NextModelApiClientConnector

Api client for ApiServer using NextModel package.

Features:

• Shared model for Server and Client.
• Supports all server side supported queries
• Allows Api-Endpoint to de on a different domain
• Api Versioning
• Custom Routes and Actions

Roadmap / Where can i contribute

See GitHub project for current progress/tasks

• Fix Typos
• Add user credentials to queries
• Add more examples
• Add exists, join and subqueries
• There are already some tests, but not every test case is covered.

TOC

• Example
• Custom Routes
  • Domain
  • IsRelative
  • Path
  • Version
  • Name
  • Postfix
  • Action Path
  • Action Method
• Changelog

Example

The connector fetches all settings from the class or base class used.

const User = class User extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routeDomain() {
    return 'http://api.example.com'
  }

  static get modelName() {
    return 'User';
  }

  static get schema() {
    return {
      id: { type: 'integer' },
      name: { type: 'string' },
    };
  }
}

Create an base model with the connector to use it with multiple models.

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }
});

const User = class User extends BaseModel {
  static get modelName() {
    return 'User';
  }

  static get schema() {
    return {
      id: { type: 'integer' },
      name: { type: 'string' },
    };
  }
}

const Address = class Address extends BaseModel {
  static get modelName() {
    return 'Address';
  }

  static get schema() {
    return {
      id: { type: 'integer' },
      street: { type: 'string' },
    };
  }
}

Custom Routes

The route configuration is done at the defined (shared) Model.

Default Routes:

all    : POST /users
first  : POST /users/first
last   : POST /users/last
count  : POST /users/count
insert : POST /users/create
update : POST /user/:id
delete : POST /user/:id/delete

Domain

The domain needs to be defined when your Api client is running on a different domain than the Backend.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routeDomain() {
    return 'http://api.example.com';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST http://api.example.com/users
first  : POST http://api.example.com/users/first
last   : POST http://api.example.com/users/last
count  : POST http://api.example.com/users/count
insert : POST http://api.example.com/users/create
update : POST http://api.example.com/user/:id
delete : POST http://api.example.com/user/:id/delete

IsRelative

Set routeIsRelative to true to prevent adding the leading / to the Url. Setting does not work when domain is present.

Default: false

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routeIsRelative() {
    return true;
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST users
first  : POST users/first
last   : POST users/last
count  : POST users/count
insert : POST users/create
update : POST user/:id
delete : POST user/:id/delete

Path

The routePath defines the base route on the Server which contains the Api.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routePath() {
    return 'api';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /api/users
first  : POST /api/users/first
last   : POST /api/users/last
count  : POST /api/users/count
insert : POST /api/users/create
update : POST /api/user/:id
delete : POST /api/user/:id/delete

Version

The Api can be versioned with routeVersion.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routePath() {
    return 'api';
  }

  static get routeVersion() {
    return 'v1';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /api/v1/users
first  : POST /api/v1/users/first
last   : POST /api/v1/users/last
count  : POST /api/v1/users/count
insert : POST /api/v1/users/create
update : POST /api/v1/user/:id
delete : POST /api/v1/user/:id/delete

Name

The model name in the route defaults to the tableName, but can be overwritten by routeName.

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routeName() {
    return 'account';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /accounts
first  : POST /accounts/first
last   : POST /accounts/last
count  : POST /accounts/count
insert : POST /accounts/create
update : POST /account/:id
delete : POST /account/:id/delete

Postfix

The routePostfix can be used to define a file name for the Url.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get routePostfix() {
    return '.json';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /users.json
first  : POST /users/first.json
last   : POST /users/last.json
count  : POST /users/count.json
insert : POST /users/create.json
update : POST /user/:id.json
delete : POST /user/:id/delete.json

Action Path

The action url can be defined for every action.

Defaults:

• all: ''
• first: '/first'
• last: '/last'
• count: '/count'
• create: '/create'
• update: ''
• delete: '/_delete'

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get allActionPath() {
    return '/all';
  }

  static get firstActionPath() {
    return '';
  }

  static get updateActionPath() {
    return '/update';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /users/all
first  : POST /users
last   : POST /users/last
count  : POST /users/count
insert : POST /users/create
update : POST /user/:id/update
delete : POST /user/:id/delete

Action Method

The method url can be defined for every action.

Default: 'POST'

Please Note: The default is POST for every route, cause the filter payload can be too large for query strings.

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get connector() {
    return NextModelApiClientConnector;
  }

  static get allActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }

  static get firstActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }

  static get lastActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }

  static get countActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }

  static get updateActionMethod() {
    return 'PATCH';
  }

  static get deleteActionMethod() {
    return 'DELETE';
  }
}

const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : GET    /users
first  : GET    /users/first
last   : GET    /users/last
count  : GET    /users/count
insert : POST   /users/create
update : PATCH  /user/:id
delete : DELETE /user/:id/delete

Changelog

See history for more details.

• 0.1.0 2017-03-15 First release compatible with NextModel 0.4.0
• 0.1.1 2017-04-05 Updated next-model dependency
• 0.2.0 2017-04-05 First public release