Endpoint

Endpoint are for any asynchronous function (one that returns a Promise).

Endpoints define a standard interface to extend the function with relevant metadata and lifecycles useful for Reactive Data Client and other stores.

Package: @data-client/endpoint

tip

Endpoint is a protocol independent class. Try using the protocol specific patterns REST, GraphQL, or getImage instead.

Interface

Interface

export interface EndpointInterface<
  F extends FetchFunction = FetchFunction,
  S extends Schema | undefined = Schema | undefined,
  M extends true | undefined = true | undefined,
> extends EndpointExtraOptions<F> {
  (...args: Parameters<F>): InferReturn<F, S>;
  key(...args: Parameters<F>): string;
  readonly sideEffect?: M;
  readonly schema?: S;
}

Class

class Endpoint<F extends (...args: any) => Promise<any>>
  implements EndpointInterface
{
  constructor(fetchFunction: F, options: EndpointOptions);

  key(...args: Parameters<F>): string;

  readonly sideEffect?: true;

  readonly schema?: Schema;

  fetch: F;

  extend(options: EndpointOptions): Endpoint;
}

export interface EndpointOptions extends EndpointExtraOptions {
  key?: (params: any) => string;
  sideEffect?: true | undefined;
  schema?: Schema;
}

EndpointExtraOptions

export interface EndpointExtraOptions<F extends FetchFunction = FetchFunction> {
  /** Default data expiry length, will fall back to NetworkManager default if not defined */
  readonly dataExpiryLength?: number;
  /** Default error expiry length, will fall back to NetworkManager default if not defined */
  readonly errorExpiryLength?: number;
  /** Poll with at least this frequency in miliseconds */
  readonly pollFrequency?: number;
  /** Marks cached resources as invalid if they are stale */
  readonly invalidIfStale?: boolean;
  /** Enables optimistic updates for this request - uses return value as assumed network response */
  readonly getOptimisticResponse?: (
    snap: SnapshotInterface,
    ...args: Parameters<F>
  ) => ResolveType<F>;
  /** Determines whether to throw or fallback to */
  readonly errorPolicy?: (error: any) => 'soft' | undefined;
  /** User-land extra data to send */
  readonly extra?: any;
}

Usage

Endpoint makes existing async functions usable in any Reactive Data Client context with full TypeScript enforcement.

▶interface

export interface Todo {
  id: number;
  userId: number;
  title: string;
  completed: boolean;
}

▶api

import { Todo } from './interface';

const getTodoOriginal = (id: number): Promise<Todo> =>
  Promise.resolve({
    id,
    title: 'delectus aut autem ' + id,
    completed: false,
    userId: 1,
  });

export const getTodo = new Endpoint(getTodoOriginal);

▶React

import { getTodo } from './api';

function TodoDetail() {
  const todo = useSuspense(getTodo, 1);
  return <div>{todo.title}</div>;
}
render(<TodoDetail />);

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Lifecycle

Success

Error

Endpoint Members

Members double as options (second constructor arg). While none are required, the first few have defaults.

key: (params) => string

Serializes the parameters. This is used to build a lookup key in global stores.

Default:

`${this.name} ${JSON.stringify(params)}`;

Overrides

When overriding key, be sure to also include an updated testKey if you intend on using that method.

testKey(key): boolean

Returns true if the provided (fetch) key matches this endpoint.

This is used for mock interceptors with with <MockResolver />

name: string

Used in key to distinguish endpoints. Should be globally unique.

Defaults to this.fetch.name

warning

This may break in production builds that change function names. This is often know as function name mangling.

In these cases you can override name or disable function mangling.

sideEffect: true | undefined

Used to indicate endpoint might have side-effects (non-idempotent). This restricts it from being used with useSuspense() or useFetch() as those can hit the endpoint an unpredictable number of times.

schema: Schema

Declarative definition of how to process responses

• where to expect Entities
• Functions to deserialize fields

Not providing this option means no entities will be extracted.

import { Entity } from '@data-client/normalizr';
import { Endpoint } from '@data-client/endpoint';

class User extends Entity {
  readonly id: string = '';
  readonly username: string = '';

  pk() { return this.id;}
}

const UserDetail = new Endpoint(
    ({ id }) ⇒ fetch(`/users/${id}`),
    { schema: User }
);

extend(EndpointOptions): Endpoint

Can be used to further customize the endpoint definition

const UserDetail = new Endpoint(({ id }) ⇒ fetch(`/users/${id}`));


const UserDetailNormalized = UserDetail.extend({ schema: User });

In addition to the members, fetch can be sent to override the fetch function.

EndpointExtraOptions

dataExpiryLength?: number

Custom data cache lifetime for the fetched resource. Will override the value set in NetworkManager.

Learn more about expiry time

errorExpiryLength?: number

Custom data error lifetime for the fetched resource. Will override the value set in NetworkManager.

errorPolicy?: (error: any) => 'soft' | undefined

'soft' will use stale data (if exists) in case of error; undefined or not providing option will result in error.

Learn more about errorPolicy

invalidIfStale: boolean

Indicates stale data should be considered unusable and thus not be returned from the cache. This means that useSuspense() will suspend when data is stale even if it already exists in cache.

pollFrequency: number

Frequency in millisecond to poll at. Requires using useSubscription() or useLive() to have an effect.

getOptimisticResponse: (snap, ...args) => fakePayload

When provided, any fetches with this endpoint will behave as though the fakePayload return value from this function was a succesful network response. When the actual fetch completes (regardless of failure or success), the optimistic update will be replaced with the actual network response.

Optimistic update guide

update(normalizedResponseOfThis, ...args) => ({ [endpointKey]: (normalizedResponseOfEndpointToUpdate) => updatedNormalizedResponse) })

UpdateType.ts

type UpdateFunction<
  Source extends EndpointInterface,
  Updaters extends Record<string, any> = Record<string, any>,
> = (
  source: ResultEntry<Source>,
  ...args: Parameters<Source>
) => { [K in keyof Updaters]: (result: Updaters[K]) => Updaters[K] };

Simplest case:

userEndpoint.ts

const createUser = new Endpoint(postToUserFunction, {
  schema: User,
  update: (newUserId: string) => ({
    [userList.key()]: (users = []) => [newUserId, ...users],
  }),
});

More updates:

Component.tsx

const allusers = useSuspense(userList);
const adminUsers = useSuspense(userList, { admin: true });

The endpoint below ensures the new user shows up immediately in the usages above.

userEndpoint.ts

const createUser = new Endpoint(postToUserFunction, {
  schema: User,
  update: (newUserId, newUser)  => {
    const updates = {
      [userList.key()]: (users = []) => [newUserId, ...users],
    ];
    if (newUser.isAdmin) {
      updates[userList.key({ admin: true })] = (users = []) => [newUserId, ...users];
    }
    return updates;
  },
});

See usage with Resource or RestEndpoint

Examples

Basic

import { Endpoint } from '@data-client/endpoint';

const UserDetail = new Endpoint(
  ({ id }) ⇒ fetch(`/users/${id}`).then(res => res.json())
);

With Schema

import { Endpoint } from '@data-client/endpoint';
import { Entity } from '@data-client/react';

class User extends Entity {
  readonly id: string = '';
  readonly username: string = '';

  pk() { return this.id; }
}

const UserDetail = new Endpoint(
  ({ id }) ⇒ fetch(`/users/${id}`).then(res => res.json()),
  { schema: User }
);

List

import { Endpoint } from '@data-client/endpoint';
import { Entity } from '@data-client/react';

class User extends Entity {
  readonly id: string = '';
  readonly username: string = '';

  pk() { return this.id; }
}

const UserList = new Endpoint(
  () ⇒ fetch(`/users/`).then(res => res.json()),
  { schema: [User] }
);

React

function UserProfile() {
  const user = useSuspense(UserDetail, { id });
  const ctrl = useController();

  return <UserForm user={user} onSubmit={() => ctrl.fetch(UserDetail)} />;
}

JS/Node Schema

const user = await UserDetail({ id: '5' });
console.log(user);

Additional

• Pagination
• Mocking unfinished endpoints
• Optimistic updates

Motivation

There is a distinction between

• What are networking API is
  • How to make a request, expected response fields, etc.
• How it is used
  • Binding data, polling, triggering imperative fetch, etc.

Thus, there are many benefits to creating a distinct seperation of concerns between these two concepts.

With TypeScript Standard Endpoints, we define a standard for declaring in TypeScript the definition of a networking API.

• Allows API authors to publish npm packages containing their API interfaces
• Definitions can be consumed by any supporting library, allowing easy consumption across libraries like Vue, React, Angular
• Writing codegen pipelines becomes much easier as the output is minimal
• Product developers can use the definitions in a multitude of contexts where behaviors vary
• Product developers can easily share code across platforms with distinct behaviors needs like React Native and React Web

What's in an Endpoint

• A function that resolves the results
• A function to uniquely store those results
• Optional: information about how to store the data in a normalized cache
• Optional: whether the request could have side effects - to prevent repeat calls

See also

• Index