Consul-kv-parser NPM

consul-kv-parser

Gets provided keys from Consul KV store, and puts them into an object structure, based on folders in Consul. Values can be parsed into provided types and a check for required properties is done.

const parser = require("consul-kv-parser");
const Parser = new parser({
    parser: {
        prefix: "production"
  	},
  	consul: {
        host: "localhost",
        promisify: true
    }
});

//connects to Consul
Parser.connect();
let keys = [
  {key: "some/key", require: true},
  {key: "some/other/num", type: parser.types.number}
];

//parse returns a promise which resolves into object containing 
//parsed values
Parser.parse(key).then((values) => console.log(values));
//will result in this object
{
	some: {
    key: "some value",
    other: {
        num: 123
    }
  }    
}

Installation

npm i --save consul-kv-parser

Configuration

Consul configuration

consul-kv-parser uses (node-consul)https://github.com/silas/node-consul to handle conenction to Consul, so you can simply use the same configuration here:

const parser = require("consul-kv-parser");
const config = {
  consul: {
    host: "localhost",
    promisify: true
  }
}
const Parser = new parser(config);
//connect to consul
Parser.connect();

Important note: only promise answered are supported, so if you don't provide promisify parameter it will be set automatically!

Parser configuration

You can specify prefix that will be appended at the beginning of all keys, by providing prefix config parameter to parser object inside configuration:

const parser = require("consul-kv-parser");
const config = {
  parser: {
    prefix: "production"
  }
}
const Parser = new parser(config);
//all keys will be prefixed with "production/" string

Resulting object won't have prefix as a root property

Sample configuration

const parser = require("consul-kv-parser");
const config = {
  parser: {
    prefix: "production"
  },
  consul: {
    host: "localhost",
    promisify: true
  }
}
const Parser = new parser(config);

Parsing and keys configuration

They keys that you pass to parse method of the parser must be an array of objects of this structure:

let keys = [
	{
    key: "some/key", //required property
    type: parser.types().number, //optional property
    require: true //optional property
  }
];

Key property

In consul you can have folders to store values, the parse will divide the key that you provide by / character and put the value on the appropriate level of the object.

So, if you provide the key some/key/here you will get this object: {some: {key: {here: VALUE}}}

Type property

You can specify the type of the value stored in Consul, to let parser know how to parse it, available types are:

const parser = require("consul-kv-parser");

parser.types.string //will return the string that is stored in consul
parser.types.number //will parse both floats and integers
parser.types.object //assumes it contains s stringified version of the object

If you don't provide any type, the string parser will be used