just a little utility to test some webservice

gistfile1.js

var http = require('http');

var host = 'test.domain.com';
var apiUrl = 'http://'+ host +'/api/v1';
var URI = require('URIjs');

var async = require('async');
var _ = require('underscore');
var cookies = {};

function data2query(data) {
  if (!_.size(data)) {
    return '';
  }
  return URI().query(data).toString().slice(1);
}

function doCall(resourceName, method, data, done) {
  var queryString = data2query(data);
  var options = {
    host: host,
    path: '/api/v1/'+ resourceName,
    method: method,
    headers: {}
  };
  var exited;

  _.extend(options.headers, {
    'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
    'Content-Length' : Buffer.byteLength(queryString, 'utf8')
  });

  if (cookies.SX_SID) {
    options.headers.Cookie = 'SX_SID='+ cookies.SX_SID.value;
  }

  var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    var body = '';

    // we add the chunk of received data to the body
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
      body = body + chunk;
    });

    // when the response ends...
    res.on('end', function() {
      // ... collect the cookies
      if (res.headers['set-cookie']) {
        _.each(res.headers['set-cookie'], function(cookie) {
          var parsed = (/([^=]+)=([^;]*);( Expires=(.*);|) Path=(.*)/ig).exec(cookie);
          if (!parsed) {
            exited = 1;
            return done(new Error('Could not parse the cookie: '+ cookie));
          }

          cookies[parsed[1]] = {
            value: parsed[2],
            expires: parsed[4] ? new Date(parsed[4]) : null,
            path: parsed[5]
          };
        });
      }
      
      // ... and we parse the complete body
      var json;
      if (!exited) {
        exited = 1;
        try {
          json = JSON.parse(body.toString());
          if (json.message) {
            console.info(method, resourceName, 'json.message', json.message);
          }
          done(null, {
            statusCode: res.statusCode,
            requestHeaders: options.headers,
            responseHeaders: res.headers,
            data: json
          });
        }
        catch (e) {
          done(null, {
            'JSON-ERROR': e.message,
            statusCode: res.statusCode,
            requestHeaders: options.headers,
            responseHeaders: res.headers,
            body: body
          });
        }
      }
    });
  });

  req.write(queryString);
  req.on('error', function(e) {
    if (!exited) {
      exited = 1;
      done(e);
    }
  });
  req.end();
}

cbs['POST sessions'] = function(done) {
  doCall('sessions', 'POST', {
    mail: '',
    password: ''
  }, done);
};

cbs['GET customers'] = function(done) {
  doCall('customers', 'GET', {}, done);
};

cbs['GET vehicle-types'] = function(done) {
  doCall('vehicle-types', 'GET', {}, done);
};

async.series(cbs, function(err, results) {
  if (err) {
    throw err;
  }

  // console.info('stack completed without error', JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
});

oh.. BTW... not yet finished, cookies need dome love