NextModelApiServerExpress

Api Server for ApiClient using NextModel package.

Features:

• Shared model for Server and Client.
• Allows to plug in every server side connector to connect Api to database
• Allows Api-Endpoint to de on a different domain
• Api Versioning
• Custom Routes and Actions

Roadmap / Where can i contribute

See GitHub project for current progress/tasks

• Fix Typos
• Add user credentials to queries
• Settings to configure cors headers
• Add more examples
• Add exists, join and subqueries
• There are already some tests, but not every test case is covered

TOC

• Example
• Custom Routes
  • Path
  • Version
  • Name
  • Postfix
  • Action Path
  • Action Method
• Changelog

Example

Custom Routes

The route configuration is done at the defined (shared) Model.

Default Routes:

all    : POST /users
first  : POST /users/first
last   : POST /users/last
count  : POST /users/count
insert : POST /users/create
update : POST /user/:id
delete : POST /user/:id/delete

Path

The routePath defines the base route on the Server which contains the Api.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get routePath() {
    return 'api';
  }
}
 
const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /api/users
first  : POST /api/users/first
last   : POST /api/users/last
count  : POST /api/users/count
insert : POST /api/users/create
update : POST /api/user/:id
delete : POST /api/user/:id/delete

Version

The Api can be versioned with routeVersion.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get routePath() {
    return 'api';
  }
 
  static get routeVersion() {
    return 'v1';
  }
}
 
const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /api/v1/users
first  : POST /api/v1/users/first
last   : POST /api/v1/users/last
count  : POST /api/v1/users/count
insert : POST /api/v1/users/create
update : POST /api/v1/user/:id
delete : POST /api/v1/user/:id/delete

Name

The model name in the route defaults to the tableName, but can be overwritten by routeName.

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get routeName() {
    return 'account';
  }
}
 
const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /accounts
first  : POST /accounts/first
last   : POST /accounts/last
count  : POST /accounts/count
insert : POST /accounts/create
update : POST /account/:id
delete : POST /account/:id/delete

Postfix

The routePostfix can be used to define a file name for the Url.

Default: ''

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get routePostfix() {
    return '.json';
  }
}
 
const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /users.json
first  : POST /users/first.json
last   : POST /users/last.json
count  : POST /users/count.json
insert : POST /users/create.json
update : POST /user/:id.json
delete : POST /user/:id/delete.json

Action Path

The action url can be defined for every action.

Defaults:

• all: ''
• first: '/first'
• last: '/last'
• count: '/count'
• create: '/create'
• update: ''
• delete: '/_delete'

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get allActionPath() {
    return '/all';
  }
 
  static get firstActionPath() {
    return '';
  }
 
  static get updateActionPath() {
    return '/update';
  }
}
 
const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : POST /users/all
first  : POST /users
last   : POST /users/last
count  : POST /users/count
insert : POST /users/create
update : POST /user/:id/update
delete : POST /user/:id/delete

Action Method

The method url can be defined for every action.

Default: 'POST'

Please Note: The default is POST for every route, cause the filter payload can be too large for query strings.

const BaseModel = class BaseModel extends NextModel {
  static get allActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }
 
  static get firstActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }
 
  static get lastActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }
 
  static get countActionMethod() {
    return 'GET';
  }
 
  static get updateActionMethod() {
    return 'PATCH';
  }
 
  static get deleteActionMethod() {
    return 'DELETE';
  }
}
 
const User = class User extends BaseModel { ... }

all    : GET    /users
first  : GET    /users/first
last   : GET    /users/last
count  : GET    /users/count
insert : POST   /users/create
update : PATCH  /user/:id
delete : DELETE /user/:id/delete

Changelog

See history for more details.

• 0.1.0 **2017-04-05 First public release