Make HttpAgent immutable about hateoas-client-js HOT 3 OPEN

I thought about this, too. But there is a method called HttpAgent#clone, which can be used to generate a copy of the agent.

I use it like this (to delete multiple products by id):

var products = new HttpAgent('/api').navigate('products');

[1,2,3,45].forEach(function(id) {
   var copy = products.clone();
   copy.navigate({"id": id}, 'self').delete();
});

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I saw the .clone() method and realised this was its purpose. I just feel that if I give you a HttpAgent for products you should be able to call it and get products.

As it is I could call navigate and that agent I gave you no longer points to what you think it points to.

Do you support templates URLs?

{
  "_links": {
    "product": { "href": "/api/product/{id}", "isTemplated": true }
  }
}

Then agent.navigate('product', {"id": 1}) would generate /api/product/1

??

On 30 Jun 2014, at 20:35, DracoBlue [email protected] wrote:

I thought about this, too. But there is a method called HttpAgent#clone, which can be used to generate a copy of the agent.

I use it like this (to delete multiple products by id):

var products = new HttpAgent('/api').navigate('products');

[1,2,3,45].forEach(function(id) {
var copy = products.clone();
copy.navigate({"id": id}, 'self').delete();
});
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Nope. Templated URLs are not supported, yet.

If you do:

agent.navigate('products', {'id': id});

it is the same like:

agent.navigate('products')
agent.navigate{'id': id});

It will fetch products and filter all results for an entity with the
property id set to the desired value.

See
https://github.com/DracoBlue/hateoas-client-js/blob/master/example/buy_coffee.html
for
an example.

I know that this is not templated URIs, but that's the reason why the
second parameter for navigate is already taken ;)

If you want to append query parameters, you can do it like this:

agent.navigate('product').get(function(response) {
}, {"id": id});

This will append ?id=1225 to the product link of the agent.

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