Hapi: QUESTION: Calling internal routes.

[scottcorgan]

We love the batch routes reature of Hapi, but we are curious if there is (or will be) a way to call internal routes. Seems like an awesome way to create abstraction without having to make http requests to your own server.

Thanks!

[hueniverse]

Example?

[scottcorgan]

Such as:

I have an internal api that is exposed externally via http. If I call /api/some-route, and that route combines several objects (such as from the route /api/some-other-route-object-src ) to return a public facing JSON object, I would like to call that route without having to make an external http request.

Right now, we use the Request library from Mikael. So we do something like this:

request.get('http://my.server.com/api/some-other-route-object-src', function () {
    //
});

But, we would like to do:

function routeHandler (request) {
    request.internalRoute.get('/api/some-other-route-object-src', function () {
        //
    });
}

Just the though of being able to invoke GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE routes internally seems like it could solve some modular complexities and remove the need to make http requests to your own server.

[hueniverse]

Like this: https://github.com/walmartlabs/hapi/blob/master/docs/Reference.md#request-injection ?

[scottcorgan]

WOW. I just feel dumb now. I feel like I combed through your docs over and over.

Thanks for your patience!

[hueniverse]

It's a 40 page doc... I am still finding "new" feature I added myself a year ago...

[owenscott]

For any other lost soul who happily ends up here, I believe the relevant URL for request injection is now:

https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/blob/master/docs/Reference.md#serverinjectoptions-callback

[camerow]

All these examples 404, could someone post a new link please? =)

[gergoerdosi]

Here is the new location of the link mentioned above:
http://hapijs.com/api#serverinjectoptions-callback

You may find this useful too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppK47d2Uta4

[camerow]

Thank you @gergoerdosi =)

[bernardoadc]

changed again, to https://hapijs.com/api#-await-serverinjectoptions

[c990802]

Link as of August 2019: https://hapi.dev/api/?v=18.3.1#server.inject()

[bernardoadc]

that's a lot of changes

[blex41]

As of January 2020: https://hapi.dev/api/?v=19.0.4#-await-serverinjectoptions

[ruthearle]

As of Feb 2020, v19.10: https://hapi.dev/api/?v=19.1.0#-await-serverinjectoptions

[hueniverse]

We're working on fixing the links issue...