moleculer-adapter-feathers

Moleculer adapter to import feathers services. That includes:

• MongoDB
• Blob store
• Bookshelf
• CouchDB
• Elasticsearch
• Knex
• Mongoose
• NeDB
• RethinkDB
• Sequalize
• Waterline
• and many others

Install

$ npm install moleculer-adapter-feathers --save

Usage (example with Knex)

const Feathers = require("moleculer-adapter-feathers");
const { ServiceBroker } = require("moleculer");
const feathersKnex = require("feathers-knex");
const knex = require("knex");

const broker = new ServiceBroker();

// Create a DB service via knex for `user` entities
broker.createService({
    name: "users",
    mixins: [Feathers],
    settings: {
        feathers: {
            adapter: feathersKnex,
            options: {
                name: "users",
                Model: new knex({
                    client: "pg",
                    connection: { ... },
                }),
            },
        },
    },
});

broker.start()
// Create a new user
.then(() => broker.call("users.create", {
    username: "john",
    email: "[email protected]",
}))

// Get all users
.then(() => broker.call("users.find").then(console.log));

Settings

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | adapter | Object | Function | required | Feathers Knex service adapter. | | hooks | Object | {} | Object containing before and after hooks. | | options | Object | {} | Options passed to Feathers service adapter. |

Hooks

Hooks work just as they do in Feathers. They are passed down to a service in settings.feathers.hooks.

users.service.js

module.exports = {
    ...
    settings: {
        feathers: {
            adapter: feathersKnex,
            hooks: require('./hooks'),
            options: {
                name: "users",
                Model: new knex({
                    client: "pg",
                    connection: { ... },
                }),
            },
        },
    },
    ...
}

hooks.js

module.exports = {
    before: {
        create: [
            hook => {
                console.log('create hook')
                return hook
            },
        ],
        find: [],
        get: [],
        update: [],
        patch: [],
        remove: [],
    },
    after: {
        create: [],
        find: [],
        get: [],
        update: [],
        patch: [],
        remove: [],
    },
}

Actions

Standard Feathers actions are exposed: create, get, find, update, patch, remove with all the standard Feathers parameters. Actions can be overwritten.

Methods

Feathers service methods can be accessed directly via this.create, this.find and etc.

create

Create an object in a service.

Parameters

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | * | Any | {} | Object to be created. |

Results

Type: Object

Created object (or any other service response).

find

Find objects by a provided query, if any.

Parameters

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | * | Any | {} | Query specified by the service. |

Results

Type: Array[Object]

Array of results.

get

Get object in the service by a provided (unique) ID.

Parameters

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | id | String | Number | required | Object ID. |

Results

Type: Object

Object found by the ID.

patch

Changes the properties of an object.

Parameters

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | id | String | Number | required | Object ID. | | * | Any | {} | Values to be patched. |

Results

Type: Object

Object patched.

update

Overwrites an object's properties.

Parameters

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | id | String | Number | required | Object ID. | | * | Any | {} | Rest of the object. |

Results

Type: Object

Object updated.

remove

Remove object by ID.

Parameters

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | -------- | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | id | String | Number | required | Object ID. |

Results

Type: Object

Object removed.