nxus-admin

Admin

Extends NxusModule

The Base Admin class provides a web interface for managing Nxus applications and data.

getAdminUrl

Returns String the root Url where the admin interface is available.

page

Registers a page with the admin interface. Pages can be defined two different ways.

Template Partials

admin.page('/route', 'partial-name')

Route Handlers

admin.page('/route', () => { // return a response to be rendered within admin template }) admin.page({route: '/route', directHandler: true}, (req, res) => {...})

Options

The first argument can either be a string or an options hash. If an options hash, it must include a route attribute.

Other options include:

• route: Required. The route to the page.
• method: the HTTP method to use for the route.
• label: the nav label to use. Defaults to a title version of the route.
• nav: set to false to skip creating a nav item: useful for routes with no display.
• directHandler: if true, the handler is a full route handler. Otherwise, wrapped to send reponse
• order: the order of the nav menu.
• icon: the icon class to use for the page in the nav and other places.

Parameters

• opts (String | Object) The route or options for the page
• responder (String | Function) The string partial name or handler function for the route

help

Registers help text for the admin interface.

Parameters

• section String The nav section
• welcome String The template partial name to render as welcome and help
• detail String? An additional partial to render on the help detail

addNav

Register an admin nav menu item, wraps web-nav for relative URls and menu name

Parameters

• label String Label for nav item
• route String Either a relative (joined with adminUrl) or absolute URL to link to
• opts Object nav menu options for web-nav, e.g. icon, order (optional, default {})

manage

Create an AdminController for a given model. Takes either the model identity, or an object to pass to the constructor of AdminController with at least {model: 'identity'}

Parameters

• opts (String | Object) The model identity or options object. (optional, default {})

AdminController

Extends EditController

A base class for admin model controllers. Overrides the EditController options defaults to provide admin prefixes for routes ("/admin/model-identity") and templates ("model-identity-admin"), and by default wraps templates in 'admin-page' rather than 'page'.

Parameters (in addition to EditController parameters)

• icon - [deprecated] icon class for nav - defaults to fa-files-o
• order - optional ordering for nav
• uploadType - dataManager import type (e.g. csv, json), if set an Import action is available.
• uploadOptions - options to pass to dataManager parser
• downloadType - dataManager download type. If set, a Download action is available.

Parameters

• opts

addNav

Register an admin nav menu item under this model

Parameters

• label String Label for nav item
• route String Either a relative (joined with adminUrl) or absolute URL to link to
• opts Object nav menu options for web-nav, e.g. icon, order (optional, default {})

addAction

Register an admin action item for this model, wrapping web-actions

Parameters

• page String Template suffix: 'list', 'edit', 'create', 'detail'
• label String Label for action
• route String Sub-route for action
• opts Object options for web-actions, e.g. icon, template (optional, default {})

addInstanceAction

Register an admin instance action item for this model's list page, wrapping web-actions

Parameters

• label String Label for action
• route String Sub-route for action
• opts Object options for web-actions, e.g. icon, template (optional, default {})

_formatDownloadRecord

Override in subclass to do additional formatting of records for download

Parameters

• record Object
• attrs

Returns Object formatted record