express-restify-mongoose

This library provides mongoose database models with a REST interface.

Getting started

In your shell, install with npm:

npm install express-restify-mongoose

In your code:

var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var restify = require('express-restify-mongoose')

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/database');

var Customer = new Schema({
	name: { type: String, required: true },
	comment: { type: String }
});
var CustomerModel = mongoose.model('Customer', Customer);

var Invoice = new Schema({
    customer: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Customer' },
	amount: { type: Number, required: true }
});
var InvoiceModel = mongoose.model('Invoice', Invoice);

var app = express();
app.configure(function(){
	app.use(express.bodyParser());
	app.use(express.methodOverride());
	restify.serve(app, CustomerModel);
	restify.serve(app, InvoiceModel);
});

http.createServer(app).listen(3000, function() {
	console.log("Express server listening on port 3000");
});

GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers/count
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers
PUT http://localhost/api/v1/customers
POST http://localhost/api/v1/customers
DELETE http://localhost/api/v1/customers

GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers/:id
PUT http://localhost/api/v1/customers/:id
POST http://localhost/api/v1/customers/:id
DELETE http://localhost/api/v1/customers/:id

Query

GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?name=~regex
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?name=value
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?name=>value
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?name=>=value
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?name=<value
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?name=<=value
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?select=name

Ordering

GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?order=name
GET http://localhost/api/v1/customers?skip=10&limit=10

Populate Fields

GET http://localhost/api/v1/invoices?populate=customer

Reference

serve

serve(app, model, [options])

arguments

• app - The express app
• model - Your mongoose database model
• options - Optional options object
  • prefix - Some path that will be prefixed to the REST path. Defaults to /api
  • version - An API version that will be prefixed to the rest path. Defaults to v1
  • middleware - An express middleware or an array of express middlewares that will be used.
  • plural - If true, does not pluralize the database model name. Default is false
  • exclude - String of comma separated field names which are not to be returned by queries.
  • postProcess - A middleware to be called after the response has been sent. It is only executed on success. If an error is sent to the client, this is not executed.

Contributors

• Enric León (https://github.com/nothingbuttumbleweed)
• David Higginbotham (https://github.com/dhigginbotham)
• Jonathan Greenemeier (https://github.com/6eDesign)
• Alan Levicki (https://github.com/alevicki)

Formalia

Copyright (C) 2013 by Florian Holzapfel

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