fogjs v0.4.0

FogJS is a port of Fog (for F#). The main project page for Fog can be found at http://fogjs.azurewebsites.net/.

FogJS

FogJS brings the cloud down to earth by adding a few features and abstractions to the Node.js Windows Azure API.

Building Azure apps with FogJS that need to interact with Azure Table Storage, Blob Storage, and the Service Bus is very easy. The examples that follow use this approach. Fog also provides more fine-grained interaction if that is desired, but adds a few features such as promises (with the help of Q.js, which is also under an MIT license). See the integration tests for examples.

Syntax

Blob Storage

Thanks to Q.js, you can use the typical API methods while also avoiding nested callbacks. Here's a quick example:

var fogBlob = require("../src/fogBlobStorage.js");
var azure = require('azure');
var blobService = azure.createBlobService();
var containerName = "testcontainer";

fogBlob.createContainerIfNotExists(blobService, containerName, {publicAccessLevel : 'blob'})
    .then(function() {
        return fogBlob.createBlockBlobFromText(
            blobService,
            containerName, 
            "testblob",
            "My super awesome text to upload"
        );
    });

You can simplify things even more by taking advantage of convention to eliminate the need to create a blobServer and create the container. This allows the previous example to be condensed to this:

var fogBlob = require("../src/fogBlobStorage.js"); 

var containerName = "testcontainer";
fogBlob.createBlockBlobFromText({
    "containerName": containerName, 
    "blobName" : "testblob", 
    "blobText": "My super awesome text to upload"
});

Here's an example of chaining together a create, followed by a get, followed by a delete.

var fogBlob = require("../src/fogBlobStorage.js"); 

var containerName = "testcontainer";
var blobName = "testblob";

fogBlob.createBlockBlobFromText({
    "containerName": containerName, 
    "blobName" : blobName, 
    "blobText": "My super awesome text to upload"
}).then(function() {
    return fogBlob.getBlobToText({
        "containerName": containerName, 
        "blobName" : blobName
    });
}).then(function(response) {
    console.log("The blob contains the text: " + response.text);
    return fogBlob.deleteBlob({
        "containerName": containerName, 
        "blobName" : blobName
    });                    
}).then(function(response) {
    console.log("done");
});

Table Storage

Table Storage has features similer to those already described for Blob Storage. The simple syntax looks like this:

var fog = require("../src/fogTableStorage.js");

var testTableName = "testTableName";
var rowKey = "myRowKey";
fog.insertEntity({
    "tableName" : testTableName,
    "entity": {
        "PartitionKey" : "testPartition",
        "RowKey" : rowKey,
        "MyCustomField" : "Legends of Awesomeness!"
    }
}).then(function(response){
    console.log(response.entity.RowKey);
    return fog.deleteEntity({
        "tableName" : testTableName, 
        "entityDescriptor": {  
            "PartitionKey" : "testPartition",
            "RowKey" : rowKey,
        }
    });
});
        

Service Bus

Interacting with the Azure Service Bus via Fog.js is a snap. In addition to providing versions of each function that return promises, the service bus API allows you to publish or recieve message without having to first create the queues. Using topics and subscriptions is also very easy.

Here's an example:

var fog = require("../src/fogTableStorage.js");

var queueName = "testQueue";

fog.receiveQueueMessage({"queuePath": queueName})
.then(function(response) {
    // Do what you wish with the message body by accessing: response.receivedMessage.body
});

fog.sendQueueMessage({ "queuePath" : queueName, "message" : "Test Message"});

How To Get It

You can get Fog.js from NPM as package ID

Releases

• 0.3.0 - Alpha release.
• 0.0.1 - Fog is not yet released.

MIT License

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