db-vendo-client/docs/readme.md
2025-01-20 20:30:58 +00:00

154 lines
6.4 KiB
Markdown
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

# `db-vendo-client` documentation
**[JS API documentation](api.md)**
[REST API OpenAPI schema](openapi.yaml) ([open in Swagger Editor](https://editor.swagger.io/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/public-transport/db-vendo-client/refs/heads/main/docs/openapi.yaml))
## Migrating from an old (v5) `hafas-client` version
`db-vendo-client` tries to be as compatible as possible with `hafas-client` v6. If you were still on v5 or earlier, see the [`5` → `6` migration guide](https://github.com/public-transport/hafas-client/blob/main/docs/migrating-to-6.md) of `hafas-client`.
## Throttling requests
There's opt-in support for throttling requests to the endpoint.
```js
import {createClient} from 'db-vendo-client'
import {withThrottling} from 'db-vendo-client/throttle.js'
import {profile as dbProfile} from 'db-vendo-client/p/db/index.js'
const userAgent = 'link-to-your-project-or-email' // adapt this to your project!
// create a throttled HAFAS client with Deutsche Bahn profile
const client = createClient(withThrottling(dbProfile), userAgent)
// Berlin Jungfernheide to München Hbf
await client.journeys('8011167', '8000261', {results: 1})
```
You can also pass custom values for the nr of requests (`limit`) per interval into `withThrottling`:
```js
// 2 requests per second
const throttledDbProfile = withThrottling(dbProfile, 2, 1000)
const client = createClient(throttledDbProfile, userAgent)
```
## Retrying failed requests
There's opt-in support for retrying failed requests to the endpoint.
```js
import {createClient} from 'db-vendo-client'
import {withRetrying} from 'db-vendo-client/retry.js'
import {profile as dbProfile} from 'db-vendo-client/p/db/index.js'
const userAgent = 'link-to-your-project-or-email' // adapt this to your project!
// create a client with Deutsche Bahn profile that will retry on HAFAS errors
const client = createClient(withRetrying(dbProfile), userAgent)
```
You can pass custom options into `withRetrying`. They will be passed into [`retry`](https://github.com/tim-kos/node-retry#tutorial).
```js
// retry 2 times, after 10 seconds & 30 seconds
const retryingDbProfile = withRetrying(dbProfile, {
retries: 2,
minTimeout: 10 * 1000,
factor: 3
})
const client = createClient(retryingDbProfile, userAgent)
```
## User agent randomization
By default, `db-vendo-client` does not randomize the client name that you pass into `createClient`, and sends it as [`User-Agent`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent) as it is. At least DB Navigator always sends the same user agent as well (cf. `dbnav` profile). You can turn on randomization by setting `profile.randomizeUserAgent` to `false`:
```js
const client = createClient({
...someProfile,
randomizeUserAgent: true,
}, userAgent)
```
## Logging requests
You can use `profile.logRequest` and `profile.logResponse` to process the raw [Fetch](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) [`Request`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) and [`Response`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response), respectively.
As an example, we can implement a custom logger:
```js
import {createClient} from 'db-vendo-client'
import {profile as dbProfile} from 'db-vendo-client/p/db/index.js'
const userAgent = 'link-to-your-project-or-email' // adapt this to your project!
const logRequest = (ctx, fetchRequest, requestId) => {
// ctx looks just like with the other profile.* hooks:
const {dbProfile, opt} = ctx
console.debug(requestId, fetchRequest.headers, fetchRequest.body + '')
}
const logResponse = (ctx, fetchResponse, body, requestId) => {
console.debug(requestId, fetchResponse.headers, body + '')
}
// create a client with Deutsche Bahn profile that debug-logs
const client = createClient({
...dbProfile,
logRequest,
logResponse,
}, userAgent)
```
```js
// logRequest output:
'29d0e3' {
accept: 'application/json',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip, br, deflate',
'content-type': 'application/json',
connection: 'keep-alive',
'user-agent': 'hafas842c51-clie842c51nt debug C842c51LI'
} {"lang":"de","svcReqL":[{"cfg":{"polyEnc":"GPA"},"meth":"LocMatch",
// logResponse output:
'29d0e3' {
'content-encoding': 'gzip',
'content-length': '1010',
'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
date: 'Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:31:09 GMT',
server: 'Apache',
vary: 'User-Agent'
} {"ver":"1.45","lang":"deu","id":"sb42zgck4mxtxm4s","err":"OK","graph"
```
The default `profile.logRequest` [`console.error`](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v10.x/api/console.html#console_console_error_data_args)s the request body, if you have set `$DEBUG` to `hafas-client`. Likewise, `profile.logResponse` `console.error`s the response body.
## Error handling
Unexpected errors e.g. due to bugs in `db-vendo-client` itself aside, its methods may reject with the following errors:
- `Error` A generic error, e.g. if the DB backend returned a HTTP error.
- `HafasError` A generic error to signal that something HAFAS-related went wrong, either in the client, or in the HAFAS endpoint.
Each `HafasError` error has the following properties:
- `isHafasError` Always `true`. Allows you to differente HAFAS-related errors from e.g. network errors.
- `code` A string representing the error type for all other error classes, e.g. `INVALID_REQUEST` for `HafasInvalidRequestError`. `null` for plain `HafasError`s.
- `isCausedByServer` Boolean, telling you if the HAFAS endpoint says that it couldn't process your request because *it* is unavailable/broken.
- `hafasCode` A HAFAS-specific error code, if the HAFAS endpoint returned one; e.g. `H890` when no journeys could be found. `null` otherwise.
- `request` The [Fetch API `Request`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) of the request.
- `url` The URL of the request.
- `response` The [Fetch API `Response`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response).
## Using `db-vendo-client` from another language
If you want to use `db-vendo-client` to access DB APIs but work with non-Node.js environments, you can use it together with [hafas-rest-api](https://github.com/public-transport/hafas-rest-api) to create a REST API (see the [root readme](https://github.com/public-transport/db-vendo-client/tree/main#usage) and the Docker image).
Or use [`hafas-client-rpc`](https://github.com/derhuerst/hafas-client-rpc) to create a [JSON-RPC](https://www.jsonrpc.org) interface that you can send commands to.
## General documentation and notes for DB APIs
[`db-apis.md`](db-apis.md)