Questions tagged [restify]
restify is a module for use with node.js that facilitates the creation of REST web services.
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mongoError: Topology was destroyed
I have a REST service built in node.js with Restify and Mongoose and a mongoDB with a collection with about 30.000 regular sized documents.
I have my node service running through pmx and pm2.
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passport.js RESTful auth
How does one handle authentication (local and Facebook, for example) using passport.js, through a RESTful API instead of through a web interface?
Specific concerns are handling the passing of data ...
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Why should I use Restify?
I had the requirement to build up a REST API in node.js and was looking for a more light-weight framework than express.js which probably avoids the unwanted features and would act like a custom-built ...
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Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND in nodejs for get call
I am running a web server on node the code for which is given below
var restify = require('restify');
var server = restify.createServer();
var quotes = [
{ author : 'Audrey Hepburn', text : "...
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Difference between response.send and response.write in node js
I have written a small API which uses the Node js "restify" framework. This API receives a request (actually anything after "/") and then send that request to another server. Get the response back ...
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How can I support cors when using restify
I have a REST api created with the restify module and I want to allow cross-origin resource sharing. What is the best way to do it?
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What's the best practice for MongoDB connections on Node.js?
This is something that is a bit unclear to me (I'm just getting started with Node and Mongo), and it really concerns me because of server performance and strain (which I guess is another question, but ...
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Serving static files with restify
I am learning to use Node.js. Currently, I have a folder structure that looks like the following:
index.html
server.js
client
index.html
subs
index.html
page.html
res
css
style.css
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How to parse/read multiple parameters with restify framework for Node.JS
Scenario: We developer are trying to replace a web service (written in C#.Net) with Node.JS Restful API.
Issue: Now we need to handle the incoming request as is (we don't have control over it). So ...
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serving static files with restify (node.js)
I have the following code:
app.js
[...]
server.get(/\/docs\/public\/?.*/, restify.serveStatic({
directory: './public'
}));
server.listen(1337, function() {
console.log('%s listening at %s', ...
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how do you send html with restify
I want to send plain html instead of a json response for one of my routes in restify. I tried setting the contentType and header property of the response but it doesn't seem to set the contentType in ...
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I need to replace Bearer from the header to verify the Token
bearer = bearerHeader.replace("Bearer","");
jwt.verify(bearer, 'super_secret', function (err, decoded) {
console.log(err);
console.log(decoded);
});
Here is my code. Whenever I try to verify ...
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Application 'appname' failed to start (port 8080 not available) on open shift node app
I have written a node restify server in coffee and I can't seem to get it running.
While deploying I get the following error:
Waiting for application port (8080) become available ...
after which ...
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Creating an OAuth2.0 service provider using RESTify Node.js
I have a restful API that I built using node.js and node-restify. I am up to the part where I have to secure it. Apparently, it is easy to find out how to use OAuth 2.0 as a client but hard to find ...
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Manage errors in Restify
How i can manage all error of my restful server build with Restify of NodeJS? For example internal errors, database errors, validate, required params, not founds, athorizeds... And uncaughtException ...
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Is there a way to log every request in the console with restify?
I'm using restify to build an API, and I'm used to express. Is there a way to have restify log every request in the console, like express does with app.use(express.logger('dev'))?
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How to avoid fast memory increase during scavenge gc?
I have an application built on restify. I have no memory leaks, however I have big memory growth during scavenge gc, then comes heavy weight mark-sweep gc and cleans the memory.
It affects ...
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restify optional route parameters
Hi I have an routing issue with restify.io
It seems like restify does not support the "?" for optional parameters as express.js does.
server.get('/users',function(req,res,next){});
server....
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Redirecting client with NodeJS and Restify
I'm building a REST backend for an SPA with NodeJS, Restify and PassportJS for authentication. Everything's working except the last step, which is redirecting the client from the backends /login/...
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Node.js restify with socket.io
Is it possible to run socket.io & restify on the same port like express & socket.io?
I did just like this but it didn't work
# server.coffee
restify = require 'restify'
socket = require '...
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The consequences of not calling next() in restify
I've been using Restify for some time now. I ran across some code that lacks next() and it occurred to me that I'm not sure if I fully understand the reason why next() should be called after res.send()...
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Cannot find module dtrace-provider
I have a simple nodejs application that is throwing "Cannot find module './build/Release/DTraceProviderBindings'". I look it up online and it looks like that a lot of people are having the same ...
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How to use Restify's RequestLogger?
RequestLogger
Sets up a child bunyan logger with the current request id filled in, along with any other parameters you define.
server.use(restify.requestLogger());
Registering the plugin does not ...
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RESTify on Node.js POST body / json
I am in need of help. I am POSTing json data to my node server. The node server is using RESTify for its API. I am having trouble getting req.body.name from the body of the posted data.
The posted ...
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What is the best way to implement a token-based authentication for restify.js?
I'm trying to build a RESTful api with restify.js, but I don't want to expose the api to everyone. And I'm going to use token-based authentication. The process in my mind is like this, I'm not sure ...
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How to change the default error output in restify
Is there any way that I can change the default error output? Say I'm going to change the rest error output:
{
"code": "InvalidArgumentError",
"message": "blah blah..."
}
to:
{
"code": ...
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Restify Middleware - correctly calling next middleware in stack
I am using Restify with Nodejs and I have a question on the correct way of returning control to the next middleware in stack. I hope I am using the correct phrase when I say "next middleware in stack"....
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How to make a clean architecture for RestAPI on NodeJs
I'm thinking to move some REST Services to NodeJS. The only thing I'm worry about is the architecture of this kind of solution.
Do it exist somewhere some guideline? Of course, I saw some library ...
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How can I get the client IP from a request object with Restify?
I'm having a difficult time finding how to access the IP address of the REST client from a route.
server.get('api/foo', function(req, res, next) {
// How can I access the IP address of the ...
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Dynamic dropping of handlers in restify
Context
I am trying to build a dynamic server with restify (2.6.2) where services are to be installed and uninstalled once the server is started. I realized this can be seen as something odd but it ...
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Restify and Angular CORS No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource
I faced with that problem when implementing REST api with Restify secured with bearer token authorization type.
when I sending simple get request to API server it fails with CORS problem
405 (...
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Node.js + Serve Static Files with RESTIFY
I have a multi-level collection of .html, .js, .png, .css, etc files in a site. A peek at my site hiearchy looks like the following:
index.html
child1
index.html
page1.html
page2.html
...
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location object expected, location array not in correct format
I have spent doing such a straight forward thing. I just want to do a CRUD operation on a user model using nodejs, mongoose, restify stack. My mongo instance is on mongolab.
The user should contain a ...
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node js using express and restify together in one app
I am using restify building apis, it works great. But I need to render some web pages as well in the same application.
Is it possible I can use express and restify together in one application?
this ...
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Get restify REST API server to support both HTTPS and HTTP
I am using node.js restify ver4.0.3
The simple following code works as a simple REST API server that supports HTTP. An example API call is http://127.0.0.1:9898/echo/message
var restify = require('...
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Restify: API version in URL
Currently under development of API with restify and still cannot get used to specifying the API version in headers. It just doesn't seem very user friendly.
Is there any way for version to be part of ...
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CORS-enabled server not denying requests
I am trying to use express Cors with my resitfy server and it doesn't seem to be denying requests coming from other ips. I am working locally so I tried setting origin to a random public ip but all of ...
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Node Js - Identify if the request is coming from mobile or non-mobile device
I'm still new with node js. Is there any workaround or methods on how to identify the request from client-side is from mobile or non-mobile devices using node js? Because what i'm doing now is i want ...
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throttle per url in node.js restify
The documentation states:
Note that you can always place this on per-URL routes to enable
different request rates to different resources (if for example, one
route, like /my/slow/database is ...
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Combine output of 2 queries in REST API
I am using node.js restify module. I have a REST API which outputs the result of a single MySQL query in json. Here is the code of the API;
var rest_api_get_list = function (app, url_name) {
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Node.js, restify and proper routing
I'm still wrapping my head around Node, but I have a very simple question. I see a lot of node examples where people are declaring their routes and all their logic in a single app.js file (or ...
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restify.serveStatic is not a function error
I am using following script but this script is throwing error that serveStatic is not a function
I have installed restify using this command "npm install --save restify"
var restify = require('...
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Testing CORS with cURL [duplicate]
I've been implementing CORS in a lil app I have using node-restify to test it out and it turns out that in the browser, the behaviour is as expected, this means, in a different origin with CORS ...
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JavaScript leaking memory (Node.js/Restify/MongoDB)
Update 4: By instantiating the restify client (see controllers/messages.js) outside of the function and calling global.gc() after every request it seems the memory growth rate has been reduced a lot (~...
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How to make synchronous call with mongoose and nodejs
I'm designing a client/server synchronization feature. The client sends a bunch of changed events to server. The server will do creation, deletion or modification upon requested item status. After the ...
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Can Express.Js output minified JSON?
I'm currently switching from restified to Express, and I noticed that the output of res.send({}) in Express has pretty-printed JSON with white space, while the Restify output is minified without white ...
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'headers already sent' error while using restify with socket.io
I'm following official restify guide to use socketio with restify.
api.js
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var restify = require('restify');
var fs = require('fs');
var server = restify....
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Node.js Restify - Simple service
I'm trying to make a server which stores Json posts, here is the server so far:
var restify = require('restify');
var server = restify.createServer();
server.post('/message/', function create(req, ...
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Set default value for URL parameter in HTTP GET in node.js
I am using node.js restify.
I have a HTTP GET request that looks like this;
http://127.0.0.1//read_val?XXX=123&YYY=456&ZZZ=789
In my handling function, to retrieve the URL parameters, the ...
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basic authentication with Node.js and restify
I'm currently developing a RESTful web service with NodeJS and restify.
I have everything up and running with node-mysql for the database, but I also would like to implement HTTP Basic authentication....
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