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let customBackendURL: string;
/**
* get the domain of the api backend
* @return string domain of backend http://x.x.x.x/bla
*/
export function getBackendDomain(): string {
let userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (userAgent.indexOf(' electron/') > -1) {
// Electron-specific code - force a custom backendurl
return (customBackendURL);
} else {
// use custom only if defined
if (customBackendURL) {
return (customBackendURL);
} else {
return (window.location.origin);
}
}
}
/**
* set a custom backend domain
* @param domain a url in format [http://x.x.x.x/somanode]
*/
export function setCustomBackendDomain(domain: string) {
customBackendURL = domain;
}
/**
* a helper function to get the api path
*/
function getAPIDomain(): string {
return getBackendDomain() + '/api/';
}
/**
* interface how an api request should look like
*/
interface ApiBaseRequest {
action: string,
[_: string]: string
}
/**
* helper function to build a formdata for requesting post data correctly
* @param args api request object
*/
function buildFormData(args: ApiBaseRequest): FormData {
const req = new FormData();
for (const i in args) {
req.append(i, args[i]);
}
return req;
}
/**
* A backend api call
* @param apinode which api backend handler to call
* @param fd the object to send to backend
* @param callback the callback with json reply from backend
* @param errorcallback a optional callback if an error occured
*/
export function callAPI(apinode: string, fd: ApiBaseRequest, callback: (_: object) => void, errorcallback: (_: object) => void = (_: object) => {
}): void {
fetch(getAPIDomain() + apinode, {method: 'POST', body: buildFormData(fd)})
.then((response) => response.json()
.then((result) => {
callback(result);
})).catch(reason => errorcallback(reason));
}
/**
* A backend api call
* @param apinode which api backend handler to call
* @param fd the object to send to backend
* @param callback the callback with PLAIN text reply from backend
*/
export function callAPIPlain(apinode: string, fd: ApiBaseRequest, callback: (_: any) => void): void {
fetch(getAPIDomain() + apinode, {method: 'POST', body: buildFormData(fd)})
.then((response) => response.text()
.then((result) => {
callback(result);
}));
}