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https://github.com/lithic-com/lithic-node
Node.js library for the Lithic API.
https://github.com/lithic-com/lithic-node
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Node.js library for the Lithic API.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/lithic-com/lithic-node
- Owner: lithic-com
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2022-02-17T02:25:35.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-26T20:31:11.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-28T05:54:44.420Z (7 months ago)
- Language: TypeScript
- Size: 1.21 MB
- Stars: 46
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Lithic Node API Library
[](https://npmjs.org/package/lithic) 
This library provides convenient access to the Lithic REST API from server-side TypeScript or JavaScript.
The REST API documentation can be found on [docs.lithic.com](https://docs.lithic.com). The full API of this library can be found in [api.md](api.md).
## Installation
```sh
npm install lithic
```
## Usage
The full API of this library can be found in [api.md](api.md).
```js
import Lithic from 'lithic';
const client = new Lithic({
apiKey: process.env['LITHIC_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
environment: 'sandbox', // defaults to 'production'
});
async function main() {
const card = await client.cards.create({ type: 'SINGLE_USE' });
console.log(card.token);
}
main();
```
### Request & Response types
This library includes TypeScript definitions for all request params and response fields. You may import and use them like so:
```ts
import Lithic from 'lithic';
const client = new Lithic({
apiKey: process.env['LITHIC_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
environment: 'sandbox', // defaults to 'production'
});
async function main() {
const params: Lithic.CardCreateParams = { type: 'SINGLE_USE' };
const card: Lithic.Card = await client.cards.create(params);
}
main();
```
Documentation for each method, request param, and response field are available in docstrings and will appear on hover in most modern editors.
## Handling errors
When the library is unable to connect to the API,
or if the API returns a non-success status code (i.e., 4xx or 5xx response),
a subclass of `APIError` will be thrown:
```ts
async function main() {
const card = await client.cards.create({ type: 'an_incorrect_type' }).catch(async (err) => {
if (err instanceof Lithic.APIError) {
console.log(err.status); // 400
console.log(err.name); // BadRequestError
console.log(err.error?.message); // Invalid parameter(s): type
console.log(err.error?.debugging_request_id); // 94d5e915-xxxx-4cee-a4f5-2xd6ebd279ac
console.log(err.headers); // {server: 'nginx', ...}
} else {
throw err;
}
});
}
main();
```
Error codes are as followed:
| Status Code | Error Type |
| ----------- | -------------------------- |
| 400 | `BadRequestError` |
| 401 | `AuthenticationError` |
| 403 | `PermissionDeniedError` |
| 404 | `NotFoundError` |
| 422 | `UnprocessableEntityError` |
| 429 | `RateLimitError` |
| >=500 | `InternalServerError` |
| N/A | `APIConnectionError` |
### Retries
Certain errors will be automatically retried 2 times by default, with a short exponential backoff.
Connection errors (for example, due to a network connectivity problem), 408 Request Timeout, 409 Conflict,
429 Rate Limit, and >=500 Internal errors will all be retried by default.
You can use the `maxRetries` option to configure or disable this:
```js
// Configure the default for all requests:
const client = new Lithic({
maxRetries: 0, // default is 2
});
// Or, configure per-request:
await client.cards.list({ page_size: 10 }, {
maxRetries: 5,
});
```
### Timeouts
Requests time out after 1 minute by default. You can configure this with a `timeout` option:
```ts
// Configure the default for all requests:
const client = new Lithic({
timeout: 20 * 1000, // 20 seconds (default is 1 minute)
});
// Override per-request:
await client.cards.list({ page_size: 10 }, {
timeout: 5 * 1000,
});
```
On timeout, an `APIConnectionTimeoutError` is thrown.
Note that requests which time out will be [retried twice by default](#retries).
## Auto-pagination
List methods in the Lithic API are paginated.
You can use `for await … of` syntax to iterate through items across all pages:
```ts
async function fetchAllCards(params) {
const allCards = [];
// Automatically fetches more pages as needed.
for await (const card of client.cards.list()) {
allCards.push(card);
}
return allCards;
}
```
Alternatively, you can make request a single page at a time:
```ts
let page = await client.cards.list();
for (const card of page.data) {
console.log(card);
}
// Convenience methods are provided for manually paginating:
while (page.hasNextPage()) {
page = page.getNextPage();
// ...
}
```
## Default Headers
We automatically send the `X-Lithic-Pagination` header set to `cursor`.
If you need to, you can override it by setting default headers on a per-request basis.
```ts
import Lithic from 'lithic';
const client = new Lithic();
const card = await client.cards.create(
{ type: 'SINGLE_USE' },
{ headers: { 'X-Lithic-Pagination': 'My-Custom-Value' } },
);
```
## Webhook Verification
We provide helper methods for verifying that a webhook request came from Lithic, and not a malicious third party.
You can use `lithic.webhooks.verifySignature(body: string, headers, secret?) -> void` or `lithic.webhooks.unwrap(body: string, headers, secret?) -> Payload`,
both of which will raise an error if the signature is invalid.
Note that the "body" parameter must be the raw JSON string sent from the server (do not parse and re-stringify it).
The `.unwrap()` method will automatically parse this JSON for you into a typed `Payload`.
For example:
```ts
// with Express:
app.use('/webhooks/lithic', bodyParser.text({ type: '*/*' }), function (req, res) {
const payload = lithic.webhooks.unwrap(req.body, req.headers, process.env['LITHIC_WEBHOOK_SECRET']); // env var used by default; explicit here.
console.log(payload);
res.json({ ok: true });
});
// with Next.js (app router):
export default async function POST(req) {
const body = await req.text(); // if you're using the pages router, you will need this trick: https://vancelucas.com/blog/how-to-access-raw-body-data-with-next-js/
const payload = lithic.webhooks.unwrap(body, req.headers, process.env['LITHIC_WEBHOOK_SECRET']); // env var used by default; explicit here.
console.log(payload);
return NextResponse.json({ ok: true });
}
```
## Advanced Usage
### Accessing raw Response data (e.g., headers)
The "raw" `Response` returned by `fetch()` can be accessed through the `.asResponse()` method on the `APIPromise` type that all methods return.
You can also use the `.withResponse()` method to get the raw `Response` along with the parsed data.
```ts
const client = new Lithic();
const response = await client.cards.create({ type: 'SINGLE_USE' }).asResponse();
console.log(response.headers.get('X-My-Header'));
console.log(response.statusText); // access the underlying Response object
const { data: card, response: raw } = await client.cards.create({ type: 'SINGLE_USE' }).withResponse();
console.log(raw.headers.get('X-My-Header'));
console.log(card.token);
```
### Making custom/undocumented requests
This library is typed for convenient access to the documented API. If you need to access undocumented
endpoints, params, or response properties, the library can still be used.
#### Undocumented endpoints
To make requests to undocumented endpoints, you can use `client.get`, `client.post`, and other HTTP verbs.
Options on the client, such as retries, will be respected when making these requests.
```ts
await client.post('/some/path', {
body: { some_prop: 'foo' },
query: { some_query_arg: 'bar' },
});
```
#### Undocumented params
To make requests using undocumented parameters, you may use `// @ts-expect-error` on the undocumented
parameter. This library doesn't validate at runtime that the request matches the type, so any extra values you
send will be sent as-is.
```ts
client.foo.create({
foo: 'my_param',
bar: 12,
// @ts-expect-error baz is not yet public
baz: 'undocumented option',
});
```
For requests with the `GET` verb, any extra params will be in the query, all other requests will send the
extra param in the body.
If you want to explicitly send an extra argument, you can do so with the `query`, `body`, and `headers` request
options.
#### Undocumented properties
To access undocumented response properties, you may access the response object with `// @ts-expect-error` on
the response object, or cast the response object to the requisite type. Like the request params, we do not
validate or strip extra properties from the response from the API.
### Customizing the fetch client
By default, this library uses `node-fetch` in Node, and expects a global `fetch` function in other environments.
If you would prefer to use a global, web-standards-compliant `fetch` function even in a Node environment,
(for example, if you are running Node with `--experimental-fetch` or using NextJS which polyfills with `undici`),
add the following import before your first import `from "Lithic"`:
```ts
// Tell TypeScript and the package to use the global web fetch instead of node-fetch.
// Note, despite the name, this does not add any polyfills, but expects them to be provided if needed.
import 'lithic/shims/web';
import Lithic from 'lithic';
```
To do the inverse, add `import "lithic/shims/node"` (which does import polyfills).
This can also be useful if you are getting the wrong TypeScript types for `Response` ([more details](https://github.com/lithic-com/lithic-node/tree/main/src/_shims#readme)).
### Logging and middleware
You may also provide a custom `fetch` function when instantiating the client,
which can be used to inspect or alter the `Request` or `Response` before/after each request:
```ts
import { fetch } from 'undici'; // as one example
import Lithic from 'lithic';
const client = new Lithic({
fetch: async (url: RequestInfo, init?: RequestInit): Promise => {
console.log('About to make a request', url, init);
const response = await fetch(url, init);
console.log('Got response', response);
return response;
},
});
```
Note that if given a `DEBUG=true` environment variable, this library will log all requests and responses automatically.
This is intended for debugging purposes only and may change in the future without notice.
### Configuring an HTTP(S) Agent (e.g., for proxies)
By default, this library uses a stable agent for all http/https requests to reuse TCP connections, eliminating many TCP & TLS handshakes and shaving around 100ms off most requests.
If you would like to disable or customize this behavior, for example to use the API behind a proxy, you can pass an `httpAgent` which is used for all requests (be they http or https), for example:
```ts
import http from 'http';
import { HttpsProxyAgent } from 'https-proxy-agent';
// Configure the default for all requests:
const client = new Lithic({
httpAgent: new HttpsProxyAgent(process.env.PROXY_URL),
});
// Override per-request:
await client.cards.list({
httpAgent: new http.Agent({ keepAlive: false }),
});
```
## Semantic versioning
This package generally follows [SemVer](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) conventions, though certain backwards-incompatible changes may be released as minor versions:
1. Changes that only affect static types, without breaking runtime behavior.
2. Changes to library internals which are technically public but not intended or documented for external use. _(Please open a GitHub issue to let us know if you are relying on such internals)_.
3. Changes that we do not expect to impact the vast majority of users in practice.
We take backwards-compatibility seriously and work hard to ensure you can rely on a smooth upgrade experience.
We are keen for your feedback; please open an [issue](https://www.github.com/lithic-com/lithic-node/issues) with questions, bugs, or suggestions.
## Requirements
TypeScript >= 4.5 is supported.
The following runtimes are supported:
- Web browsers (Up-to-date Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and more)
- Node.js 18 LTS or later ([non-EOL](https://endoflife.date/nodejs)) versions.
- Deno v1.28.0 or higher, using `import Lithic from "npm:lithic"`.
- Bun 1.0 or later.
- Cloudflare Workers.
- Vercel Edge Runtime.
- Jest 28 or greater with the `"node"` environment (`"jsdom"` is not supported at this time).
- Nitro v2.6 or greater.
Note that React Native is not supported at this time.
If you are interested in other runtime environments, please open or upvote an issue on GitHub.