sails-hook-serializer

This project was created under the impression of ActiveModelSerializers Rails gem

Installation

$ npm install --save sails-hook-serializer

create Serializer.js file in your services folder with content :

module.exports = require('sails-hook-serializer/api/services/Serializer.js');

Customization

By default for all your models will created serializer in runtime. For customization create folder serializers under api deirectory and put here you custom serializers. For example:

//api/serializers/UserSerializer.js

module.exports = {
  attributes: [
    'email',
    'firstName',
    'lastName',
    'phone',
    'anyCustomAttribute'
  ],

  anyCustomAttribute: function(record) {
    return record.id * 10  - 999;
  },
	
  modifyAttributes: function(record, serialized, currentUser) {
    serialized.newAttr = record.myAnotherAttr;
  }
};	

Attributes - it's array of fields that result json will have. Attribute can be attribute of a record or serializer.

At the end of serialization method modifyAttributes invokes. Inside this method any data can be modified.

All methods can return promise.

Call Serializer

new Serializer(User, users, currentUser, meta)

First argument is model name, second record or array of records.