// the base URL of the api; all requests start with it
const base_url: string = "https://api.phite.ro";

/*
export const makeGetRequest = async<T> (path: string): Promise<T> => {
  return await (await fetch( base_url + path )).json();
}
*/

// generic function that makes a web request
const makeRequest = async (path: string, method: string, body?: string): Promise<Response> => {
  console.log( `making ${method} request: ${base_url + path}, ${body}` );
  return fetch( base_url + path, { method: method, body: body ? body : null } );
}

// the following functions are wrappers around `makeRequest`,
// for every type of request that's needed.

export const makeGetRequest = async<T> (path: string): Promise<T> => {
  return (await makeRequest( path, "GET" )).json();
}

export const makePostRequest = async<T> (path: string, body: T): Promise<T> => {
  return (await makeRequest( path, "POST", JSON.stringify( body ) )).json();
} 

export const makePutRequest = async<T> (path: string, body: T): Promise<T> => {
  return (await makeRequest( path, "PUT", JSON.stringify( body ) )).json();
}

export const makeDeleteRequest = async<T> (path: string): Promise<T> => {
  return (await makeRequest( path, "DELETE" )).json();
}