fms-js/src/filemakerserver.js

FileMaker Server Connection for Node and the browser

/**
 * Created by toddgeist on 3/30/15.
 */

'use strict'

var request = require('superagent');
var xml2jsParser = require('superagent-xml2jsparser');
var dbNamesRequest = require('./dbNamesRequest');
var database = require('./database');

var END_POINT = '/fmi/xml/fmresultset.xml'



/**
 * creates a FMS Connection
 * @param options
 * @returns {{post: Request, query: Function}}
 */
var connection = function (options) {

    var url = options.url;
    var protocol = options.protocol || 'http';
    var userName = options.userName;
    var password = options.password;


    var createPostRequest = function () {
        var post = request
            .post(protocol + '://' + url + END_POINT)
            .auth(userName, password)
            .accept('xml')
            .parse(xml2jsParser);
        return post
    };

    var db = function (name) {
        return database(createPostRequest, name)
    }

    return {
        dbnames : function(){return dbNamesRequest( createPostRequest() )},
        db : db
    }

}

module.exports = {
    connection : connection
}