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HTTP Requests

Overview

Supercharge uses the hapi web framework as the core for routing and request handling. Hapi comes with a solid HTTP core and the handy feature of decorating the request object. Decorations allow you to add your own properties or functions on the request object.

Supercharge comes with dozens of request utilities provided by the hapi-request-utilities package. This package is available for everyone on GitHub and NPM. Feel free to install it in your app:

Enjoy!

Request Method and Path

You've access to an incoming HTTP request in all route handlers and request lifecycle methods, including request lifecycle extension points and pre-handlers. The following reviews the important parts of the request instance and how to retrieve specific data from it.

Retrieve the Request Method

The HTTP verb (method) of an incoming request is a property on the request instance:

const method = request.method

Retrieve the Request Path

Use the path property to retrieve a request's path. For example, when requesting https://superchargejs.com/docs/request, the path returns /docs/request.

const path = request.path

Retrieve Request Input

Interacting with a request input allows you to access information like path and query parameters, payload, headers, cookies, authenticated credentials, and request or response types.

Retrieve All Request Data

Use the all method to retrieve an object of merged request properties from the request's payload, path, and query parameter data.

const all = request.all()
// Example: { searchTerm: 'Super Charge', page: 3}

When merging the input from all three inputs, query parameters prioritize over path parameters and path parameters prioritize over payload.

Retrieve an Input Item

Retrieve a single input item identified by key. The request input is the request payload, path and query parameters. Internally, this method fetches the key from request.all().

const username = request.input('username')

You can also pass a default value as the second parameter:

const username = request.input('username', 'default-value')

Retrive Multiple Input Items

Retrieve an object containing only the selected keys from the request payload, path and query parameters.

const { username } = request.only('username')

// or an array
const { email, password } = request.only(['email', 'password'])

The inverse method to request.only is request.except returning an object containing all attributes from the request payload, path and query parameters except the given keys.

const withoutToken = request.except('token')
// Example: { email: 'email@example.com', secret: 'psssst', password: 'super1' }

const withoutSecrets = request.except(['token', 'password', 'secret'])
// Example: { email: 'email@example.com' }

Determine If an Input Is Present

Use .has(keys) to determine whether the request includes an input key or a list of keys.

if (request.has('email')) {
    //
}

// or check an array
if (request.has(['username', 'email'])) {
    //
}

When checking an array of keys, the has method returns true if all of the keys are present.

To ensure a given key is present on the request and includes a non-empty value, use the filled method:

if (request.filled('email')) {
    //
}

// or check an array
if (request.filled(['username', 'email'])) {
    //
}

You can check an array of keys and filled will return true if all of the keys have non-empty values.

Determine If an Input Is Missing

Use .missing(keys) to determine whether the request missing an input key or a list of keys.

if (request.missing('email')) {
    //
}

// or check an array
if (request.missing(['username', 'email'])) {
    //
}

Headers

All request headers are stored in the headers property.

const headers = request.headers

You can request a single header by name using the header method:

const accept = request.header('accept')
// Example: accept = 'application/json'

To determine whether a request header is present on the request, use the hasHeader method:

const hasAccept = request.hasHeader('accept')
// false

Cookies

A request's cookies are stored within a state property on the request instance:

const cookies = request.state

For naming consistency and readability, you can also use the cookies method to retrieve all request cookies:

const cookies = request.cookies()
// Example: { userId: 1, username: 'supercharge' }

Retrieve a selected request cookie by name using the cookie method:

const userId = request.cookie('userId')
// Example: userId = 1

Determine whether a selected cookie is present on the request with the help of the hasCookie method:

const hasUserId = request.hasCookie('userId')

Authenticated Credentials

If your application supports a login and a user successfully authenticated against your application, you can retrieve the credentials of an authenticated via the user property:

const credentials = request.user
// the same as request.auth.credentials
// Example: { id: 1, username: 'marcus' }

Remember that calling request.user before onPostAuth in the request lifecycle will result in an undefined value. Credentials are available as soon as the request is authenticated.

When authenticating users with the help of bearer tokens, you may retrieve an incoming bearer token from the Authorization request header using the bearerToken method. This method will strip the Bearer prefix and only return the token value:

const token = request.bearerToken()
// Example: token = eyJhbGciOiJIUzI…

Request and Response Types

Determine whether the request has a content-type header includes /json or +json:

const isJson = request.isJson()
// false

You may also check the incoming request for a specific response format. If you support HTML and JSON responses on individual routes, the wantsJson method is a helpful method. It indicates whether the response should be a JSON string. It checks the accept header to indicate JSON:

const wantsJson = request.wantsJson()
// false

Supercharge provides a companion method wantsHtml indicating whether the response should be HTML. It checks the accept header to indicate HTML:

const wantsHtml = request.wantsHtml()
// true

Retrieve Request URLs

You can also retrieve the reuqest URL or parts of the request URL from the request object. The folllowing code snippets use a request against https://sub.domain.com/path/second-path?query=string#hashtag to illustrate the results.

Use the .root() method to retrieve the request’s root domain:

const root = request.root()
// https://sub.domain.com

You may retrieve the domain including path parameter using the .uri() method:

const root = request.uri()
// https://sub.domain.com/path/second-path

Please notice that request.url is a property of the hapi framework providing a WHATWG URL instance.

You can also retrieve the full request domain including all parameters using .fullUri() method. You may also use .fullUrl() which is an alias for .fullUri().

const root = request.fullUri()
// https://sub.domain.com/path/second-path?query=string#hashtag