mongoose-plugins-trashable

This mongoose plugin adds the ability to soft-delete model instances, optionally records the id of a model (usually a User) responsible for the action.

Also, the Model.count(), Model.find(), Model.findOne(), Model.findById() and other static methods is augmented to show only non-trashed instances by default. You can still retrieve trashed instances by using new static methods Model.findTrashed(), Model.findWithTrashed etc. Refer to the test cases for their usage.

Use with Caution

This plugin internally overriden the model's count(), find() and many static methods to retrieve only trashed instances. It also adds a by() to mongoose.Query to enable a sweet syntax to record Users responsible for the delete action.

If you don't feel right about modifying/extending native APIs, please don't use this plugin.

This plugin is inspired by yi's plugin.

Install

Install the module with:

npm install mongoose-plugins-trashable

Usage

var Schema    = require('mongoose').Schema;
var trashable = require('mongoose-plugins-trashable');
var should    = require('should');

var TrashableSchema = new Schema({});
TrashableSchema.plugin(trachsable);
Trashable = mongoose.model('Trashable', TrashableSchema);

var trashable = new TrashableModel(); // assume async

// the attributes are created with null values
trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.null;
trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy').that.is.null;


//
// promise style
//

// trash an object
trashable.trash.exec().then(function(trashable) {
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.a('Date');
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy').that.is.null;
}).done();

// trash an object, and mark the User responsible
var User = mongoose.model('User');
var user = new User({}); // assume async
trashable.trash().by(user).exec().then(function(trashable) {
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.a('Date');
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy');
    trashable.trashedBy.toString().should.equals(user.id);
}).done();

// restore a trashed object
trashable.restore().exec().then(function(trashable) {
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.null;
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy').that.is.null;
}).done();


//
// callback style
//

// trash an object
trashable.trash(function(err, trashable) {
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.a('Date');
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy').that.is.null;
});

// trash an object, and mark the User responsible
var User = mongoose.model('User');
var user = new User({}); // assume async
trashable.trash().by(user, function(err, trashable) {
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.a('Date');
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy');
    trashable.trashedBy.toString().should.equals(user.id);
});

// restore a trashed object
trashable.restore(function(err, trashable) {
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedAt').that.is.null;
    trashable.should.have.property('trashedBy').that.is.null;
});

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Justin Lau [email protected]

Licensed under the MIT license.