restify/node-restify

node.js REST framework specifically meant for web service APIs

avimar

@avimar

Oh. auditlogger builds req, not just passes it along. Doh.

not sure the best way to solve that.. I like the latency and timers and stuff.

apreg

@apreg

how could I rpoxify some requests with restify?

brentsmyth

@brentsmyth

Is there any way to prevent restify from augmenting the header keys?

Or maybe get some insight into why it does it?

Shahjada Talukdar

@destromas1

Guys , created a simple AUTH Server with Node.js Restify Redis Mongo

https://github.com/clevox/clevox-auth

Please feel free to contribute and use!

jgamedev

@jgamedev

hm... why no new messsages in here since August? Have ppl moved over to another forum?

jgamedev

@jgamedev

I just checked the other listed forum thou ( Google Groups) and there where a total of 2 questions for the whole year of 2016

although stackoverflow question count for Looback and Restify are kind of similar, I must admit

avimar

@avimar

@jgamedev would be weird since there's such an underlying difference.
Perhaps since restify is rather low level, there's not much "new" happening with it?
And most questions that apply to express work here, too.

jgamedev

@jgamedev

is Netflix still using it?

FrikkieRetro

@FrikkieRetro

Hi all

I am using knex and resitfy for my API server. I am trying to do the following

db('table').where({
    id: tableId
})
.then(function(stuff){...})
.then(function(morestuff){...})
.catch(function(error){
    res.send(400,{error.message});
    return next();
}

I have an after function that runs to log traffic, so calling next() is always necessary. However, this block of code gives this warning

Warning: a promise was created in a handler at domain.js:300:12 but was not returned from it

Can anyone give me some help with this?

FrikkieRetro

@FrikkieRetro

Note that when I remove the catch, i don't get this warning

avimar

@avimar

@FrikkieRetro pretty sure you need to return db....

FrikkieRetro

@FrikkieRetro

@avimar I did think so as well initially, but I got the same error

Alex Liu

@DonutEspresso

@jgamedev netflix is still using restify extensively

@FrikkieRetro http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/warning-explanations.html#warning-a-promise-was-created-in-a-handler-but-was-not-returned-from-it

FrikkieRetro

@FrikkieRetro

@DonutEspresso Thanks, I have read that as well. It does the same whether I am returning db or not. I have now reverted to just suppressing the warning on bluebird

Ganesh Majhi

@ganeshmajhi

i have created a restful service using java (spring) & added dependecies using maven.. and now i want it to connect with node.js .. Any help??

Nick Parsons

@nparsons08

@aalimovs All good!

Kreius

@GeCremeans

Hello, I'm new to Restify. is there anything special you have to do for customer headers? I tried res.header to define it there, under my server options.. do I need to specify it in more places?

avimar

@avimar

@GeCremeans have you check the docs? http://restify.com/
What code did you try?

Kreius

@GeCremeans

I did read through the documentation, I was trying to push a custom header with res.header, but I think I may not fully grasp how restify works for custom ones.

John MHM {freshnode}

@playeren

Hi! Noob here playing around with restify. I have a simple restify app, and I wonder why server.on('after' always fires an err, even though nothing seems amiss?
Err obj:

{"methods":["GET"],"name":"get","params":{},"spec":{"path":{},"method":"GET","versions":[],"name":"get"}}

Server.on after snip:

server.on('after', function(req, res, err){
  var ip = req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || req.connection.remoteAddress || req.socket.remoteAddress || req.connection.socket.remoteAddress;
  let reqStr = req.toString(),
      shortReqArr  = reqStr.split('HTTP'),
      shortReq = shortReqArr[0];
  logga(timeDate() + ' 200: ' + shortReq + ' ip: ' + ip);
   if (err) {
              console.log(timeDate() + ' server after error ' + JSON.stringify(err) + ' \n' );
            }
  next();
});

avimar

@avimar

@playeren I'm not sure -- I don't see in the docs -- maybe it's req, res, next, err ?

John MHM {freshnode}

@playeren

@avimar You mean I don't pass next as a arg in the function? I'll try that, thanks!

John MHM {freshnode}

@playeren

@avimar Yeah that was the issue - thanks again!

Yuval

@ValYouW

Just wrote a prototype batch request handler and would welcome a code review... https://github.com/ValYouW/restify-batch-handler

cAstraea

@cAstraea

Hello guys :D have a silly question I think restify might be listening on the wrong host ? Is there any way to specify this ? It binded to :: instead of localhost restify listening to http://[::]:3998

in ipv6 would be ::1 I think ?

Tri Nguyen

@tnguyen14

I am trying to use the serveStatic method like so:

server.get(/\/docs\/?.*/, restify.serveStatic({
    directory: './doc',
    default: 'index.html'
}));

however, when I go to https://myapp.com/docs/, I get this error: {"code":"ResourceNotFound","message":"/docs/"}

I think this is because if I don't define file in opts, it defaults to directory + req.path, which becomes doc/docs

this is not the desired behavior, and doesn't seem to be the behavior described in the documentation

The above route and directory combination will serve a file located in ./documentation/v1/docs/current/index.html when you attempt to hit http://localhost:8080/docs/current/.

does anyone know what I need to do to get the behavior that I wanted?

Emem Umoh

@ememumoh

Hello?

avimar

@avimar

@tnguyen14 did you figure it out?

@ememumoh Hi.

Bruno Alexandre

@balexandre

guys, how can I call an endpoint from a function inside restify (so I can re-use the call instead of extracting everything to a method and call the method)

Roman

@moltar

What is the correct way to catch and reformat errors?

Fernando Girotto

@efbgirotto

Take a look on this @moltar https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/466#issuecomment-26817029

Ashish Pai

@ashishpai2

Hi Everyone,

I want to build a REST based web server. It should be scalable and lightweight. (My app won't be having any front end). Is restify the best choice i've got?

Bruno Alexandre

@balexandre

you can go with restify or express

restify is more if you only target RESTful API's and it's built on top of express anyway :)

Bruno Brant

@Bruno-Brant

@ashishpai2 I've faced the same question three times already. There are many options to consider (which, in my book, is a bit unfortunate), and there are tradeoff's to be considered.

Between Restify and Express the choice is somewhat simple: if you only need API, Restify is the best choice. Restify endpoints can be mostly seamlessly ported to Express if you need to change later.

However, both Restify and Express are "unopinionated", meaning, they don't give you any suggestion of structure. You can have all endpoints in a single file for all they care. And so they won't help you add more structure. I'd go with them only on the simplest of projects, and knowing that I may either want to discard them later on or face a real challenge once things start to get more complex.

Alternatives? You should look at Loopback, which seems very mature. There are others which I haven't considered yet, as you can see here: http://nodeframework.com/index.html#rest-api.

Oh, I ended up doing Restify two out of three.

Antonio Cambule

@acambule

Hi there, i'm new to restify and go through a tutorial http://thejackalofjavascript.com/nodejs-restify-mongolab-build-rest-api/ . I stuck on var client = restify.createJsonClient({
I have an open server and on a second terminal i want to execute a client.js node tells me: TypeError: restify.createJsonClient is not a function.
As I had that problem on the server-side before with other things i found my solution in the restify docs, but on this it seems to be ok. So any hint? Thanks

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