noelnole / koa-config-client

Configuration Client to recovery the properties of a configuration service

Configuration Client

Koa middleware tha revocery the properties of a configuration service.

Usage

Nowadays ir really common have the configuration of your application externalized, so with this middleware you can recover in json format your properties from a configuration service as the configuration service of Spring framework.

Configuration

Before use the koa-config-client is necessary configurate de file configuration.json, this file will be in the root of your application:

1. Url of the configuration service.

2. Label of the application.

3. Name, application name.

4. Profile of your application.

5. Attempts, number of attempst in case the connection with the service fail.

6. Delay, time between attempts.

7. Logging, level of the logging.

When do the library return an 405, Method not allowed ?

1. If service is down.

2. If the url is bad formatted.

Retrieving the property

If you want recover a property you have to pass it as parameter.

Example

* var koa = require('koa');
* var configClient = require(koa-config-client);
* var app = new koa();
* app.use(configClient());
* configClient.property("security.audience");

Additional Information

If you want to use this library, you need at least node v.6.9.2 and Harmony or Babel.