Making REST calls
Each API call takes a set of data in JSON format and returns data also in JSON format. The exception to this is a GET request, which instead takes its data as a query string. I didn’t want to have to deal with this detail, so I cobbled together a wrapper function that would produce data in the correct format and issue the request.
var querystring = require('querystring');
var https = require('https');
var host = 'www.thegamecrafter.com';
var username = 'JonBob';
var password = '*****';
var apiKey = '*****';
var sessionId = null;
var deckId = '68DC5A20-EE4F-11E2-A00C-0858C0D5C2ED';
function performRequest(endpoint, method, data, success) {
var dataString = JSON.stringify(data);
var headers = {};
if (method == 'GET') {
endpoint += '?' + querystring.stringify(data);
}
else {
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Content-Length': dataString.length
};
}
var options = {
host: host,
path: endpoint,
method: method,
headers: headers
};
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
res.setEncoding('utf-8');
var responseString = '';
res.on('data', function(data) {
responseString += data;
});
res.on('end', function() {
console.log(responseString);
var responseObject = JSON.parse(responseString);
success(responseObject);
});
});
req.write(dataString);
req.end();
}
https://rapiddg.com/blog/calling-rest-api-nodejs-script
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-rest-client
