universal-analytics/lib/request.js

A node module for Google's Universal Analytics tracking

`use strict`

const http = require('http');
const https = require('https');
const url = require('url');
const debug = require("debug")("universal-analytics");

function getProtocol(path) {
  return url.parse(path).protocol === "http:" ? http : https;
}

/**
 * Send a post request
 * @param path is the url endpoint
 * @param headers of the request
 * @param callback contains (error, body, status, headers)
 * @param data a JSON Object or a string
 */
function post(path, data, headers, callback) {
  request(path, "POST", data, headers, callback);
}

/**
 * Send a custom request
 * @param path is the url endpoint
 * @param headers of the request
 * @param callback contains (error, statusCode, data)
 * @param data a JSON Object or a string
 * @param method is the protocol used like POST GET DELETE PUT etc...
 */
function request(path, method, body, headers = {}, callback) {
  const { hostname, port, pathname } = url.parse(path);
  const options = {
    hostname,
    port,
    path: pathname,
    method,
    headers
  };

  const req = getProtocol(path).request(options, function (response) {
    handleResponse(response, callback);
  });

  req.on('error', function (error) {
    callback(error);
    debug('Request error', error);
  });

  req.write(body);

  req.end();
}

function handleResponse(response, callback) {
  let body = '';
  const { headers, statusCode } = response
  const hasError = statusCode >= 300;

  response.setEncoding('utf8');

  response.on('data', function (data) {
    body += data;
  });

  response.on('end', function () {
    callback(hasError ? body : null, hasError ? null : body, statusCode, headers);
  });
}

module.exports = {
  post
};