Response interface

The minimum a response object must provide for the middlewares to answer with.

Signature:

export interface Response

Remarks

Structural on purpose, so express, Fastify's compatibility layer, a bare http.ServerResponse wrapper or a test double all satisfy it without this package depending on any of them.

Response.header() and Response.setHeader() are both optional because frameworks disagree on which they provide; HttpProtect.textMiddleware() and HttpProtect.jsonMiddleware() prefer header, fall back to setHeader, and simply send no Content-Type if neither is a function.

Methods

Method	Description
end(args)	Ends the response. Called by every middleware on a rejected request, including after Response.send().
header(name, value)?	(Optional) Express-style header setter, preferred when present.
send(args)	Writes the response body. Given a plain string by HttpProtect.textMiddleware() and a JSON string by HttpProtect.jsonMiddleware(); never called by HttpProtect.middleware(), which answers with no body at all.
setHeader(name, value)?	(Optional) Node-style header setter, used only when Response.header() is absent.
status(code)	Sets the HTTP status code. Called with 429 or 418 before the body is sent.

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