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diff --git a/deps/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/README.md b/deps/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b665ebfb974 --- /dev/null +++ b/deps/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +# npm-registry-client + +The code that npm uses to talk to the registry. + +It handles all the caching and HTTP calls. + +## Usage + +```javascript +var RegClient = require('npm-registry-client') +var client = new RegClient(options) + +client.get("npm", "latest", 1000, function (er, data, raw, res) { + // error is an error if there was a problem. + // data is the parsed data object + // raw is the json string + // res is the response from couch +}) +``` + +# Options + +* `registry` **Required** {String} URL to the registry +* `cache` **Required** {String} Path to the cache folder +* `alwaysAuth` {Boolean} Auth even for GET requests. +* `auth` {String} A base64-encoded `username:password` +* `email` {String} User's email address +* `tag` {String} The default tag to use when publishing new packages. + Default = `"latest"` +* `ca` {String} Cerficate signing authority certificates to trust. +* `strictSSL` {Boolean} Whether or not to be strict with SSL + certificates. Default = `true` +* `userAgent` {String} User agent header to send. Default = + `"node/{process.version}"` +* `log` {Object} The logger to use. Defaults to `require("npmlog")` if + that works, otherwise logs are disabled. + +# client.request(method, where, [what], [etag], [nofollow], cb) + +* `method` {String} HTTP method +* `where` {String} Path to request on the server +* `what` {Stream | Buffer | String | Object} The request body. Objects + that are not Buffers or Streams are encoded as JSON. +* `etag` {String} The cached ETag +* `nofollow` {Boolean} Prevent following 302/301 responses +* `cb` {Function} + * `error` {Error | null} + * `data` {Object} the parsed data object + * `raw` {String} the json + * `res` {Response Object} response from couch + +Make a request to the registry. All the other methods are wrappers +around this. one. + +# client.adduser(username, password, email, cb) + +* `username` {String} +* `password` {String} +* `email` {String} +* `cb` {Function} + +Add a user account to the registry, or verify the credentials. + +# client.get(url, [timeout], [nofollow], [staleOk], cb) + +* `url` {String} The url path to fetch +* `timeout` {Number} Number of seconds old that a cached copy must be + before a new request will be made. +* `nofollow` {Boolean} Do not follow 301/302 responses +* `staleOk` {Boolean} If there's cached data available, then return that + to the callback quickly, and update the cache the background. + +Fetches data from the registry via a GET request, saving it in +the cache folder with the ETag. + +# client.publish(data, tarball, [readme], cb) + +* `data` {Object} Package data +* `tarball` {String | Stream} Filename or stream of the package tarball +* `readme` {String} Contents of the README markdown file +* `cb` {Function} + +Publish a package to the registry. + +Note that this does not create the tarball from a folder. However, it +can accept a gzipped tar stream or a filename to a tarball. + +# client.star(package, starred, cb) + +* `package` {String} Name of the package to star +* `starred` {Boolean} True to star the package, false to unstar it. +* `cb` {Function} + +Star or unstar a package. + +Note that the user does not have to be the package owner to star or +unstar a package, though other writes do require that the user be the +package owner. + +# client.tag(project, version, tag, cb) + +* `project` {String} Project name +* `version` {String} Version to tag +* `tag` {String} Tag name to apply +* `cb` {Function} + +Mark a version in the `dist-tags` hash, so that `pkg@tag` +will fetch the specified version. + +# client.unpublish(name, [ver], cb) + +* `name` {String} package name +* `ver` {String} version to unpublish. Leave blank to unpublish all + versions. +* `cb` {Function} + +Remove a version of a package (or all versions) from the registry. When +the last version us unpublished, the entire document is removed from the +database. + +# client.upload(where, file, [etag], [nofollow], cb) + +* `where` {String} URL path to upload to +* `file` {String | Stream} Either the filename or a readable stream +* `etag` {String} Cache ETag +* `nofollow` {Boolean} Do not follow 301/302 responses +* `cb` {Function} + +Upload an attachment. Mostly used by `client.publish()`. |