request/request-promise

Features

• Promise-Based HTTP Clients - Wraps callback-style HTTP requests into promise objects to manage asynchronous network flow without nesting.
• Asynchronous HTTP Calls - Enables making asynchronous HTTP requests using promises instead of traditional callbacks for simplified error and response handling.
• REST API Integrations - Sending and receiving JSON data through HTTP requests to communicate with web services and external application interfaces.
• HTTP Cookie Management - Manages session state across multiple network calls using a cookie jar to handle session cookies.
• Request Body Encoders - Provides mechanisms to encode request bodies as JSON, URL-encoded forms, or multipart data for standard web transfers.
• Node.js HTTP Clients - Serves as a comprehensive Node.js library for sending JSON, form data, and multipart requests to web servers.
• Session & Cookie Handlers - Uses a cookie jar to store and send cookies across multiple requests to maintain session state.
• Web Session Management - Maintains state across multiple network calls by storing and sending cookies using a cookie jar.
• Callback-to-Promise Converters - Transforms standard Node.js error-first callbacks into promise resolve and reject states for consistent async handling.
• Request Body Attachers - Transforms JavaScript objects into JSON or multipart form data strings before transmission over the network.
• API Error Handling - Allows configuration to determine if the promise should reject based on HTTP status codes or only on network failures.
• HTTP Response Processors - Captures full response objects and transforms raw body data into specific formats for application use.
• Request Cancellations - Provides the ability to abort active network requests to stop associated processes from resolving or rejecting.
• Configurable Promise Resolutions - Allows callers to decide whether non-success HTTP status codes trigger a promise rejection or a resolution.
• Full Response Captures - Enables returning the complete HTTP response object, including status codes and headers, instead of only the response body.
• API Response Transformations - Implements custom functions to transform raw response bodies into different formats before they are used by the application.

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