This is module for Node.js to push data to Teaparty2 dashboard

##Install##

npm install node-teaparty

##Usage##

var Teaparty = require(‘node-teaparty’);

var teaparty = new Teaparty({hostname: 'localhost'});

###Options###

####Required####

• hostname The hostname for your Teaparty2 server

####Optional####

• protocol defaults to http (you can change to https)
• port defaults to 80
• path defaults to /api/push

##Methods##

###Raw send### Generic method to send raw data object to any type of widget

teaparty.send(widgetKey, data, function (err, data) {
    //callback with response from Teaparty
});

data is raw JSON object, for example

[ 
	{ "value": 24, "label": "Example" }, 
	{ "value": 52.12, "label": "New Example" } 
]

###Text widget###

var bar = new teaparty.Text(widgetKey);
bar.send(text, function (err, data) {
    //callback with response from Teaparty
});

text is String, for example

You are not your $#*@ framework!

###Number widget###

var bar = new teaparty.Number(widgetKey);
bar.send(value, function (err, data) {
    //callback with response from Teaparty
});

value is Number, for example

42

###Status widget###

var bar = new teaparty.Status(widgetKey);
bar.send(status, function (err, data) {
    //callback with response from Teaparty
});

There are two statuses for this widget so status may be a string ("up" or "down"), boolean value or anything that will be casted to boolean. For example, these values are the same:

"up"
true
1
{simple: "object"}

###RAG widget### Status widget, based on the Red, Amber and Green colors used in a traffic light rating system (read more on Wikipedia)

var bar = new teaparty.RAG(widgetKey);
bar.send(arr, function (err, data) {
   //callback with response from Teaparty
});

arr is an Array contains 3 objects with value and text properties. For example

[ 
	{ "value": 3, "text": "Reds" }, 
	{ "value": 12, "text": "Ambers" }, 
	{ "value": 87, "text": "Greens" } 
]

###List widget###

var bar = new teaparty.List(widgetKey);
bar.send(arr, function (err, data) {
    //callback with response from Teaparty
});

arr is Array of objects with keys value and label, for example

[ 
	{ 
		"value": 2.4, 
		"label": "Average kittens age" 
	}, 
	{ 
		"value": 100, 
		"label": "Just random number" 
	} 
]

###Highcharts widget###

var bar = new teaparty.Highcharts(widgetKey);
bar.send(chartObj, function (err, data) {
   //callback with response from Teaparty
});

chartObj is a Highcharts Chart data object (read official documentation). For example

{
    chart: {
        plotShadow: false
    },
    title: {
        text: 'Browser market shares example'
    },
    plotOptions: {
        pie: {
            dataLabels: {
                enabled: true
            }
        }
    },
    series: [{
        type: 'pie',
        name: 'Browser share',
        data: [
            ['Firefox',  45.0],
            ['IE',       26.8],
            ['Chrome',   12.8],
            ['Safari',    8.5],
            ['Opera',     6.2],
            ['Others',    0.7]
        ]
    }]
}

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