Consul Service Wrapper

Easily create and connect a service with Consul in Node.js.

Prerequisite

Node ^6.9.0

Getting started

• npm install consul-service-wrapper --save
• var ConsulService = require('consul-service-wrapper');

Configuration

The ConsulService takes the same configertions as the Console package for connection to the Consule server, for more details please check the Console package documentation.

Methods

registerService(service)

registerService takes a service config as an Object and registers it with Consul. The following lists each available option and what it does:

name

The name of the service.

Name	Type	Required	Default
name	String	Y	undefined

port

The port the the service runs on.

Name	Type	Required	Default
port	Number	Y	undefined

tags

The tags to register the service with.

Name	Type	Required	Default
tags	Array	N	[]

address

The address of the service.

Name	Type	Required	Default
address	String	N	127.0.0.1

id

The id to register the service with. Defaults to using the service name.

Name	Type	Required	Default
id	String	N	name

Usage

const service = { name: 'test-service', port: 8080 }
const consulService = new ConsulService()
consulService
  .registerService(service)
  .catch(err => console.log(err))

getService(serviceName)

getService allows you to fetch a service by name if more than one is match then one will be returned at random.

serviceName

The service name you want to fetch.

Name	Type	Required	Default
serviceName	String	Y	undefined

Usage

const consulService = new ConsulService()
consulService
  .getService('test-service')
  .then(service => console.log(service))
  .catch(err => console.error(err))

getServiceByTag(serviceName, tag)

Get a service by name and tag if more than one service is found one matching service will be retrned at random.

serviceName

The service name you want to fetch.

Name	Type	Required	Default
serviceName	String	Y	undefined

tag

The service tag you want to filter by.

Name	Type	Required	Default
tag	String	Y	undefined

Usage

const consulService = new ConsulService()
consulService
  .getServiceByTag('test-service, 'stable')
  .then(service => console.log(service))
  .catch(err => console.log(err))

formatUri(service)

Takes in a service object and formats a URI from it E.G. 127.0.0.1:8080

service

The service object returned from getServiceByTag or getService.

Name	Type	Required	Default
service	Object	Y	undefined

Usage

const consulService = new ConsulService()
consulService
  .getService('test-service')
  .then(service => consulService.formatUri(service))
  .then(uri => console.log(uri))
  .catch(err => console.error(err))

Contributing and Developing

Testing

• Running unit tests: npm test

Scripts

• test: Runs the unit tests
• build: Compiles the code to ES5 in the dist folder
• coverage: Produce coverage report
• coveralls: Run coverage report and pipe it to Coveralls
• cov: Open the coverage report
• dev: Compiles the code to ES5 and watches for changes

License

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Sam Stefan, http://samstefan.co.uk

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