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8336 :: simple connection GET using httpclient does not work when compiled to js

• samsamros (orginal) [2021-08-17T15:45:22+02:00] view original

  Hello all I'm delving into Nim and its amazing characteristics. I'm trying out a simple API connection, but when compiling to javascript I get this:

  /usr/lib/nim/pure/ssl_certs.nim(75, 32) Error: this proc is not available on the NimScript/js target; usage of 'walkFiles' is an {.error.} defined at /usr/lib/nim/pure/os.nim(1965, 1)

  when I take out the lines related to httpClient I no longer get this problem... The code works perfectly when compiled using nim c -d:ssl but doesn't work when compiling to js.

  Maybe there's some workaround or another package this might achieve this better. I look forward to reading your inputs and ideas.

  The code is fairly simple:

  import httpclient import json

  const link = "https://linktoapi/" const option = "simple option"

  var client = newHttpClient()

  client.headers = newHttpHeaders({ "Content-Type": "application/json" })

  proc simple() =

  let response = client.request(link & option, httpMethod = HttpGet)

  echo(response.status)

  let Y = body(response)

  let V = parseJson(Y)

  echo(V)

  simple()

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• DeletedUser (orginal) [2021-08-17T16:02:43+02:00] view original

  httpclient doesn't support JS backend.

  One of solutions is https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/17373

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-08-17T16:08:24+02:00] view original

  Or just wrap the native js functions

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• samsamros (orginal) [2021-08-17T16:28:01+02:00] view original

  this is really good stuff. I'll take a look... reading the pull request's comments, and running through the other links. I'm gonna download it and play around with it. Thanks. I'll get back to you to let you know... Def upvoting on github

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• samsamros (orginal) [2021-08-17T16:28:46+02:00] view original

  thanks... I thought of that too, but was looking a way to communicate more directly to the js backend... but this is absolutely worth a try.

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