Update httpPost.md

This commit is contained in:
Angelos Chalaris
2018-01-10 21:31:28 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent 823fc92534
commit 4b906d2094

View File

@ -2,29 +2,38 @@
Makes a `POST` request to the passed URL.
Use `XMLHttpRequest` web api to make a `post` request to the given `url`.
Use [`XMLHttpRequest`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHttpRequest) web api to make a `post` request to the given `url`.
Set the value of an `HTTP` request header with `setRequestHeader` method.
Handle the `onload` event, by console logging the `responseText`.
Handle the `onload` event, by calling the given `callback` the `responseText`.
Handle the `onerror` event, by running the provided `err` function.
Omit the third argument, `data`, to send no data to the provided `url`.
Omit the fourth argument, `err`, to log errors to the console's `error` stream by default.
```js
const httpPost = (url, data, err = console.error) => {
const httpPost = (url, callback, data = null, err = console.error) => {
const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("POST", url, true);
request.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/json; charset=utf-8');
request.onload = () => console.log(request.responseText);
request.onload = () => callback(request.responseText);
request.onerror = () => err(request);
request.send(data);
};
```
```js
const user = {
name: "Foo",
password: "fooBar"
const newPost = {
"userId": 1,
"id": 1337,
"title": "Foo",
"body": "bar bar bar"
};
const data = JSON.stringify(user);
httpPost('https://website.com/posts', data, request => {
console.log(request.responseText);
}); // ''
const data = JSON.stringify(newPost);
httpPost('https://website.com/posts', console.log, data; /*
Logs: {
"userId": 1,
"id": 1337,
"title": "Foo",
"body": "bar bar bar"
}
*/
```