JsonRestStores-mysql

DOCUMENTATION TAKEN OUT OF JSONRESTSTORES AFTER THE SPLIT

• Don't specify paramIds in schema. They will be added to the schema as {type: 'id' } automatically

• Don't specify searchSchema. It will be worked out taking all schema element marked as searchable: true (except paramIds)

• SimpleSchema - Github. This module makes it easy (and I mean, really easy) to define a schema and validate/cast data against it. It's really simple to extend a schema as well. It's a no-fuss module.

Custom searchSchema

In JsonRestStores you actually define what fields are acceptable as filters in implementQuery (specifically, request.options.conditions) with the property searchSchema, which is defined exactly as a schema. So, writing this is equivalent to the code just above:

// Basic definition of the managers store
class Managers extends HTTPMixin(Store) {
  static get schema () {
    return new Schema({
      name: { type: 'string', trim: 60 },
      surname: { type: 'string', searchable: true, trim: 60 }
    })
  }

  searchSchema: new Schema( {
    surname: { type: 'string', trim: 60 },
  }),

  static get storeName () { return 'managers' }
  static get publicURL () { return '/managers/:id' }

  static get handlePut () { return true }
  static get handlePost () { return true }
  static get handleGet () { return true }
  static get handleGetQuery () { return true }
  static get handleDelete () { return true }

  // ...implement??? functions
}

If searchSchema is not defined, JsonRestStores will create one based on your main schema by doing a shallow copy, excluding paramIds (which means that, in this case, id is not added automatically to searchSchema, which is most likely what you want).

If you define your own searchSchema, you are able to decide exactly how you want to filter the values. For example you could define a different default, or trim value, etc. You might also have fields that will create more complex queries. For example:

// Basic definition of the managers store
class Managers extends HTTPMixin(Store) {
  static get schema () {
    return new Schema({
      name: { type: 'string', searchable: true, trim: 60 },
      surname: { type: 'string', searchable: true, trim: 60 }
    })
  }

  searchSchema: new Schema( {
    surname: { type: 'string', trim: 60 },
    name: { type: 'string', trim: 60 },
    anyField: { type: string, trim: 60 }
  }),

  static get storeName () { return 'managers' }
  static get publicURL () { return '/managers/:id' }

  static get handlePut () { return true }
  static get handlePost () { return true }
  static get handleGet () { return true }
  static get handleGetQuery () { return true }
  static get handleDelete () { return true }

  async implementQuery (request) {
    // request.options.conditions might have 'any', which should generate
    // an SQL query checking both name and surname
  }

  // ...implement??? functions
}

Permissions

Every rest method runs checkPermissions() in order to check permissions. If everything is fine, checkPermissions() returns true; if it returns false, along with a message, it means that permission wasn't granted.

The checkPermissions() method has the following signature:

checkPermissions: function( request, method)

Here:

• request. It is the request object
• method. It can be post, put, get, getQuery, delete

Here is an example of a store only allowing deletion only to specific admin users:

Note that if your store is derived from another one, and you want to preserve the parent store's permission model, you can run super.checkPermissions():

  async checkPermissions (request, method) {

    // Run the parent's permission check. If it failed, honour the failure
    let { granted, message } = super.checkPermissions(request, method)
    if (!granted) return { granted: true }

    // We are only adding checks for  `put`.
    // In any other case, will go along with the parent's response
    if (method === 'put') return { granted: true }

    // User is admin (id: 1 )
    if( request.session.user === 1){ return { granted: true }
    else return { granted: false, message: 'Only admin can do this'}
  },

Please note that checkPermissions() is only run for local requests, with remote set to false. All requests coming from APIs will ignore the method.

A note on publicURL and paramIds

When you define a store like this:

var Managers = declare( Store, {

  schema: new Schema({
    name   : { type: 'string', trim: 60 },
    surname: { type: 'string', trim: 60 },
  }),

  storeName: 'managers',
  publicURL: '/managers/:id',

  handlePut: true,
  handlePost: true,
  handleGet: true,
  handleGetQuery: true,
  handleDelete: true,

  hardLimitOnQueries: 50,
});

managers.protocolListen( 'HTTP', { app: app } );;

The publicURL is used to:

• Add id: { type: id } to the schema automatically. This is done so that you don't have to do the grunt work of defining id in the schema if they are already in publicURL.
• Create the paramIds array for the store. In this case, paramIds will be [ 'id' ].

So, you could reach the same goal without publicURL:

// Basic definition of the managers store
class Managers extends HTTPMixin(Store) {
  static get schema () {
    return new Schema({
      id: { type: 'id' },
      name: { type: 'string', searchable: true, trim: 60 },
      surname: { type: 'string', trim: 60 }
    })
  }

  static get paramIds () { return [ 'id' ] }

  static get storeName () { return 'managers' }
  static get publicURL () { return '/managers/:id' }

  static get handlePut () { return true }
  static get handlePost () { return true }
  static get handleGet () { return true }
  static get handleGetQuery () { return true }
  static get handleDelete () { return true }
  // ...implement??? functions
}

Note that:

• The id parameter had to be defined in the schema
• The paramIds array had to be defined by hand
• managers.protocolListenHTTP({ app: app } ); can't be used as the public URL is not there

In any case, the property idProperty is set as last element of paramIds; in this example, it is id.

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/* Schema options * searchable (added to searchSchema automatically if searchSchema not set) * silent (not fetched in query and fetch if true) */