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Text Routes

Overview

Begin text routes respond with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain, and support routes with GET.

Each text route (example: GET /robots.txt) in your app is assigned a folder in your project under src/text/ (i.e. src/text/get-000param/).

Within your project, each route can contain and utilize an arbitrary quantity of modules, packages, and other files (so long as the total uncompressed size of that route's folder is ≤5MB).

Note: Begin routes are plain AWS Lambda functions, and can function without requiring @architect/functions. However, we do not suggest removing that require, as you will lose middleware and session support.

GET routes

Let's look at the default code for new text GET routes:

// src/text/get-*/index.js
let begin = require('@architect/functions')

function route(req, res) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(req, null, 2))
  res({
    text: 'hello world'
  })
}

exports.handler = begin.text.get(route)

begin.text.get()

Invoked by the route's handler, begin.text.get() accepts one or more functions that follow an Express-style middleware signature: (req, res, next)

Parameters

req

req returns a JavaScript object with the following keys:

  • method - HTTP method (always returns get)
  • path - path requested (i.e. /robots.txt)
  • headers - object containing HTTP request headers
  • query - object containing query string fields & values
  • body - always returns empty object
  • params - object containing path params (returned empty unless your route contains params)
  • session - object containing session data
  • csrf - signed cross-site request forgery token (generated with all requests, but primarily intended to be used with HTML POST routes)

res()

res() is a function that must be invoked; it accepts a JavaScript object with the following keys:

  • Either text or location (required)
    • text - a string containing text content
    • location - a URL, either absolute or relative; sets HTTP status to 302 without using the status key
  • session (optional) - object containing session data
  • status (optional) - alternately code or statusCode, sets HTTP error status code, supports the following values:
    • 400 - Bad Request
    • 403 - Forbidden
    • 404 - Not Found
    • 406 - Not Acceptable
    • 409 - Conflict
    • 415 - Unsupported Media Type
    • 500 - Internal Server Error

res() can also be invoked with an instance of Error. You can also optionally define the Error object's HTTP status code by adding to it a status, code, or statusCode property (with one of the seven status codes above).

next (optional)

Callback argument to continue execution.

GET examples

Examples coming shortly, please stand by!

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