express-mquery

Expose mongoose query API through HTTP request with partial support of json-api:

• sparse-fieldsets
• sorting
• pagination
• filtering
• includes

Note: Checkout the current specification for more information.

Installation

$ npm install --save express-mquery

Usage

import expess from 'express';
import mquery from 'express-mquery';

const app = express();
app.use(mquery({ limit: 10, maxLimit: 50 }));

...

app.get('/users', (request, response, next) => {
  
  // obtain request.mquery
  console.log(request.mquery);

});

Structure

Once parse, express-mquery will extend http request with mquery field

Example:

GET /invoices?fields=number,amount&filter[name]=Bob
&filter[amount][$gte]=1200&include=customer,items
&fields[customer]=name,number&fields[items]=name,price
&page[number]=1&page[size]=10&sort[number]=1&sort[amount]=-1

Will be parsed into:

{
  filter: { name: "Bob", amount: { $gte: 1200 } },
  paginate: { limit: 10, skip: 0, page: 1 },
  populate: [
  	{ path: "customer", select: { name: 1, number: 1 } },
  	{ path: "items", select: { name: 1, price: 1 } }
  ],
  select: { number: 1, amount: 1 },
  sort: { number: 1, amount: -1 }
}

Where:

• filter : Is valid mongoose criteria and can be passed to find()
• paginate : Contains paging details that can be passed to limit(), skip()
• populate : Is valid mongoose populate option and can be passed to populate()
• select : Is valid mongoose project options and can be passed to select()
• sort : Is valid mongoose sort options and can be passed to sort()

Querying

When passing values as objects or arrays in URLs, they must be valid JSON

Sort

GET /customers?sort=name
GET /customers?sort=-name
GET /customers?sort={"name":1}
GET /customers?sort={"name":1, "email":-1}

or

GET /customers?sort=name
GET /customers?sort=-name
GET /customers?sort[name]=1&sort[email]=-1

Page

GET /customers?page=1
GET /customers?page=1&limit=10
GET /customers?page[number]=1&page[size]=10

Skip

GET /customers?skip=10

Limit

Only overrides maximum limit option set by the plugin if the queried limit is lower

GET /customers?limit=10

Query or Filters

Supports all mongodb operators ($regex, $gt, $gte, $lt, $lte, $ne, etc.)

GET /customers?query={"name":"Bob"}
GET /customers?query={"name":{"$regex":"/Bo$/"}}
GET /customers?query={"age":{"$gt":12}}
GET /customers?query={"age":{"$gte":12}}

or

GET /customers?filter[name]=Bob
GET /customers?filter[name][$regex]="/Bo$/"
GET /customers?filter[age][$gt]=12
GET /customers?filter[age][$gte]=12

Populate or Include

Works with create, read and update operations

GET /invoices?populate=customer
GET /invoices?populate={"path":"customer"}
GET /invoices?populate=[{"path":"customer"},{"path":"products"}]

or

GET /invoices?include=customer
GET /invoices?include[customer]=name,number&includes[items]=name,price
GET /invoices?include=customer,items&fields[customer]=name,number&fields[items]=name,price

Select or Fields

_id is always returned unless explicitely excluded

GET /customers?select=name
GET /customers?select=-name
GET /customers?select={"name":1}
GET /customers?select={"name":0}

or

GET /customers?fields=name
GET /customers?fields=-name
GET /customers?fields=name,email
GET /invoices?include=customer&fields[customer]=name

Testing

• Clone this repository

• Install grunt-cli global

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

• Install all development dependencies

$ npm install

• Then run test

$ npm test

Contribute

Fork this repo and push in your ideas. Do not forget to add a bit of test(s) of what value you adding.

Licence

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