react-native-http

The http module from node.js, but for React Native.

When you require('http') in react-native, this module will be loaded.

adapted from John Hiesey's stream-http, thanks John!

example

var http = require('http')

http.get({ path : '/beep' }, function (res) {
    var div = document.getElementById('result')
    div.innerHTML += 'GET /beep<br>'

    res.on('data', function (buf) {
        div.innerHTML += buf
    })

    res.on('end', function () {
        div.innerHTML += '<br>__END__'
    })
})

http methods

var http = require('http');

var req = http.request(opts, cb)

where opts are:

• opts.method='GET' - http method verb
• opts.path - path string, example: '/foo/bar?baz=555'
• opts.headers={} - as an object mapping key names to string or Array values
• opts.host=window.location.host - http host
• opts.port=window.location.port - http port
• opts.responseType - response type to set on the underlying xhr object

The callback will be called with the response object.

var req = http.get(options, cb)

A shortcut for

options.method = 'GET';
var req = http.request(options, cb);
req.end();

request methods

req.setHeader(key, value)

Set an http header.

req.getHeader(key)

Get an http header.

req.removeHeader(key)

Remove an http header.

req.write(data)

Write some data to the request body.

If only 1 piece of data is written, data can be a FormData, Blob, or ArrayBuffer instance. Otherwise, data should be a string or a buffer.

req.end(data)

Close and send the request body, optionally with additional data to append.

response methods

res.getHeader(key)

Return an http header, if set. key is case-insensitive.

response attributes

• res.statusCode, the numeric http response code
• res.headers, an object with all lowercase keys

install

With npm do:

npm install react-native-http

license

MIT