Merge pull request #209 from calibr/master

Add patchJson shortcut

Author: easternbloc

README.md

@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ Send json `data` via POST method.
 
 Send json `data` via PUT method.
 
+### patchJson(url, data, options)
+
+Send json `data` via PATCH method.
+
 ### Parsers
 
 You can give any of these to the parsers option to specify how the response data is deserialized.

lib/restler.js

@@ -364,6 +364,10 @@ function putJson(url, data, options) {
   return json(url, data, options, 'PUT');
 }
 
+function patchJson(url, data, options) {
+  return json(url, data, options, 'PATCH');
+}
+
 var parsers = {
   auto: function(data, callback) {
     var contentType = this.headers['content-type'];
@@ -527,6 +531,7 @@ mixin(exports, {
   json: json,
   postJson: postJson,
   putJson: putJson,
+  patchJson: patchJson,
   parsers: parsers,
   file: multipart.file,
   data: multipart.data

test/restler.js

@@ -534,6 +534,14 @@ module.exports['Deserialization'] = {
     });
   },
 
+  'Should patch and parse JSON via shortcut method': function(test) {
+    var obj = { secret : 'very secret string' };
+    rest.patchJson(host + '/push-json', obj).on('complete', function(data) {
+      test.equal(obj.secret, data.secret, 'returned: ' + util.inspect(data));
+      test.done();
+    });
+  },
+
   'Should understand custom mime-type': function(test) {
     rest.parsers.auto.matchers['application/vnd.github+json'] = function(data, callback) {
       rest.parsers.json.call(this, data, function(err, data) {