level-relation

relations and joins between sublevels

Installing

npm install level-relation

Example

var level = require('level');
var sublevel = require('sublevel');
var indexing = require('level-indexing');
var relation = require('level-relation');

var top = level('./level-test');
var db = sublevel(top, { valueEncoding: 'json' });

// create some sublevels
var users = db.sublevel('users');
var posts = db.sublevel('posts');

// enable indexing
indexing(users);
indexing(posts);

// index some properties
users.index('username');
posts.index('title');

// create some entries
var user = { username: 'john' };
var post = { title: 'foobar' };

users.put(1, user, function(err){
  posts.put(2, post, function(err){
    // create a dual relation
    relation(users, posts)
    .put(post).in(user, 'posts')
    .and(user).in(post, 'owner')
    .end(function(err){
      if (err) throw err;

      var p = users.posts.by(user);
      p.on('data', console.log); // => { title: 'foobar' }

      var u = posts.owner.by(post);
      u.on('data', console.log); // => { username: 'john' }
    });
  });
});

API

relation(a, b)

Create a relation job.

put(x).in(y, name)

Puts x in y relations of name.

Example:

relation(users, posts)
.put(post).in(user, 'posts')

put(x).in(y, name).and(y).in(x, name)

Creates a dual relation.

Example:

relation(users, posts)
.put(post).in(user, 'posts')
.and(user).in(post, 'owner')

del(x).from(y, name)

Deletes relation name between x with y.

Example:

relation(users, posts)
.del(post).from(user, 'posts')

del(x).from(y, name).and(y).from(x, name)

Deletes a dual relation.

Example:

relation(users, posts)
.del(post).from(user, 'posts')
.and(user).from(post, 'owner')

end(fn)

Executes batch job and callbacks fn.

Example:

relation(users, posts)
.put(post).in(user, 'posts')
.and(user).in(post, 'owner')
.end(function(err){
  if (err) throw err; // throws on duplicate relations
  // relations created
});

name.by(x[, options])

Creates a ReadStream for name relations by x.

Options:

• keys=false {Boolean} when true, stream keys without resolving
• ordered=true {Boolean} preserve insertion order

Examples:

// will resolve every relation and stream the foreign objects
// ordered by the insertion time (slowest)
var p = users.posts.by(user);

// will resolve every relation and stream the foreign objects
// unordered (bit faster)
var p = users.posts.by(user, { ordered: false });

// will only stream the foreign keys, ordered by time (fast)
var p = users.posts.by(user, { keys: true });

// only gets foreign keys, not ordered by time (fastest)
var p = users.posts.by(user, { keys: true, ordered: false });

License

MIT