Application

Application

Singleton instance in App Worker, extend EggApplication

Constructor

new Application(options)

Parameters:
Name Type Description
options Object

see EggApplication
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Extends

Members

BaseContextClass :BaseContextClass

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  • 1.0.0
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baseDir :String

The current directory of application

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  • 1.0.0
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Boot :Boot

Retreive base boot

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config :Config

The configuration of application

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  • 1.0.0
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Controller :Controller

Retrieve base controller

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  • 1.0.0
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coreLogger :Logger

core logger for framework and plugins, log file is $HOME/logs/{appname}/egg-web

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  • 1.0.0
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createAnonymousContext :String

Create an anonymous context, the context isn't request level, so the request is mocked. then you can use context level API like ctx.service

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deprecate :function

Alias to https://npmjs.com/package/depd

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  • 1.0.0
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env

app.env delegate app.config.env

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  • Yes
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Helper :Helper

reference to Helper

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httpclient :HttpClient

HttpClient instance

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keys :String

secret key for Application

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loader :EggLoader

The loader instance, the default class is EggLoader. If you want define

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  • 1.0.0
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locals :Object

global locals for view

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logger :Logger

application logger, log file is $HOME/logs/{appname}/{appname}-web

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  • 1.0.0
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loggers :Object

All loggers contain logger, coreLogger and customLogger

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  • 1.0.0
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messenger :Messenger

messenger instance

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  • 1.0.0
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name :String

The name of application

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  • 1.0.0
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plugins :Object

Retrieve enabled plugins

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  • 1.0.0
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proxy

app.proxy delegate app.config.proxy

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  • Yes
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router :Router

get router

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  • 1.0.0
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Service :Service

Retrieve base service

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  • 1.0.0
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type :String

Whether application or agent

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  • 1.0.0
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view :ViewManager

Retrieve ViewManager instance

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Methods

addSingleton(name, create)

create a singleton instance

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name String

unique name for singleton
create function | AsyncFunction

method will be invoked when singleton instance create
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beforeClose(fn)

Register a function that will be called when app close.

Notice: This method is now NOT recommanded directly used, Developers SHOULDN'T use app.beforeClose directly now, but in the form of class to implement beforeClose instead.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
fn function

the function that can be generator function or async function.
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beforeStart(scope)

Execute scope after loaded and before app start.

Notice: This method is now NOT recommanded and reguarded as a deprecated one, For plugin development, we should use didLoad instead. For application development, we should use willReady instead.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
scope function | GeneratorFunction | AsyncFunction

function will execute before app start
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(async) close() → {Promise}

Close all, it will close

  • callbacks registered by beforeClose
  • emit close event
  • remove add listeners

If error is thrown when it's closing, the promise will reject. It will also reject after following call.

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  • 1.0.0
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cluster(clientClass, optionsopt) → {ClientWrapper}

almost the same as Agent.cluster API, the only different is that this method create Follower.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
clientClass function

client class function
[ options ] Object
  • {Boolean} [autoGenerate] - whether generate delegate rule automatically, default is true
    • {Function} [formatKey] - a method to tranform the subscription info into a stringļ¼Œdefault is JSON.stringify
    • {Object} [transcode|JSON.stringify/parse]
      • {Function} encode - custom serialize method
      • {Function} decode - custom deserialize method
    • {Boolean} [isBroadcast] - whether broadcast subscrption result to all followers or just one, default is true
    • {Number} [responseTimeout] - response timeout, default is 3 seconds
    • {Number} [maxWaitTime|30000] - leader startup max time, default is 30 seconds
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createContext(req, res) → {Context}

Create egg context

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Name Type Description
req Req

node native Request object
res Res

node native Response object
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curl(url, opts) → {Object}

http request helper base on httpclient, it will auto save httpclient log. Keep the same api with httpclient.request(url, args).

See https://github.com/node-modules/urllib#api-doc for more details.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
url String

request url address.
opts Object
  • method {String} - Request method, defaults to GET. Could be GET, POST, DELETE or PUT. Alias 'type'.
  • data {Object} - Data to be sent. Will be stringify automatically.
  • dataType {String} - String - Type of response data. Could be text or json. If it's text, the callbacked data would be a String. If it's json, the data of callback would be a parsed JSON Object. Default callbacked data would be a Buffer.
  • headers {Object} - Request headers.
  • timeout {Number} - Request timeout in milliseconds. Defaults to exports.TIMEOUT. Include remote server connecting timeout and response timeout. When timeout happen, will return ConnectionTimeout or ResponseTimeout.
  • auth {String} - username:password used in HTTP Basic Authorization.
  • followRedirect {Boolean} - follow HTTP 3xx responses as redirects. defaults to false.
  • gzip {Boolean} - let you get the res object when request connected, default false. alias customResponse
  • nestedQuerystring {Boolean} - urllib default use querystring to stringify form data which don't support nested object, will use qs instead of querystring to support nested object by set this option to true.
  • more options see https://www.npmjs.com/package/urllib
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Example
```js
const result = await app.curl('http://example.com/foo.json', {
  method: 'GET',
  dataType: 'json',
});
console.log(result.status, result.headers, result.data);
```

getLogger(name) → {Logger}

Get logger by name, it's equal to app.loggers['name'], but you can extend it with your own logical.

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Name Type Description
name String

logger name
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inspect() → {Object}

print the information when console.log(app)

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  • 1.0.0
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Example
```js
console.log(app);
=>
{
  name: 'mockapp',
  env: 'test',
  subdomainOffset: 2,
  config: '<egg config>',
  controller: '<egg controller>',
  service: '<egg service>',
  middlewares: '<egg middlewares>',
  urllib: '<egg urllib>',
  loggers: '<egg loggers>'
}
```

ready(flagOrFunctionopt) → {Promise|null}

register an callback function that will be invoked when application is ready.

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Name Type Description
[ flagOrFunction ] boolean | Error | function
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  • 1.0.0
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Example
const app = new Application(...);
app.ready(err => {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('done');
});

readyCallback(name, opts) → {function}

If a client starts asynchronously, you can register readyCallback, then the application will wait for the callback to ready

It will log when the callback is not invoked after 10s

Recommend to use EggCore#beforeStart

Parameters:
Name Type Description
name String

readyCallback task name
opts object
  • {Number} [timeout=10000] - emit ready_timeout when it doesn't finish but reach the timeout
    • {Boolean} [isWeakDep=false] - whether it's a weak dependency
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  • 1.0.0
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Example
const done = app.readyCallback('mysql');
mysql.ready(done);

runInBackground(scope)

Run async function in the background

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Name Type Description
scope function

the first args is an anonymous ctx
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  • Context#runInBackground

toAsyncFunction(fn) → {AsyncFunction}

Convert a generator function to a promisable one.

Notice: for other kinds of functions, it directly returns you what it is.

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Name Type Description
fn function

The inputted function.
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Example
```javascript
     const fn = function* (arg) {
        return arg;
      };
      const wrapped = app.toAsyncFunction(fn);
      wrapped(true).then((value) => console.log(value));
    ```

toPromise(obj) → {Promise}

Convert an object with generator functions to a Promisable one.

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Name Type Description
obj Mixed

The inputted object.
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Example
```javascript
     const fn = function* (arg) {
        return arg;
      };
      const arr = [ fn(1), fn(2) ];
      const promise = app.toPromise(arr);
      promise.then(res => console.log(res));
    ```

url(name, params) → {String}

Alias to Router#url

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Name Type Description
name String

Router name
params Object

more parameters
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use(fn) → {Application}

override koa's app.use, support generator function

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Name Type Description
fn function

middleware
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  • 1.0.0
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