#Elasticbone

NOTE: This project is still in development, and not production ready. Though hopefully soon it will be.

Elasticsearch is an awesome document store, with a nice rest api. Backbone is an awesome MVC framework, where the model are defined to interact with a rest api. Elasticbone is an extension making it easy for Backbone models to be connected to Elasticsearch documents.

Elasticbone is usable in both a browser, or node.js server.

To install

npm install elasticbone

##Examples The easiest way to describe elasticbone is to give a few examples based on creating a blog.

Elasticbone = require 'elasticbone'

class User extends Elasticbone.ElasticModel

class Post extends Elasticbone.ElasticModel

class Posts extends Elasticbone.ElasticCollection
  model: Post

Elasticmodels and elasticcollections reference an elasticsearch server, index and type.

class User extends Neckbone.ElasticModel
  server: 'localhost:9000' 
  index: 'blog'
  type: 'user'

class Post extends Neckbone.ElasticModel
  server: 'localhost:9000' 
  index: 'blog'
  type: 'post'

class Posts extends Neckbone.ElasticCollection
  server: 'localhost:9000' 
  index: 'blog'
  type: 'post'

###Relationships Elasticbone also lets you define relationships between backbone models and elasticsearch documents.

To relate models together the has function is used, and options are passed to it. The basic structure is has 'attribute', Model, {options}

By default the relationship will be treated as a subdocument, e.g.

Given a Post document in elasticsearch looks like:

{
tags: [{name: 'foo'}, {name: 'bar'}]
}

This relationships would be defined using elasticbone as such,

class Tag extends Backbone.Model

class Tags extends Backbone.Collection

class Post extends Neckbone.ElasticModel
  ...
  @has 'tags', Tags

NOTE: Tag is not an ElasticModel as it is not a document in Elasticsearch.

###has seperate ElasticModel relationship

class Posts extends Neckbone.ElasticCollection
  fetch_query: -> {"query":{"field": {"author":"\"#{this.get('user').name}\""}}}
    
class User extends Neckbone.ElasticModel
  ...
  @has 'posts', Posts, method: 'fetch'

user = new User(id: 1)
user.fetch(success: ->
  posts = user.get('posts')
)

When user.get('posts') the posts are fetched out of elasticsearch using the fetch_query which selects all posts where the field author is exactly the users name.

###Note: Circular has A problem occurs when a model wants to have reverse relations, e.g. a user has posts, and a post has a user.

As javascript will execute in order THIS CODE WILL NOT WORK, because when User references posts it will not exist yet.

class User extends Neckbone.ElasticModel
  @has 'posts', Posts

class Posts extends Neckbone.ElasticCollection
  @has 'author', User 

Instead you can use has after the classes declaration

class User extends Neckbone.ElasticModel

class Posts extends Neckbone.ElasticCollection
  @has 'author', User

User.has 'posts', Posts

##Development

Installation: npm inst Testing: npm test Contribution: Welcome

##Production release

Aimed support for

1. has_one parse and fetch queries
2. has_many parse and fetch queries
3. Geographic Queries