mongo-tree

This module provides CRUD operation methods for inserting, updating, and removing of entire tree structures to a MongoDB collection.

The module uses the promised-mongo module.

Requirements

• tree-structure: link
• MongoDB connection
  • 1 collection for the trees
  • 1 collection for the nodes

Testing

mocha

Examples

Connecting/Setup

Connecting is simple:

var mongoTree = require('mongo-tree');
mongoTree.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test');

mongo-tree requires two collections, which can be set up like this:

var mongoTree = require('mongo-tree');
mongoTree.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test', {
  nodeCollection: 'myNodesCollectionName',
  treeCollection: 'myTreesCollectionName',
});

Inserting

var Tree = require('tree-structure').Tree;
var MongoTree = require('mongo-tree');
var mongoTree = new MongoTree();

// Create a new tree object.
var tree = new Tree();

// Convert a JSON tree (with children nodes) into a tree structure in memory. See documentation on tree-structure.
tree.unflatten(
  {
    id: 'my test tree!',
    options: {
      childrenField: 'children'
    },
    root: {
      id: 1,
      data: 'this is the root data'
      children: [{
        id: 2,
        data: 'this is the child nodes (2) data'
      }, {
        id: 3,
        data: 'this is the child nodes (3) data'
      }, {
        id: 4,
        data: 'this is the child nodes (4) data'
      }]
    }
  }
);

mongoTree.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test');

mongoTree.insert(tree); // Will create 1 tree document and 4 node documents.

Multiple inserts can be performed at a time, like this:

var tree1 = new Tree(),
  tree2 = new Tree(),
  tree3 = new Tree();
...
mongoTree.insert(tree1, tree2, tree3).then(function () {
    console.log('success!');
  });

Retrieving

Trees are retrieved by the tree id:

var Tree = require('tree-structure').Tree;
var MongoTree = require('mongo-tree');
var mongoTree = new MongoTree();

mongoTree.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test');

var treeId = 'some tree id to find';

mongoTree.find(treeId).then(function (tree) {
    console.log('The recoupled tree is: ', tree);
  });

Removing

Trees are removed from the database by their tree id:

var Tree = require('tree-structure').Tree;
var MongoTree = require('mongo-tree');
var mongoTree = new MongoTree();

mongoTree.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test');

var treeId = 'some tree id to delete';

mongoTree.remove(treeId).then(function () {
    console.log('Deleted.');
  });

Removing Orphaned Nodes

TODO: right now removing a tree simply removes the structure, but not the nodes as each code can technically be referenced by multiple parent trees. As a result, a method will need to be built to ensure removal of orphaned nodes.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Joshua Jung

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