sails-nested-blueprint
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Blueprints for nested waterline models for use in sails 1.0
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sails-nested-blueprint
As of sails 1.0, blueprints no longer support nested creates (passing along associated models during creates). This library brings it back in a non-obstrusive way.
Usage
Blueprint (Easiest)
The blueprint will automatically figure out which model to use just like sails blueprints.
blueprint
exposes a create
, a destroy
, an update
and a count
, so just do this in a controller method:
let {blueprint} = require('sails-nested-blueprint')
module.exports = blueprint
### Blueprint with options (Soft Delete)
Works just like the regular blueprint example, howerver allows passing an object with options for each of the blueprint methods.
Currently only `delete` supports options such as `cascade` (causes any associated record passed in with the main record to be deleted, same as `serviceFromReq(req).destroyNested`)
and `soft` (keeps the record but sets a flag `IsDeleted` to true on the affected records).
### "Soft Delete" Setup
In order for soft delete to work you have to add a boolean attribute to the model definition or in /config/models.js (to enable all your models to support soft deletes)
```js
let {blueprint} = require('sails-nested-blueprint')
// model using these blueprints will have its `isDeleted` attribute set to true instead of being deleted from the data store.
// If associated models are passed with the main record, they will also be soft-deleted since cascade is set to true
module.exports = blueprintOptions({destroy: {soft: true, cascade: true}})
The count
endpoint allows you to reach to /[model]/count
with a
query to retrieve the number of found elements, instead of the full
JSON object.
Cached Methods
We currently provide a couple of methods that make use of a simple but
extensible caching mechanism. The methods are find
and update
, and
to be able to use them, you'll need to provide a cache
object in the
configuration options passed to
blueprintOptions
. The cache
configuration object will have: a
provider
object containing a get
, a set
, a del
and a keys
functions,
and a prefix
alongsides the provider. See
the following code as an example of how to use these methods on a
Sails controller:
let sails = require('sails')
let redis = require('redis')
let Promise = require('bluebird')
Promise.promisifyAll(redis.RedisClient.prototype)
Promise.promisifyAll(redis.Multi.prototype)
let client = redis.createClient(sails.config.redis)
let expiration = 60 // a minute
let keysExpiration = 60 * 30 // 30 minutes
let prefix = 'my-cache'
let blueprint = require('sails-nested-blueprint').blueprintOptions({
cache: {
prefix,
provider: {
get: async key => JSON.parse(await client.getAsync(key)),
async set(key, val) {
let exp = (key === `${prefix}-keys`) ? keysExpiration : expiration
try {
await client.setexAsync(
key,
exp,
JSON.stringify(val)
)
} catch (e) {
console.error('Failed to setexAsync', {
key,
val,
})
}
},
async del(keys) {
await client.delAsync(keys)
},
async keys(query) {
await client.keys(query)
}
},
},
})
module.exports.find = blueprint.find
module.exports.update = blueprint.update
NOTE caching can be bypassed by returning false on an optional
a keygen
property passed to the options of blueprintOptions
.
This function receives the request object, so it can be personalized
for anything request-related.
Service
You can also use the service directly if you need to perform a nested
create (or destroy) as part of some other operation.
On the service, these functions are called createNested
and destroyNested
.
To perform a soft delete with a service use destroy({soft: true}, record)
or destroySoft(record)
or combine both nested and soft deletion destroyNestedSoft(record)
let {service} = require('sails-nested-blueprint')
let sails = require('sails')
let SomeOperation = async (...args) => {
let payload = getPayload(args)
await service(sails.models, 'SomeModel').createNested(payload) // Returns 201 if successful
doMoreStuff()
}
You can also use the helper utilities directly in a controller method to recreate what blueprint
does:
let {serviceFromReq, service} = require('sails-nested-blueprint')
module.exports = {
create: async (req, res) => res
.status(await serviceFromReq(req).createNested(req.allParams()))
.send()
}
It is much nicer if you use sails-async
- see the index.js source for the implementation