trailpack-footprints

Footprints Trailpack. This trailpack provides the footprint interface, which other trailpacks such as trailpack-waterline and trailpack-knex implement, as well as a suite of tests that Footprint implementations should pass.

What are Footprints?

Footprints automatically generate easy-to-use RESTful endpoints for your models.

Install

$ npm install --save trailpack-footprints

Configure

// config/main.js
module.exports = {
  packs: [
    // ... other trailpacks
    require('trailpack-footprints')
  ]
}

// config/footprints.js
module.exports = {
  /**
   * Generate routes for controller handlers.
   * You can set controllers to true/false to enable/disable 
   * automatic footprints routes globaly
   */
  controllers: {
               
     /**
      * Default methods to accept for routes generated from controller handlers.
      */
     method: '*',
  
     /**
      * List of controllers to ignore; that is, do not generate footprint routes
      * for them.
      */
     ignore: [ ]
   },
 
  /**
   * Generate conventional Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) routes for
   * each Model.
   */
  models: {
    options: {
 
      /**
       * The max number of objects to return by default. Can be overridden in
       * the request using the ?limit argument.
       */
      defaultLimit: 100,
 
      /**
       * Subscribe to changes on requested models via WebSocket
       * (support provided by trailpack-websocket)
       */
      watch: false,
 
      /**
       * Whether to populate all model associations by default (for "find")
       */
      populate: true
    },
 
    actions: {
      create: true,
      find: true,
      update: true,
      destroy: true,
 
      /**
       * Specify which "association" endpoints to activate.
       */
      createAssociation: true,
      findAssociation: true,
      updateAssociation: true,
      destroyAssociation: true
    }
  },
 
  /**
   * Prefix your footprint route paths
   */
  prefix: '/api/v1'
}

API

api.services.FootprintService

The purpose of FootprintService is to transform and forward queries to the datastore.

create (modelName, values, [options])

param	required?	description	example
modelName	Yes	The name of the model to create (in api.models)	User
values	Yes	An object containing the values of the record to create	{ username: 'admin' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

find (modelName, criteria, [options])

param	required?	description	example
modelName	Yes	The name of the model to search for (in api.models)	User
criteria	Yes	An object containing the query criteria	{ username: 'admin' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

update (modelName, criteria, values, [options])

param	required?	description	example
modelName	Yes	The name of the model to create (in api.models)	User
criteria	Yes	An object containing the query criteria	{ username: 'admin' }
values	Yes	An object containing the values to update	{ username: 'tjwebb' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

destroy (modelName, criteria, options)

param	required?	description	example
modelName	Yes	The name of the model to create (in api.models)	User
criteria	Yes	An object containing the query criteria	{ username: 'admin' }
values	Yes	An object containing the values to update	{ username: 'tjwebb' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

createAssociation (parentModelName, parentId, childAttributeName, values, [options])

param	required?	description	example
parentModelName	Yes	The name of the parent model	User
parentId	Yes	The id of the parent model	1
childAttributeName	Yes	The name of the attribute to create and associate with the parent	roles
values	Yes	An object containing the values to create	{ name: 'adminRole' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

findAssociation (parentModelName, parentId, childAttributeName, criteria, [options])

param	required?	description	example
parentModelName	Yes	The name of the parent model	User
parentId	Yes	The id of the parent model	1
childAttributeName	Yes	The name of the attribute to create and associate with the parent	roles
criteria	Yes	An object containing the criteria to search on, or an id	{ name: 'adminRole' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

updateAssociation (parentModelName, parentId, childAttributeName, criteria, values, [options])

param	required?	description	example
parentModelName	Yes	The name of the parent model	User
parentId	Yes	The id of the parent model	1
childAttributeName	Yes	The name of the attribute to create and associate with the parent	roles
criteria	Yes	An object containing the criteria to search on, or an id	{ name: 'adminRole' }
values	Yes	An object containing the values to update	{ name: 'adminRole' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

destroyAssociation (parentModelName, parentId, childAttributeName, criteria, [options])

param	required?	description	example
parentModelName	Yes	The name of the parent model	User
parentId	Yes	The id of the parent model	1
childAttributeName	Yes	The name of the attribute to destroy and dissociate from the parent	roles
criteria	Yes	An object containing the criteria to search on, or an id	{ name: 'adminRole' }
options	No	Datastore-specific options

api.controllers.FootprintController

The purpose of the FootprintController is to transform and forward requests to the FootprintService.