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'use strict';
/**
* Module dependencies.
*/
var parse = require('url').parse;
var debug = require('debug')('get-uri');
/**
* Module exports.
*/
module.exports = exports = getUri;
/**
* Supported "protocols".
*/
exports.protocols = {
data: require('./data'),
file: require('./file'),
ftp: require('./ftp'),
http: require('./http'),
https: require('./https')
};
/**
* Async function that returns a `stream.Readable` instance to the
* callback function that will output the contents of the given URI.
*
* For caching purposes, you can pass in a `stream` instance from a previous
* `getUri()` call as a `cache: stream` option, and if the destination has
* not changed since the last time the endpoint was retreived then the callback
* will be invoked with an Error object with `code` set to "ENOTMODIFIED" and
* `null` for the "stream" instance argument. In this case, you can skip
* retreiving the file again and continue to use the previous payload.
*
* @param {String} uri URI to retrieve
* @param {Object} opts optional "options" object
* @param {Function} fn callback function
* @api public
*/
function getUri (uri, opts, fn) {
debug('getUri(%o)', uri);
if ('function' == typeof opts) {
fn = opts;
opts = null;
}
if ('function' != typeof fn) {
throw new TypeError('a callback function must be provided');
}
if (!uri) return fn(new TypeError('must pass in a URI to "get"'));
var parsed = parse(uri);
var protocol = parsed.protocol;
if (!protocol) return fn(new TypeError('URI does not contain a protocol: ' + uri));
// strip trailing :
protocol = protocol.replace(/\:$/, '');
var getter = exports.protocols[protocol];
if ('function' != typeof getter)
return fn(new TypeError('unsupported protocol "' + protocol + '" specified in URI: ' + uri));
getter(parsed, opts || {}, fn);
}