tiny-controllers

Controller with base methods for your REST server. Tiny-controllers now only supports for Mongoose.

Installation

$ npm install --save tiny-controllers

Usage

• Create your *.d.ts in root folder and add reference to tiny-controllers type.

// app.d.ts

/// <reference types="tiny-controllers" />

• Create your own Controller then extends TinyController.

// IUser is model interface and
// IUserDoc is model interface which extends Document (Mongoose)
class UsersController extends TinyController<IUser, IUserDoc> {
  constructor() {
    super(User);
  }
  newMethod(req: Request, res: Response) {
    ...
      .then(data => this.sendSuccess(res, data))
      .catch(error => this.sendFailure(res, error));
  }
}

Properties

• _model

Model

Use for child class to override or create new methods.

protected _model: Model<DocType>;

// Example usage
import { UserModel } from './UserModel';

class UserController extends TinyController<IUser, IUserDoc> {
  constructor() {
    super(User);
  }
  // override
  doGet(req: Request, res: Response) {
    // some code here...
    this._model.findById(...)
      .then(...)
      .catch(...);
    // some code here...
  }
  newMethod(req: Request, res: Response) {
    // some code here...
    this._model.find({...})
      .then(...)
      .catch(...);
    // some code here...
  }
  ...
}
...

Methods

• constructor
• doFind
• doGet
• doPost
• doPut
• doDelete
• sendSuccess
• sendFailure

constructor

constructor(model: Model<DocType>);

doFind

doFind(req: Request, res: Response): void;

doGet

doGet(req: Request, res: Response): void;

doPost

doPost(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction): void;

doPut

doPut(req: Request, res: Response): void;

doDelete

doDelete(req: Request, res: Response): void;

sendSuccess

protected sendSuccess(res: Response, data: any): void;

sendFailure

protected sendFailure(next: NextFunction, error: any): void;

License

MIT