ketting/src/http/util.ts

Opiniated HATEAOS / Rest client.

import * as LinkHeader from 'http-link-header';
import { Links } from '../link';

/**
 * Takes a Content-Type header, and only returns the mime-type part.
 */
export function parseContentType(contentType: string | null): string | null {

  if (!contentType) {
    return null;
  }
  if (contentType.includes(';')) {
    contentType = contentType.split(';')[0];
  }
  return contentType.trim();

}


export function parseLink(context: string, header: string|null): Links {

  const result = new Links(context);
  if (!header) {
    return result;
  }

  for (const httpLink of LinkHeader.parse(header).refs) {
    // Looping through individual links
    for (const rel of httpLink.rel.split(' ')) {
      // Looping through space separated rel values.
      const link = {
        rel: rel,
        href: httpLink.uri,
        context,
        title: httpLink.title,
        hreflang: httpLink.hreflang,
        type: httpLink.type,
      };
      result.add(link);
    }
  }
  return result;
}

const safeMethods = ['GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'PRI', 'PROPFIND', 'REPORT', 'SEARCH', 'TRACE'];

export function isSafeMethod(method: string): boolean {
  return safeMethods.includes(method);
}