hyper

A CFML HTTP Builder

Inspiration

Hyper was built after coding several API SDK's for various platforms — S3SDK, cbstripe, and cbgithub, to name a few. I noticed that I spent a lot of time setting up the plumbing for the requests and a wrapper around cfhttp. Each implementation was mostly the same but slightly different. It was additionally frustrating because I really only needed to tweak a few values, usually just the Authorization header. It would be nice to create an HTTP client pre-configured for each of these SDK's. It seemed the perfect fit for a module.

The problem it solves

Hyper exists to provide a fluent builder experience for HTTP requests and responses. It also provides a powerful way to create clients, i.e. Builder objects with pre-configured defaults like a base URL or certain headers.

Requirements

Hyper runs on Adobe ColdFusion 11+ and Lucee 5+.

ColdBox is not required, but mappings are provided for ColdBox users automatically.

Upgrade from v3

The only changes between v3 and v4 is with the getQueryParams and setQueryParams methods. These now are represented internally as an array of structs to support duplicate keys in query strings. You probably want the getQueryParamByName and getAllQueryParamsByName instead of getQueryParams and withQueryParams or appendQueryParams methods instead of setQueryParams.

One more item of note, the getQueryParam method has been deprecated in favor of getQueryParamByName.

HyperBuilder

The component you will most likely inject is the HyperBuilder. This is commonly aliased as hyper.

component {
    property name="hyper" inject="[email protected]";
}

The HyperBuilder creates new requests. This can be done in one of two ways:

1. Calling the new method will create a new request with the configured defaults.
2. Calling any method on HyperRequest on the HyperBuilder instance will create a new request and forward on the method call.

Using the HyperBuilder lets you easily create requests with defaults while also avoiding having to deal with providers directly.

HyperRequest

Though the HyperBuilder is the component you will most likely inject, HyperRequest is the component will you interact with the most. HyperRequest provides a fluent interface to configure your HTTP call.

Example:

hyper.get( "https//api.github.com/users" );

hyper.setMethod( "PUT" )
    .withHeaders( { "Authorization" = "Bearer #token#" } )
    .setUrl( "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1" )
    .setBody( {
        title: "New Title"
    } )
    .send();

Request Execution

get

Execute a GET request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
queryParams	struct	false	null	An optional struct of query parameters to set for the request.

getAsync

Execute a GET request asynchronously. Returns a ColdBox Future that returns a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
queryParams	struct	false	null	An optional struct of query parameters to set for the request.

post

Execute a POST request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

postAsync

Execute a POST request asynchronously. Returns a ColdBox Future that returns a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

put

Execute a PUT request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

putAsync

Execute a PUT request asynchronously. Returns a ColdBox Future that returns a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

patch

Execute a PATCH request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

patchAsync

Execute a PATCH request asynchronously. Returns a ColdBox Future that returns a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

delete

Execute a DELETE request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

deleteAsync

Execute a DELETE request asynchronously. Returns a ColdBox Future that returns a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	string	false	null	An optional URL to set for the request.
body	struct	false	null	An optional body to set for the request.

send

Send the HTTP request and return a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

sendAsync

Send the HTTP request asynchronously and return a ColdBox Future that will resolve to a HyperResponse.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

Request Properties

getRequestId

Gets the unique request ID representing this request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getFullURL

Gets the full URL for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
withQueryString	boolean	false	false	Includes the configured query string with the full URL

getBaseURL

Gets the base URL for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setBaseURL

Sets the base URL for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	string	true		The base URL for the request, e.g. https://api.github.com/.

getURL

Gets the URL for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setURL

Sets the URL for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	string	true		The URL for the request. It can either be a full url or a URI resource for use with the baseURL. e.g. /repos.

setResolveURL

Sets the resolveURL parameter for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	boolean	false	false	Resolves URLs in the response body to absolute URLs, including the port number

getMethod

Gets the HTTP method for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setMethod

Sets the HTTP method for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	string	true		The HTTP method for the request.

withBasicAuth

Sets the username and password for HTTP Basic Auth.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
username	string	true		The username for the basic auth.
password	string	true		The password for the basic auth.

withCertificateAuth

Sets the username and password for HTTP Basic Auth.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
certificatePath	string	true		The mapped path to the certificate used to authenticate.
password	string	false		The optional password used to decrypt the certificate.

withNTLMAuth

Sets the username, password, domain and workstation for NTLM Auth.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
username	string	true		The username for the NTLM auth.
password	string	true		The password for the NTLM auth.
domain	string	true		The domain for the NTLM auth.
workstation	string	true		The workstation for the NTLM auth.

Workstation can be obtained with createObject('java','java.net.InetAddress').getLocalHost().getHostName()

withRequestCallback

Schedules a callback to be ran when executing the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
callback	function	true		The callback to run when executing the request.

Returns: the HyperRequest instance

withResponseCallback

Schedules a callback to be ran when receiving the response.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
callback	function	true		The callback to run when receiving the response.

Returns: the HyperRequest instance

getUsername

Gets the username for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setUsername

Sets the username for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	string	true		The username for the request.

getPassword

Gets the password for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setPassword

Sets the password for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	string	true		The password for the request.

getTimeout

Gets the timeout for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setTimeout

Sets the timeout for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	string	true		The timeout for the request.

withoutRedirecting

A convenience method to not follow any redirects.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

withoutEncodingUrl

A convenience method to not encode the url. WARNING: Not supported on Adobe engines.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getMaximumRedirects

Gets the maximum number of redirects to follow.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setMaximumRedirects

Sets the maximum number of redirects to follow. A value of * will follow redirects infinitely.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	any	true		The maximum number of redirects to follow.

getBody

Gets the body for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setBody

Sets the body for the request. Complex values will be serialized before sending the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	any	true		The body for the request.

getBodyFormat

Gets the body format for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setBodyFormat

Sets the body format for the request. Allowed values are either formFields or json. It is highly receommended to use asFormFields or asJson instead.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	any	true		The body format for the request.

asJson

A convenience method to set the body format and Content-Type to json.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

asFormFields

A convenience method to set the body format and Content-Type to form fields.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getReferrer

Gets the referrer for the request, if any.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getHeaders

Gets the headers for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setHeaders

Sets the headers for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	struct	true		The headers for the request.

setHeader

Set a header for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the header.
value	string	true		The value of the header.

withHeaders

Add additional headers to the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
headers	struct	true		A struct of headers to add to the request.

forwardHeaders

Adds specified headers to the request if they exist. Usually used in conjunction with the current CFML request headers.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
names	array	true		An array of header names to add to the request if they exist in the headers struct.
headers	struct	false	getHTTPRequestData( false ).headers	A struct of headers to inspect.

hasHeader

Check if the request has a header with the given name.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the header to check.

setContentType

A convenience method to set the Content-Type header.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
type	string	true		The Content-Type value for the request

setAccept

A convenience method to set the Accept header.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
type	string	true		The Accept value for the request

getQueryParams

Gets the query parameters for the request.

This method returns an array of param structs that is used under the hood by Hyper. You probably want to use getQueryParamByName or getAllQueryParamsByName instead.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

setQueryParams

Sets the query parameters for the request.

This method accepts an array of param structs that is used under the hood by Hyper. You probably want to use withQueryParams or appendQueryParams instead.

If needed, param structs have two keys, name and value.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	array	true		The query parameters for the as an array of param structs.

getQueryParam

DEPRECATED: Use getQueryParamByName Gets the first value for a certian query parameter. Returns an empty string if the query parameter does not exist.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the query parameter to retrieve the first value.

getQueryParamByName

Gets the first value for a certian query parameter. Returns an empty string if the query parameter does not exist.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the query parameter to retrieve the first value.

getAllQueryParamsByName

Get all the values for a certian query parameter. Returns an empty array if the query parameter does not exist.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the query parameter to retrieve all of its values.

setQueryParam

Set a query parameter for the request. Note: This removes all other query params with the same name.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the query parameter.
value	string	true		The value of the query parameter.

appendQueryParam

Append a query parameter for the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the query parameter.
value	string	true		The value of the query parameter.

withQueryParams

Add additional query parameters to the request. Note: This will remove any values with duplicate keys prior to adding the new struct of params.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
queryParams	struct	true		A struct of query parameters to add to the request.

appendQueryParams

Appends additional query parameters to the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
queryParams	struct	true		A struct of query parameters to add to the request.

hasQueryParam

Check if the request has a query parameter with the given name.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the query parameter to check.

attach

Attaches a file to the Hyper request. Also sets the Content-Type as multipart/form-data. Multiple files can be attached by calling attach multiple times before calling a send method.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	true		The name of the file being uploaded.
path	string	true		The absolute path to the file to be uploaded.
mimeType	string	false		An optional mime type to associate with the file.

setThrowOnError

Sets the throw on error property for the request. If true, error codes and status will be turned in to exceptions.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	boolean	true		The value of the throw on error flag.

throwErrors

A convenience method to throw on errors.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

allowErrors

A convenience method to not throw on errors.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

clone

Clones the current request into a new HyperRequest.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

Returns: A new HyperRequest instance cloned from this one.

setProperties

Quickly set many request properties using a struct. The key should be the name of one of the properties on the request, e.g. url, headers, method, body.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
properties	struct	true		A struct of properties to set. Each property name will be set on the request. Properties that don't exist on the request will throw an error.

setHttpClient

Sets the HTTP Client to use for the request. The client should conform to the HyperHttpClientInterface (though it does not need to use the implements keyword).

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
httpClient	HyperHttpClientInterface	true		The httpClient to use for the request.

setInterceptorService

ColdBox Interceptor Service to announce request and response interception points. A noop option is provided in the init for non-ColdBox settings.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
interceptorService	any	true		The interceptor service to use for the request.

setAsyncManager

ColdBox AsyncManager to send requests asynchronously. A noop option is provided in the init for non-ColdBox settings.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
asyncManager	any	true		The asyncManager to use for the request.

HyperResponse

The HyperResponse component is a read-only wrapper to easily grab different information about the response.

getResponseId

Gets the unique response ID representing this response.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getStatusCode

Gets the status code for the response.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getData

Gets the data for the response.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getRequest

Gets the HyperRequest instance associated with this response.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getCharset

Gets the charset value for the response.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getTimestamp

Gets the timestamp for when this response was recieved.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

getExecutionTime

Gets the execution time of the request.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

json

Returns the data of the request as deserialized JSON.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isSuccess

Returns true if the request status code is considered successful.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isOK

Returns true if the request status code is 200 OK.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isRedirect

Returns true if the request status code is considered a redirect.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isError

Returns true if the request status code is considered either a client error or a server error.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isClientError

Returns true if the request status code is considered a client error.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isUnauthorized

Returns true if the request status code is 401 Unauthorized.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isForbidden

Returns true if the request status code is 403 Forbidden.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isNotFound

Returns true if the request status code is 404 Not Found.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

isServerError

Returns true if the request status code is considered a server error.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
No arguments

Request Defaults

Hyper allows you to configure defaults for your requests. This is particularly useful for reducing boilerplate in your application.

Defaults are set on the HyperBuilder instance. The easiest way to do this is to configure it in WireBox:

// config/WireBox.cfc
component {

    function configure() {
        map( "StarWarsClient" )
            .to( "hyper.models.HyperBuilder" )
            .asSingleton()
            .initWith(
                baseUrl = "https://swapi.co/api"
            );
    }

}

Now, you can inject this pre-configured builder wherever you need in your application:

component {

    property name="StarWarsClient" inject="id";

    function findUser( id ) {
        return StarWarsClient.get( "/people/#id#" );
    }

}

You can even create multiple clients using this approach:

// config/WireBox.cfc
component {

    function configure() {
        map( "SWAPIClient" )
            .to( "hyper.models.HyperBuilder" )
            .asSingleton()
            .initWith(
                baseUrl = "https://swapi.co/api"
            );
    }
    
    function afterAspectsLoad(){
		// Map Bindings below
		map( "GitHubClient" )
            .to( "hyper.models.HyperBuilder" )
            .asSingleton()
            .initWith(
                baseUrl = "https://api.github.com",
                headers = {
                    "Content-Type" : "application/json", // If you map to a builder with headers - make sure you set your Content-Type if desired
		    "Authorization" = getColdBox().getSetting( "SWAPI_TOKEN" )
                }
            );
	}

}

Note: If you are mapping a builder and use the initWith( headers = {... } ), these headers will overwrite the default headers you get with a HyperRequest so you might see some inconsistencies. A hyperRequest defaults the headers to "Content-Type" : "application/json", so if you want to set a content-type, please include that in your headers struct, like above.

You can also set or change the defaults by either passing the key / value pairs in to the init method or by calling the appropriate HyperRequest method on the HyperBuilder.defaults property.

var hyper = new Hyper.models.HyperBuilder(
    baseUrl = "https://api.github.com"
);
hyper.defaults.withHeaders( { "Authorization" = token } );

The defaults set here need to match the property names on the HyperRequest. These are:

/**
* The httpClient to use for the request
*/
property name="httpClient";

/**
* The baseURL for the request.
* e.g. https://api.github.com/
*/
property name="baseUrl" default="";

/**
* The URL for the request.
* It can either be a full url
* or a URI resource for use with the baseURL.
* e.g. /repos
*/
property name="url" default="";

/**
* Setting this to true will change all relative urls in the document to absolute.
*/
property name="resolveUrls" default="false";

/**
* Setting this to false will not automatically encode the url passed.
* WARNING: Setting this to false is not supported on Adobe engines.
*/
property name="encodeUrl" default="true";

/**
* The HTTP method for the request.
*/
property name="method" default="GET";

/**
* The username for the request for basic auth.
*/
property name="username" default="";

/**
* The password for the request for basic auth.
*/
property name="password" default="";

/**
* Timeout, in seconds, for the request.
*/
property name="timeout" default="10";

/**
* The maximum number of redirects to follow.
* A value of `*` will follow redirects infinitely.
*/
property name="maximumRedirects" default="*";

/**
* The body to send with the request.
* How the body is serialized is
* determined by the bodyFormat.
*/
property name="body" default="";

/**
* The format to serialize the body.
* e.g. `json` or `formFields`
*/
property name="bodyFormat" default="json";

/**
* The referring response in the case of redirects.
*/
property name="referrer";

/**
* A struct of headers for the request.
*/
property name="headers";

/**
* A struct of query parameters for the request.
*/
property name="queryParams";

/**
* Flag to throw on a cfhttp error.
*/
property name="throwOnError" default="false";

/**
* The full path to a PKCS12 format file that contains the client certificate for the request.
*/
property name="clientCert";

/**
* 	Password used to decrypt the client certificate.
*/
property name="clientCertPassword";

/**
* The domain for the request for NTLM auth.
*/
property name="domain" default="";

/**
* The workstation for the request for NTLM auth.
*/
property name="workstation" default="";

/**
* The authType for the request
*/
property name="authType" default="BASIC";

/**
* An array of callback functions to call
* before firing off a request.
*/
property name="requestCallbacks" type="array";

/**
* An array of callback functions to call
* after receiving a response.
*/
property name="responseCallbacks" type="array";

Interceptors

Hyper announces two interception points you can listen to in your ColdBox applications: onHyperRequest and onHyperResponse.

onHyperRequest receives a struct with a request key as the data.

onHyperResponse receives a struct with a response key as the data.