (var url in urls) {
-    // Call the 'matcher' function above, and store the resulting closure.
-    matchers.push(matcher(url, urls[url]));
-  }
-
-  // This closure is returned as the request handler.
-  return function (req, res, next) {
-    //
-    // in node-http-proxy middlewares, `proxy` is the prototype of `next`
-    // (this means node-http-proxy middlewares support both the connect API (req, res, next)
-    // and the node-http-proxy API (req, res, proxy)
-    //
-    var proxy = next;
-    for (var k in matchers) {
-      // for each URL matcher, try the request's URL.
-      var m = matchers[k](req.url);
-      // If it's a match:
-      if (m) {
-        // Replace the local URL with the destination URL.
-        req.url = m.url;
-        // If routing to a server on another domain, the hostname in the request must be changed.
-        req.headers.host = m.host;
-        // Once any changes are taken care of, this line makes the magic happen.
-        proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, m.dest);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}
 
 //
 // Now we set up our proxy.
@@ -103,7 +37,7 @@ httpProxy.createServer(
   // This is where our middlewares go, with any options desired - in this case,
   // the list of routes/URLs and their destinations.
   //
-  exports.urls({
+    require('proxy-by-url')({
     '/hello': { port: 9000, host: 'localhost' },
     '/charlie': { port: 80, host: 'charlieistheman.com' },
     '/google': { port: 80, host: 'google.com' } 

examples/url-middleware2.js

@@ -3,63 +3,6 @@ var util = require('util'),
     http = require('http'),
     httpProxy = require('http-proxy'),
     Store = require('./lib/store') 
-//
-// This is an example of a url-routing middleware.
-// This is not intended for production use, but rather as
-// an example of how to write a middleware.
-//
-
-function matcher (url, dest) {
-  // First, turn the URL into a regex.  
-  // NOTE: Turning user input directly into a Regular Expression is NOT SAFE.
-  var r = new RegExp(url.replace(/\//, '\\/'));
-  // This next block of code may look a little confusing. 
-  // It returns a closure (anonymous function) for each URL to be matched,
-  // storing them in an array - on each request, if the URL matches one that has
-  // a function stored for it, the function will be called.
-  return function (url) {
-    var m = r(url)
-    if (!m) {
-      return;
-    }
-    var path = url.slice(m[0].length);
-    console.log('proxy:', url, '->', dest);
-    return {url: path, dest: dest};
-  }
-}
-
-exports.urls = function (urls) {
-  // This is the entry point for our middleware.
-  // 'matchers' is the array of URL matchers, as mentioned above.
-  var matchers = [];
-  for (var url in urls) {
-    // Call the 'matcher' function above, and store the resulting closure.
-    matchers.push(matcher(url, urls[url]));
-  }
-
-  // This closure is returned as the request handler.
-  return function (req, res, next) {
-    //
-    // in node-http-proxy middlewares, `proxy` is the prototype of `next`
-    // (this means node-http-proxy middlewares support both the connect API (req, res, next)
-    // and the node-http-proxy API (req, res, proxy)
-    //
-    var proxy = next;
-    for (var k in matchers) {
-      // for each URL matcher, try the request's URL.
-      var m = matchers[k](req.url);
-      // If it's a match:
-      if (m) {
-        // Replace the local URL with the destination URL.
-        req.url = m.url;
-        // If routing to a server on another domain, the hostname in the request must be changed.
-        req.headers.host = m.host;
-        // Once any changes are taken care of, this line makes the magic happen.
-        proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, m.dest);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}
 
 http.createServer(new Store().handler()).listen(7531)
 
@@ -67,7 +10,7 @@ http.createServer(new Store().handler()).listen(7531)
 httpProxy.createServer(
   // This is where our middlewares go, with any options desired - in this case,
   // the list of routes/URLs and their destinations.
-  exports.urls({
+  require('proxy-by-url')({
     '/store': { port: 7531, host: 'localhost' },
     '/': { port: 9000, host: 'localhost' }
   })