Kreiranje servera sa Node.js


Kreiranje servera bez biblioteke

node.js server

Za kreiranje servera je potreban http/https objekat koji je ugradjen u core node.js-a te ga možemo importovati kao modul. Postoje dve opcije modula:

  • http – Http je jedan od ugrađenih modula koji dolazi sa Node.js i omogućava kreiranje servera za prihvatanje zahteva od klijenta i vraćanje odgovora
  • https – Https modul uključuje sve osnovne karakteristike http-a, ali sa dodatnim opcijama za rukovanje potrebnim bezbednosnim razlikama poput sertifikata.

Kada importujemo jedan od ova dva modula, on će nam vratiti “http/https” objekat, kao u sledećem primeru:

const http = require('http');

Sada kada imamo http objekat iskoristićemo ga za kreiranje servera koristeći metodu createServer():

const server = http.createServer()

Da bi server započeo “osluškivanje” zahteva moramo ga startovati, to se radi pozivanjem metode listen():

listen(port, hostname, backlog, callback)

Metoda listen() prihvata četri opciona parametra, a mi ćemo koristi samo prvi parametar koji definiše port:

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer()
server.listen(3000);

Zahtev ka serveru se upućuje sa ove adrese "http://localhost:3000". Za zaustavljanje rada server možemo korisiti njegovu metodu close().

Callback za reagovanje na zahtev tzv. requestListener()

U prethodnom primeru je kreiran server ali nema nikakvu funkcionalnost, da bi ovaj server ipak reagovao na neki zahtev potrebno je da mu se kreira neki event listener koji će osluškivati zahteve ka serveru. To možemo uraditi na standardni tzv. event-based način sa metodom on():

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer()
server.on("request", (request, response) => {
  // handle requests
})
server.listen(3000);

Medjutim ovakav pristup se najčešće ne koristi (mada je potpuno validan), već se metodi createServer() kao parametar prosedjuje funkcija (tzv. requestListener()) koja reaguje na zahtev i koja sama automatski dodaje “request” event.

const http = require('http');
const requestListener = function(request, response) {
   // handle requests
}
const server = http.createServer(requestListener);
server.listen(3000);

zbog jednostavnosti najbolje je koristi anonimnu funkciju:

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer(function(request, response) {
   // handle requests
});
server.listen(3000);

Prihvatanje GET zahteva i odgovor

Prihvatanje zahteva

Uz zahtev serveru se šalje request objekat i njemu možemo da pristupimo kroz parametar “request”. To je prilično “veliki” objekat koji nosi puno informacija u svojim svojstvima i metodama, pa ih možemo iskoristi za sadržaj body-ja odgovora (npr. svojstva method, url, headers):

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    let headers = request.headers;
    let method = request.method;
    let url = request.url;

    if (method === "GET" && url === "/") {
      console.log(request.url + "\n");
      console.log(request.headers + "\n");
      console.log(request);

    //hendle some response
    }
  }
)
server.listen(3000);

Parsiranje query-ja iz url adrese

Ukoliko je zahtev pošiljaoca specifičan on će ga proslediti kroz url (npr. http://host:8000/?name=Pera), te je stoga neophodno parsirati url i izvući podatke iz njega. Za parsiranje ćemo koristi node.js-ov modul “url”.

var http = require('http');
var url = require('url');
var server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    var queryData = url.parse(request.url, true).query;

    //ukoliko u url-u (npr. http://host:8000/?name=Pera) postoji promenjiva "name"
    //možemo je izčupati iz url-a i kasnije iskoristi u odgovoru servera:
    var imeIzZahteva = queryData.name;
});
server.listen(3000);

Odgovor servera

a) API based odgovor

Za kreiranje osnovnog odgovora (response) ćemo koristi svojstva response objekata: statusCode i njegove metode: setHeader(), write() i end():

response.statusCode = 200
response.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
response.write("neki sadržaj body-ja")
response.end()

Za odgovor servera možemo iskoristi neke od podatak koje dobijamo iz request objekta:

// Url zahteva = http://localhost:3000/"

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    let headers = request.headers;
    let method = request.method;
    let url = request.url;
    const responseBody = {
        headers,
        method,
        url,
        body: ["item1", "item2", "item3"]
    }

    if (method === "GET" && url === "/") {
      response.statusCode = 200
      response.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
      response.write(JSON.stringify(responseBody))
      response.end()
    }
  }
)
server.listen(3000);

U prethodnom primeru je definisan najjednostavniji header odgovora, ovde možete pogledati kako može da izgleda standardni header.

NAPOMENA:
U prethodnom primeru možemo iskoristili prednosti koje donosi destrukturiranje objekta tako da veoma jednostavno kreiramo promenjive headers, method i url. Pogledajte ovde kako bi izgledao prethodni primer kada bi se koristilo destruktuiranje objekta, više o destrukturiranju objekta pogledajte u članku “Destruktuiranje u JavaScriptu”

b) HTML odgovor

U prethodnim primerima su odgovori (response) bili tzv. “API based”, ali ako hoćemo da vratimo html onda ćemo to uraditi slično sledećem primeru:

// Url zahteva = http://localhost:3000/"

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    const { method, url } = request

    if (method === "GET" && url === "/") {
        response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html")
        response.statusCode = 200
        response.end(
          `<!doctype html>
            <html>
            <body>
                <h2>Ovo je title</h2>
                <p>Ovo je neki tekst</p>
            </body>
            </html>`
        )
    }
  }
)
server.listen(3000);

Ako je u prethodnom primeru url sa kojom pošiljalac šalje zahtev tipa http://localhost:3000/?name=Pera, onda će pošiljalac dobiti odgovor “Zdravo Pera” u suprotnom će dobiti odgovor “Hello World”.

Primanje podataka poslatih sa POST/PUT metodom

Pored get metode koja vidljivo šalje podatke u okviru url-a, možemo “nevidljivo” poslalti podatke serveru ukoliko koristimo POST metodu. Obično se ovaj metod koristi kada šaljemo prikupljene podatke iz forme. U ovome primeru formu ćemo generisati na serveru kada klijent pošalje zahtev za stranicu sa url-om: http://localhost:3000:

const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    const { method, url } = request

    if (method === "GET" && url==="/") {
        response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html")
        response.statusCode = 200
        response.end(`<!doctype html>
          <html>
          <body>
              <form action="/message" method="post">
                  <input type="text" name="fname" /><br />
                  <input type="number" name="age" /><br />
                  <input type="file" name="photo" /><br />
                  <button>Save</button>
              </form>
          </body>
          </html>
        `)
    }
  }
)
server.listen(3000);

Rezult ovog zahteva na klijentu ovako izgleda:

forma POST

Kada korisnik unese podatke u formu i klikne na dugme “Save”, zbog definisanog HTML atributa “action” će se podaci iz forme poslati na stranicu sa url-om /message, i uz njega će se kreirati novi zahtev koji će proslediti podatke. Prikupljeni podaci iz forme se šalju kao “readable streams” i mogu izgledati ovako:

localefname=NekoIme&age=15&photo=naziv_izabrane_slike.png

Šta su STREAMS?
Streams su način za efikasno rukovanje bilo kojom vrstom razmene informacija (koristi se takodje za čitanje/pisanje datoteka, mrežnom komunikacijom…). Streams nisu koncept jedinstven samo za Node.js, već postoje u okviru operativnog sistema Unix više decenija. Za razliku od tradicionalanog načina gde se datoteka cela učita u memoriju pa se tek onda obrađuje, ovde pri korišćenju streams program čita deo po deo podataka i simultano ga obrađuje, te na taj način uopšte ne opterećuje memoriju. Pored pomenute prednosti gde se efikasno koristi memorija jer ne trebate učitavati velike količine podataka u memoriju da biste mogli da ih obradite, postoji i druga prednost tzv. “vremenska efikasnost” koaj smanjuje potrebno vremena za početak obrade podataka, jer obradu možete započeti čim dobijete deo podataka, umesto da čekate da budu svi podaci budu dostupni. Pročitajte više o streams u članku Node.js Streams

Da bi znali u kome trenutku se šalju podaci i kada je prenos podataka završen za to postoje registrovani dogadjaji. “Readable streams” imaju registrovane sledeće tipove dogadjaja:

  • data (ovaj dogadjaj se emituje kad god stream prosledi deo podataka tzv. “chunk”)
  • end (ovaj dogadjaj se emituje kad god stream nema više podataka da prosledi)
  • error
  • close
  • readable

U sledećem primeru ćemo se prijaviti na “data” dogadjaj za obaveštenje u kome trenutku se šalju podaci, a da bi smo znali kada je kraj poruke takodje se moramo prijaviti i na “end” dogodjaj:

if (req.method === 'POST' && url==="/message") {
    let body = '';
    req.on('data', chunk => {
        // convert Buffer chunk to string
        body += chunk.toString();
    });
    req.on('end', () => {
        console.log(body);
        res.end('Preuzeli smo vaše poslate podatke');
    });
}

Promenjiva body bi po prijemu podataka mogla ovako izgledati:

fname=NekoIme&age=15&photo=naziv_izabrane_slike.png

Kada imamo podatke u ovome obliku potrebno je da ih parsiramo, a za to ćemo koristi node.js-ov modul “querystring” i njegovu metodu parse() koja će podatke u ovom obliku prebaciti u kolekciju “key/value” parova:

const { parse } = require('querystring');
if (req.method === 'POST') {
    let body = '';
    req.on('data', chunk => {
        body += chunk.toString();
    });
    req.on('end', () => {
        console.log(
            parse(body)
        );
        res.end('Preuzeli smo vaše poslate podatke');
    });
}

U konzoli će biti štampan sada nama čitljiv kod:

{
  fname: 'NekoIme',
  age: '15',
  photo: 'naziv_izabrane_slike.png'
}

Ovde može te pogledati ceo prethodni primer objedinjen kao i primer u kome se concat-uje buffer (chunk) u niz.

Kreiranje servera sa Express bibliotekom

Express je minimalistički framework za Node.js koji pojednostavljuje proces kreiranja servera i rukovanja HTTP zahtevima. Da bismo započeli, prvo moramo instalirati Express pomoću npm:

npm install express

Nakon što je Express instaliran, možemo ga importovati i koristiti za kreiranje servera. U sledećem primeru ćemo kreirati jednostavan server koji će odgovarati na GET zahtev:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('Hello World!');
});

app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(Server is listening at http://localhost:${port});
});

U ovom primeru, Express aplikacija (app) koristi app.get() metodu za rukovanje GET zahtevima na osnovnom URL-u (“/”). Metoda res.send() šalje odgovor klijentu. Server se pokreće pomoću metode app.listen() koja osluškuje zahteve na definisanom portu (u ovom slučaju, 3000).

Prihvatanje POST zahteva i slanje odgovora

Pored GET zahteva, možemo koristiti Express za rukovanje POST zahtevima. U sledećem primeru, kreiraćemo rutu koja prihvata POST zahtev i šalje odgovor:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

app.use(express.json()); // Middleware za parsiranje JSON podataka

app.post('/data', (req, res) => {
const data = req.body;
res.json({ message: 'Data received', data });
});

app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(Server is listening at http://localhost:${port});
});

Ovde koristimo app.use(express.json()) middleware za parsiranje JSON podataka iz tela zahteva. Kada klijent pošalje POST zahtev na “/data” rutu, server će prihvatiti podatke i poslati JSON odgovor nazad klijentu.

Dodavanje ruta i rukovanje greškama

Express omogućava lako dodavanje različitih ruta i rukovanje greškama. Na primer, možemo dodati rutu za “/about” i kreirati middleware za rukovanje 404 greškama:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('Hello World!');
});

app.get('/about', (req, res) => {
res.send('About page');
});

// Middleware za rukovanje 404 greškama
app.use((req, res) => {
res.status(404).send('Page not found');
});

app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(Server is listening at http://localhost:${port});
});

Ovim pristupom, naš server može rukovati različitim rutama i vratiti odgovarajuće odgovore. Middleware za 404 greške se koristi za hvatanje svih nepostojećih ruta i slanje odgovarajuće poruke klijentu.

Express framework nudi mnogo više mogućnosti i fleksibilnosti, ali ovo su osnovni koraci za kreiranje jednostavnog servera. Više informacija možete pronaći u zvaničnoj dokumentaciji.

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      emittedReadable: false,
      readableListening: false,
      resumeScheduled: false,
      errorEmitted: false,
      emitClose: false,
      autoDestroy: false,
      destroyed: false,
      errored: null,
      closed: false,
      closeEmitted: false,
      defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
      awaitDrainWriters: null,
      multiAwaitDrain: false,
      readingMore: false,
      decoder: null,
      encoding: null,
      [Symbol(kPaused)]: false
    },
    _events: [Object: null prototype] {
      end: [Array],
      timeout: [Function: socketOnTimeout],
      data: [Function: bound socketOnData],
      error: [Function: socketOnError],
      close: [Array],
      drain: [Function: bound socketOnDrain],
      resume: [Function: onSocketResume],
      pause: [Function: onSocketPause]
    },
    _eventsCount: 8,
    _maxListeners: undefined,
    _writableState: WritableState {
      objectMode: false,
      highWaterMark: 16384,
      finalCalled: false,
      needDrain: false,
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      ended: false,
      finished: false,
      destroyed: false,
      decodeStrings: false,
      defaultEncoding: 'utf8',
      length: 0,
      writing: false,
      corked: 0,
      sync: true,
      bufferProcessing: false,
      onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite],
      writecb: null,
      writelen: 0,
      afterWriteTickInfo: null,
      buffered: [],
      bufferedIndex: 0,
      allBuffers: true,
      allNoop: true,
      pendingcb: 0,
      prefinished: false,
      errorEmitted: false,
      emitClose: false,
      autoDestroy: false,
      errored: null,
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      closeEmitted: false
    },
    allowHalfOpen: true,
    _sockname: null,
    _pendingData: null,
    _pendingEncoding: '',
    server: Server {
      maxHeaderSize: undefined,
      insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
      _events: [Object: null prototype],
      _eventsCount: 2,
      _maxListeners: undefined,
      _connections: 2,
      _handle: [TCP],
      _usingWorkers: false,
      _workers: [],
      _unref: false,
      allowHalfOpen: true,
      pauseOnConnect: false,
      httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
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      keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
      maxHeadersCount: null,
      headersTimeout: 60000,
      requestTimeout: 0,
      _connectionKey: '6::::3000',
      [Symbol(IncomingMessage)]: [Function: IncomingMessage],
      [Symbol(ServerResponse)]: [Function: ServerResponse],
      [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
      [Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 2
    },
    _server: Server {
      maxHeaderSize: undefined,
      insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
      _events: [Object: null prototype],
      _eventsCount: 2,
      _maxListeners: undefined,
      _connections: 2,
      _handle: [TCP],
      _usingWorkers: false,
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      _unref: false,
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      [Symbol(ServerResponse)]: [Function: ServerResponse],
      [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
      [Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 2
    },
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      '0': [Function: bound setRequestTimeout],
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      '2': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
      '3': [Function: parserOnBody],
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    },
    on: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
    addListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
    prependListener: [Function: socketListenerWrap],
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    _httpMessage: ServerResponse {
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      _maxListeners: undefined,
      outputData: [],
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      _last: false,
      chunkedEncoding: false,
      shouldKeepAlive: true,
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      useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
      sendDate: true,
      _removedConnection: false,
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      _hasBody: true,
      _trailer: '',
      finished: false,
      _headerSent: false,
      socket: [Circular *1],
      _header: null,
      _keepAliveTimeout: 5000,
      _onPendingData: [Function: bound updateOutgoingData],
      _sent100: false,
      _expect_continue: false,
      [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
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    },
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      reading: true,
      onconnection: null,
      _consumed: true,
      [Symbol(owner_symbol)]: [Circular *1]
    },
    [Symbol(kSetNoDelay)]: false,
    [Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
    [Symbol(timeout)]: null,
    [Symbol(kBuffer)]: null,
    [Symbol(kBufferCb)]: null,
    [Symbol(kBufferGen)]: null,
    [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
    [Symbol(kBytesRead)]: 0,
    [Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
    [Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
  },
  _consuming: false,
  _dumped: false,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
  [Symbol(RequestTimeout)]: undefined
}

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Destruktuiranje objekta request:
const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    const { method, url, headers } = request;
    const responseBody = {
        headers,
        method,
        url,
        body: ["item1", "item2", "item3"]
    }

    if (request.method === "GET" && request.url === "/neki_slug") {
      response.statusCode = 200
      response.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
      response.write(JSON.stringify(responseBody))
      response.end()
    }
  }
)
server.listen(3000);

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Primer response header-a:
200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:06:00 GMT
Etag: "c561c68d0ba92bbeb8b0f612a9199f722e3a621a"
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=997
Last-Modified: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:36:04 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: mykey=myvalue; expires=Mon, 17-Jul-2017 16:06:00 GMT; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/; secure
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Vary: Cookie, Accept-Encoding
X-Backend-Server: developer2.webapp.scl3.mozilla.com
X-Cache-Info: not cacheable; meta data too large
X-kuma-revision: 1085259
x-frame-options: DENY

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Primer concat-ovanja bufera
const http = require('http');

http.createServer((request, response) => {
  const { headers, method, url } = request;
    if (method === "GET") {
        response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html")
        response.statusCode = 200
        response.end(`<!doctype html>
            <html>
            <body>
                <form action="/" method="post" _lpchecked="1">
                <p>Unesi ime:</p>
                <input type="text" name="fname"><br>
                <p>Unesi godine:</p>
                <input type="number" name="age"><br>
                <p>Izaberi fotografiju:</p>
                <input type="file" name="photo"><br><br>
                <button>Save</button>
            </form>
            </body>
            </html>
        `)
    }
    if (request.method === 'POST') {
        let body = [];
        request.on('error', (err) => {
          console.error(err);
        }).on('data', (chunk) => {
          body.push(chunk);
        }).on('end', () => {
          //The concat() method joins all buffer objects in an array into one buffer object.
          body = Buffer.concat(body).toString();
          response.on('error', (err) => {
            console.error(err);
          });
          response.statusCode = 200;
          response.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
          const responseBody = { headers, method, url, body };

           // Note: the 2 lines below could be replaced with this next one:  response.end(JSON.stringify(responseBody))
          response.write(JSON.stringify(responseBody));
          response.end();
        });
    }
}).listen(3000);

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Primer
// Url početnog zahteva = http://localhost:3000"

const http = require('http');
const { parse } = require('querystring');
const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
    const { method, url } = request
    if (method === "GET" && url==="/") {
        response.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html")
        response.statusCode = 200
        return response.end(`<!doctype html>
          <html>
          <body>
              <form action="/message" method="post" _lpchecked="1">
                <p>Unesi ime:</p>
                <input type="text" name="fname"><br>
                <p>Unesi godine:</p>
                <input type="number" name="age"><br>
                <p>Izaberi fotografiju:</p>
                <input type="file" name="photo"><br><br>
                <button>Save</button>
          </form>
          </body>
          </html>
        `)
    }
    if (method === 'POST' && url==="/message") {
        const FORM_URLENCODED = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
        if(request.headers['content-type'] === FORM_URLENCODED) {
            response.statusCode = 200;
            response.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
            let body = '';
            request.on('data', chunk => {
                body += chunk.toString();
            });
            request.on('end', () => {
                console.log(
                    parse(body)
                );
                return response.end('Preuzeli smo vaše poslate podatke');
            });
        }
    }
  }
)
server.listen(3000);