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Evert Pot edited this page Jul 7, 2020
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/**
* A 'resource' represents an endpoint on a server.
*
* A resource has a uri, methods that correspond to HTTP methods,
* and events to subscribe to state changes.
*/
export class Resource<T = any> extends EventEmitter {
/**
* URI of the current resource
*/
uri: string;
/**
* Reference to the Client that created the resource
*/
client: Client;
/**
* Create the resource.
*
* This is usually done by the Client.
*/
constructor(client: Client, uri: string);
/**
* Gets the current state of the resource.
*
* This function will return a State object.
*/
get(getOptions?: GetRequestOptions): Promise<State<T>>;
/**
* Does a HEAD request and returns a HeadState object.
*
* If there was a valid existing cache for a GET request, it will
* still return that.
*/
async head(headOptions?: HeadRequestOptions): Promise<HeadState>;
/**
* Gets the current state of the resource, skipping
* the cache.
*
* This function will return a State object.
*/
async refresh(getOptions?: GetRequestOptions): Promise<State<T>>;
/**
* Updates the server state with a PUT request
*/
async put(options: PutRequestOptions<T> | State): Promise<void>;
/**
* Deletes the resource
*/
async delete(): Promise<void>;
/**
* Sends a POST request to the resource.
*
* See the documentation for PostRequestOptions for more details.
* This function is used for RPC-like endpoints and form submissions.
*
* This function will return the response as a State object.
*/
async post(options: PostRequestOptions): Promise<State>;
/**
* Sends a POST request, and follows to the next resource.
*
* If a server responds with a 201 Status code and a Location header,
* it will automatically return the newly created resource.
*
* If the server responded with a 204 or 205, this function will return
* `this`.
*/
async postFollow(options: PostRequestOptions): Promise<Resource>;
/**
* Sends a PATCH request to the resource.
*
* This function defaults to a application/json content-type header.
*/
async patch(options: PatchRequestOptions): Promise<void>;
/**
* Follows a relationship, based on its reltype. For example, this might be
* 'alternate', 'item', 'edit' or a custom url-based one.
*
* This function can also follow templated uris. You can specify uri
* variables in the optional variables argument.
*/
follow<TFollowedResource = any>(rel: string, variables?: LinkVariables): FollowPromiseOne<TFollowedResource>;
/**
* Follows a relationship based on its reltype. This function returns a
* Promise that resolves to an array of Resource objects.
*
* If no resources were found, the array will be empty.
*/
followAll<TFollowedResource = any>(rel: string): FollowPromiseMany<TFollowedResource>;
/**
* Resolves a new resource based on a relative uri.
*
* Use this function to manually get a Resource object via a uri. The uri
* will be resolved based on the uri of the current resource.
*
* This function doesn't do any HTTP requests.
*/
go<TGoResource = any>(uri: string): Resource<TGoResource>;
/**
* Does a HTTP request on the current resource URI
*/
fetch(init?: RequestInit): Promise<Response>;
/**
* Does a HTTP request on the current resource URI.
*
* If the response was a 4XX or 5XX, this function will throw
* an exception.
*/
fetchOrThrow(init?: RequestInit): Promise<Response>;
/**
* Updates the state cache, and emits events.
*
* This will update the local state but *not* update the server
*/
updateCache(state: State<T>);
/**
* Clears the state cache for this resource.
*/
clearCache(): void;
/**
* Returns a Link object, by its REL.
*
* If the link does not exist, a LinkNotFound error will be thrown.
*
* @deprecated
*/
async link(rel: string): Promise<Link>;
/**
* Returns all links defined on this object.
*
* @deprecated
*/
async links(rel?: string): Promise<Link[]>;
/**
*
* Returns true or false depending on if a link with the specified relation
* type exists.
*
* @deprecated
*/
async hasLink(rel: string): Promise<boolean>;
/**
* Subscribe to the 'update' event.
*
* This event will get triggered whenever a new State is received
* from the server, either through a GET request or if it was
* transcluded.
*
* It will also trigger when calling 'PUT' with a full state object,
* and when updateCache() was used.
*/
on(event: 'update', listener: (state: State) => void) : this
/**
* Subscribe to the 'stale' event.
*
* This event will get triggered whenever an unsafe method was
* used, such as POST, PUT, PATCH, etc.
*
* When any of these methods are used, the local cache is stale.
*/
on(event: 'stale', listener: () => void) : this;
/**
* Subscribe to the 'delete' event.
*
* This event gets triggered when the `DELETE` http method is used.
*/
on(event: 'delete', listener: () => void) : this;
/**
* Subscribe to an event and unsubscribe after it was emitted the first time.
*/
once(event: 'update', listener: (state: State) => void) : this
once(event: 'stale', listener: () => void) : this;
once(event: 'delete', listener: () => void) : this;
/**
* Unsubscribe from an event.
*/
off(event: 'update', listener: (state: State) => void) : this
off(event: 'stale', listener: () => void) : this;
off(event: 'delete', listener: () => void) : this;
/**
* Emit an event.
*/
emit(event: 'update', state: State) : boolean
emit(event: 'stale') : boolean;
emit(event: 'delete') : boolean;
}
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