The beginnings of a node-based REST proxy as an implementation of the Gateway pattern.
The goal is to support parallelized and/or sequential REST calls, and to extract pieces of the downstream responses into an aggregate object suitable for a response.
recipe = Proxie.newRecipe(); recipe.against.get("/entity/{id}/child/{id2}") .do .inParallel( Proxie.get("http://entities.me.com/{id}") .acceptJSON .extract("entity", function(result) { return result.data; }), Proxie.get("http://children.me.com/{id2}") .acceptXML .extract("child", function(result) { return result.data; }) ).andWaitForAll then( Proxie.post("http://localhost/authorize").withFormBody({ "CHILD-ID" : Proxie.flash("child").resourceId, "USER-ID" : Proxie.requestHeader("X-AUTHENTICATION") }) .acceptJSON .abortIf(function(result) { return result.status != "success"; }) ) .return({ entity: Proxie.flash("entity"), child: Proxie.flash("child") }) .asJSEND;