The ajax module implements support for making HTTP requests using XHR.
This module is functionally identical to xhr,
extended to support an options object as the first argument to request().
The options take the same form as Node's HTTP
module. For modules that don't need this functionality, it is recommended to use
xhr directly, in order to minimize the number of dependencies.
$ component install anchorjs/ajax
$ volo add anchorjs/ajax
ajax.request() returns an instance of Request. If one needs to upload data
with a POST request:
var req = ajax.request('/upload', 'POST', function(res) {
res.on('end', function() {
console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
console.log('BODY: ' + res.responseText);
});
});
req.on('error', function(e) {
console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
});
req.send('data\n');Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Anchor provides get() as
a convenience method. The only difference between this method and ajax.request()
is that it sets the method to GET and calls req.send() automatically.
ajax.get("/user.json", function(res) {
console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode);
}).on('error', function(e) {
console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
});This module uses the AMD format. To include in component builds, use component-amd:
component build -u component-amd
To run tests in a browser, execute the Make target for the desired browser:
$ make test-chrome
$ make test-firefox
$ make test-safari
Headless tests can be executed directly from a terminal:
$ make test-phantomjs
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