Example of sending/recieving data via HTTP POST.

Author: ashleydavis

.gitignore

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+http-post/receiver/node_modules/
+http-post/sender/node_modules/

http-post/receiver/index.js

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+"use strict";
+
+const express = require('express');
+const app = express();
+const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
+
+app.use(bodyParser.json());
+
+app.post('/submit-data', (req, res) => {
+    console.log(req.body);
+    res.sendStatus(200);
+});
+
+app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!'))

http-post/receiver/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "test-data-receiver",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "keywords": [],
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "body-parser": "1.18.2",
+    "express": "4.16.3"
+  }
+}

http-post/sender/data/ayr-aq-2014.csv

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+"use strict";
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const request = require('request-promise');
+const papa = require('papaparse');
+
+//
+// Load example data.
+//
+const location = "brisbanecbd";
+const parsed = papa.parse(fs.readFileSync("./data/brisbanecbd-aq-2014.csv", "utf8"), { dynamicTyping: true, header: true });
+const data = parsed.data;
+
+let curIndex = 0;
+
+setInterval(() => { // Every second send a chunk of data to the server.
+
+        const postData = Object.assign({}, data[curIndex]);
+        curIndex += 1;
+
+        postData.Location = location; // Tag the data with a location so that we can differentuate our data sources.
+
+        request.post({
+            method: "POST",
+            uri: "http://localhost:3000/submit-data", 
+            body: postData,
+            json: true
+        });
+ 
+    }, 1000);

http-post/sender/data/brisbanecbd-aq-2014.csv

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+{
+  "name": "mock-data-generator",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "keywords": [],
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "papaparse": "4.3.7",
+    "request": "2.85.0",
+    "request-promise": "4.2.2"
+  }
+}