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+elm-stuff
+.DS_Store
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+# elm-http-decorators
+
+This package provides some useful functions which work with
+[elm-http](https://github.com/evancz/elm-http)
+
+## Functions
+
+```elm
+addCacheBuster : (Settings -> Request -> Task RawError Response) -> (Settings -> Request -> Task RawError Response)
+```
+
+Decorates `Http.send` so that a 'cache busting' parameter will always be
+added to the URL -- e.g. '?cacheBuster=219384729384', where the number is
+derived from the current time.  The purpose of doing this would be to help
+defeat any caching that might otherwise take place at some point between the
+client and server.
+
+```elm
+promoteError : Task RawError Response -> Task Error Response
+```
+
+Decorates the result of `Http.send` so that the error type is `Http.Error`
+rather than `Http.RawError`. This may be useful in cases where you are not
+using `Http.fromJson`, and your API prefers to deal with `Http.Error` rather
+than `Http.RawError`.
+
+```elm
+interpretStatus : Task RawError Response -> Task Error Response
+```
+
+Decorates the result of `Http.send` so that responses with a status code
+which is outside of the 2XX range are processed as `BadResponse` errors (to be
+further handled via `Task.onError` or `Task.mapError` etc.), rather than as
+successful responses (to be further handled by `Task.andThen` or `Task.map`
+etc.).  This may be useful in cases where you are not using `Http.fromJson` and
+you do not need to distinguish amongst different types of successful status
+code.
+
+## Combining the functions
+
+You can apply the decorators to individual uses of `Http.send` -- for example:
+
+```elm
+addCacheBuster Http.send Http.defaultSettings
+    { verb = "GET"
+    , headers = []
+    , url = Http.url "/api/account" []
+    , body = Http.empty
+    }
+```
+
+Alternatively, you can compose a decorated function and use it repeatedly, e.g.
+
+```elm
+specialSend : Settings -> Request -> Task RawError Response
+specialSend = addCacheBuster Http.send
+```
+
+The definition of something like `specialSend` is left for client code, so that
+you can mix and match whichever decorators you need. You could conceivably also
+want to partially apply `Http.defaultSettings` (or your own defaultSettings).
+Thus, one combination which can be useful is as follows:
+
+```elm
+verySpecialSend : Request -> Task Error Response
+verySpecialSend = interpretStatus << addCacheBuster Http.send Http.defaultSettings
+```
+
+You could then call `verySpecialSend` like this:
+
+```elm
+verySpecialSend
+    { verb = "GET"
+    , headers = []
+    , url = Http.url "/api/account" []
+    , body = Http.empty
+    }
+```
+
+... and, of course, you could still provide an `andThen`, `map`, `mapError`, `onError` etc.
+to do any further work that might be needed with the Http.Error or Http.Result.
+
+Alternatively, if the `Settings` need to vary at each call-site, you can do something
+like this:
+
+```elm
+lessSpecialSend : Settings -> Request -> Task Error Response
+lessSpecialSend settings = interpretStatus << addCacheBuster Http.send settings
+```
+
+Note that some of this is redundant if you are using `Http.fromJson` anyway, since
+`Http.fromJson` already does the equivalent of `promoteError` and `interpretStatus`.
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+{
+    "version": "1.0.0",
+    "summary": "Additional functions for use with elm-http",
+    "repository": "https://github.com/rgrempel/elm-http-decorators.git",
+    "license": "BSD3",
+    "source-directories": [
+        "src"
+    ],
+    "exposed-modules": [
+        "Http.Decorators"
+    ],
+    "dependencies": {
+        "elm-lang/core": "2.0.0 <= v < 3.0.0",
+        "evancz/elm-http": "1.0.0 <= v < 2.0.0",
+        "evancz/task-tutorial": "1.0.0 <= v < 2.0.0"
+    },
+    "elm-version": "0.15.0 <= v < 0.16.0"
+}
diff --git a/src/Http/Decorators.elm b/src/Http/Decorators.elm
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+module Http.Decorators (addCacheBuster, promoteError, interpretStatus) where
+
+{-| This module supplies several functions which you can use to decorate
+`Http.send` in order to create a function with additional behaviour. You can
+apply the decorators to individual uses of `Http.send` -- for example:
+
+    addCacheBuster Http.send Http.defaultSettings
+        { verb = "GET"
+        , headers = []
+        , url = Http.url "/api/account" []
+        , body = Http.empty
+        }
+
+Alternatively, you can compose a decorated function and use it repeatedly, e.g.
+
+    specialSend : Settings -> Request -> Task RawError Response
+    specialSend = addCacheBuster Http.send
+
+The definition of something like `specialSend` is left for client code, so that
+you can mix and match whichever decorators you need. You could conceivably also
+want to partially apply `Http.defaultSettings` (or your own defaultSettings).
+Thus, one combination which can be useful is as follows:
+
+    verySpecialSend : Request -> Task Error Response
+    verySpecialSend = interpretStatus << addCacheBuster Http.send Http.defaultSettings
+
+You could then call `verySpecialSend` like this:
+
+    verySpecialSend
+        { verb = "GET"
+        , headers = []
+        , url = Http.url "/api/account" []
+        , body = Http.empty
+        }
+
+... and, of course, you could still provide an `andThen`, `map`, `mapError`, `onError` etc.
+to do any further work that might be needed with the `Http.Error` or `Http.Result`.
+
+Alternatively, if the `Settings` need to vary at each call-site, you can do something
+like this:
+
+    lessSpecialSend : Settings -> Request -> Task Error Response
+    lessSpecialSend settings = interpretStatus << addCacheBuster Http.send settings
+
+Note that some of this is redundant if you are using `Http.fromJson` anyway, since
+`Http.fromJson` already does the equivalent of `promoteError` and `interpretStatus`.
+
+@docs addCacheBuster, promoteError, interpretStatus
+-}
+
+
+import Http exposing (Settings, Request, RawError(..), Error(..), Response, send)
+import Task exposing (Task, andThen, mapError, succeed, fail)
+import TaskTutorial exposing (getCurrentTime)
+import String exposing (contains, endsWith)
+
+
+{- Public API -}
+
+{-| Decorates `Http.send` so that a 'cache busting' parameter will always be
+added to the URL -- e.g. '?cacheBuster=219384729384', where the number is
+derived from the current time.  The purpose of doing this would be to help
+defeat any caching that might otherwise take place at some point between the
+client and server.
+-}
+addCacheBuster : (Settings -> Request -> Task RawError Response) -> (Settings -> Request -> Task RawError Response)
+addCacheBuster func settings request =
+    let
+        sendWithTime time =
+            func settings
+                { request | url <- urlWithTime time }
+
+        urlWithTime time =
+            -- essentially, we want to add ?cacheBuster=123482
+            -- or, &cacheBuster=123482
+            urlWithParamSeparator ++ "cacheBuster=" ++ (toString time)
+
+        urlWithParamSeparator =
+            if endsWith "?" urlWithQueryIndicator
+               then urlWithQueryIndicator
+               else urlWithQueryIndicator ++ "&"
+
+        urlWithQueryIndicator =
+            if contains "?" request.url
+                then request.url
+                else request.url ++ "?"
+
+    in
+        getCurrentTime `andThen` sendWithTime
+
+
+{-| Decorates the result of `Http.send` so that the error type is `Http.Error`
+rather than `Http.RawError`. This may be useful in cases where you are not
+using `Http.fromJson`, and your API prefers to deal with `Http.Error` rather
+than `Http.RawError`.
+
+Pay attention to return types when composing this decorator with other
+decorators.  For intance, if used in conjunction with `addCacheBuster`, you
+would need to apply `addCacheBuster` first.  E.g.
+
+    -- Good
+    promoteError << addCacheBuster Http.send Http.defaultSettings
+
+    -- Bad
+    addCacheBuster promoteError << Http.send Http.defaultSettings
+-}
+promoteError : Task RawError Response -> Task Error Response
+promoteError task =
+    let
+        promote error =
+            case error of
+                RawTimeout -> Timeout
+                RawNetworkError -> NetworkError
+
+    in
+        mapError promote task
+
+
+{-| Decorates the result of `Http.send` so that responses with a status code
+which is outside of the 2XX range are processed as `BadResponse` errors (to be
+further handled via `Task.onError` or `Task.mapError` etc.), rather than as
+successful responses (to be further handled by `Task.andThen` or `Task.map`
+etc.).  This may be useful in cases where you are not using `Http.fromJson` and
+you do not need to distinguish amongst different types of successful status
+code.
+
+Note that this automatically also applies `promoteError`, so you do not need to
+apply that decorator as well.
+-}
+interpretStatus : Task RawError Response -> Task Error Response
+interpretStatus task =
+    let
+        handleResponse response =
+            if response.status >= 200 && response.status < 300
+                then succeed response
+                else fail (BadResponse response.status response.statusText)
+
+    in
+        promoteError task `andThen` handleResponse