express-restify-mongoose-patch

Easily create a flexible REST interface for mongoose models. This module is intended to be only temporary implementation enabling RFC6902 (JSON patch). It works exactly as the original express-restify-mongoose module. A pull request is pending on the original module, as soon as it will be accepted this module will be deleted.

The original idea came out from this discussion: https://github.com/florianholzapfel/express-restify-mongoose/issues/224

Caveats

• mongoose-json-patch must be pluged by the user in schema definition. I tried to plug it addressing model.schema inside express-restify-mongoose module without success.
• The structure of this module is a chain of middlewares and it was too hard for me to distinguish the behavior between PATCH with application/json and the one with application/json-patch+json. So in my implementation PATCH with application/json doesn't use findOneAndUpdate even if the correspondent option is true because I needed to run the filterAndFindById instead.
• To use this implementation bodyParser.json has to accept application/json-patch+json content type so in the application must be declared something like:

router.use (bodyParser.json({strict:false, type: (req) => {
var ct = req.headers['content-type'];
return (ct === 'application/json-patch+json') || (ct === 'application/json');
}}));

otherwise req.body will be empty and won't be applied any patch.

Getting started

From 1.0.0 onwards, the library is only compatible with mongoose >= 4. For mongoose 3.x compatibility, use the 0.7.x branch.

npm install express-restify-mongoose-patch --save

Documentation

https://florianholzapfel.github.io/express-restify-mongoose/

License (MIT)

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