express-range

Express middleware for handling Range, Content-Range, and Accept-Ranges headers.

Install

Install the package with npm:

$ npm install express-range

Usage

Create middleware:

var app = express();
app.use(range({
  accept: 'items',
  limit: 10,
}));

Uses sane defaults:

var items = [{
  name: 'foo',
  id: 1
}, {
  name: 'bar',
  id: 2
}, {
  name: 'baz'
}];
 
app.get('/foo', function(req, res) {
    res.range({
      first: req.range.first,
      last: req.range.last,
      length: items.length
    });
  res.json(items.slice(req.range.first, req.range.last + 1));
});

API

range(options)

Creates an express middleware. The middleware parses the range Range header, and sets response code 206 if present. It also sets the Accept-Ranges header.

• options.accept - accepted range unit(s)
• options.limit - optional If range not specified in the request, range 0-(limit-1) is assumed
• options.length - optional Collection length, or Function (with function(cb(err, length)) signature). If not provided, unknown length (*) is assumed.

req.range

POJO, containing the requested range.

• req.range.unit - Range unit
• req.range.first - First items index (defaults to 0 if no range is specified)
• req.range.last - Last items index (defaults to limit-1 if no range is specified)
• req.range.suffix - If the range is suffix-style (Range: items=-5 - the last 5 items)

res.range(options)

Set custom response headers (Content-Range). By default, the middleware sets the same response range, that was requested.

• options.unit - Specify range unit (it defaults to the requested unit)
• options.first - Specify the first items index (it defaults to the requested one)
• options.last - Specify the last items index(it defaults to the requested one) . options.length - Specify the resource lenth (it defaults to middleware default, or *)

License

MIT