Module: TypekitClient::HttpRequest

Defined in:
lib/typekit_client/http_request.rb

Constant Summary collapse

BASE_URI = 
'https://typekit.com/api/v1'
REQUEST_TYPE =

This allow us to not pass strings to determine the request type.

{
    :GET => Net::HTTP::Get,
    :POST => Net::HTTP::Post,
    :DELETE => Net::HTTP::Delete
}

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.execute_request(request) ⇒ Object

Private: Makes http calls with given request. It can be any http request such as get, post, delete.

request- request instance such as Net::HTTP::Get.new(), Net::HTTP::POST.new()

Returns the response object Raises error when there is a timeout issue or internet connection is down



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# File 'lib/typekit_client/http_request.rb', line 61

def self.execute_request(request)
  http = Net::HTTP.new(request.uri.host, request.uri.port)
  http.use_ssl = true if request.uri.to_s.include? 'https'

  http.request(request)
end

.request(uri_string, type, format, body = nil) ⇒ Object

Public: This function makes network calls to the Typekit API depending on the parameters passed and returns the response from the server. The function can make 3 types of HTTP calls including get, post, delete

uri_string- The uri string to be appended to the base uri type- the type of HTTP request to make format- format of the response data body- hash to set as request body for POST requests

Example:

request('kits',:GET, 'json', {kits: ''})
=> # Net::HTTPResponse object

It returns the response from the request if there are no runtime errors



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# File 'lib/typekit_client/http_request.rb', line 33

def self.request(uri_string, type, format, body=nil)

  request = REQUEST_TYPE[type].new(URI.parse("#{BASE_URI}/#{format}/#{uri_string}"))
  request['X-Typekit-Token'] = TypekitClient::TOKEN_CACHE.get("token")

  request.body = Rack::Utils.build_nested_query(body) if body

  response = execute_request(request)

  # clear the cache if the response code is not 401(unauthorized)
  TypekitClient::TOKEN_CACHE.clear if response.code == '401'

  return response
rescue SocketError
  puts "Socket Error, Please check your internet connection.".red
rescue Net::OpenTimeout
  puts "The request timed out when trying to connect, please check your connection.".red
end