http-asset v1.0.1

http-asset

Fetch, cache, and update some asset over http.

Useful for managing things like lists of manifest that are maintained in a remote place, but you need regular access to locally. Designed for use by esvm in order to download the list of available releases.

features

• filesystem backed caching of asset
• utilizes http caching headers
• falls back to cache on failure (offline support I guess?)

example

let HttpAsset = require('http-asset')
let asset = HttpAsset('https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/tags?per_page=100')
asset.get().then(labels => {
  // use labels
})

api

new HttpAsset(url, options = {})

Construct an asset object. url is where the asset should be downloaded from, options include:

asset.get() -> Promise

Get the body of a asset, returns a promise

let HttpAsset = require('http-asset')
let asset = HttpAsset('https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/tags?per_page=100')
asset.get().then(labels => {
  // use labels
})

asset.clear() -> Promise

Clears the value of the asset

// force a fetch
asset.clear().then(function () {
  return asset.get()
})