cloudant-database-generator

Generate (or destroy) cloudant databases using a simple on disk file structure.

cloudant-database-generator provides both a module and a cli, thus enabling you to use the generator directly within your app or from the command line.

Install

npm install cloudant-database-generator

Global installation is convenient when using the CLI

npm install cloudant-database-generator -g

Usage

CLI

create dbs:

cloudant-database-generator.js create --url <YOUR-CLOUDANT-URL> --path <RESOURCE_PATH>

destroy dbs:

cloudant-database-generator.js destroy --url <YOUR-CLOUDANT-URL> --path <RESOURCE_PATH>

Note: RESOURCE_PATH may be absolute or relative to the current working directy

Module

const Generator = require('../lib');
const path = require('path');
 
// Create a custom progress visitor
const progressVisitor = e => {
    if (e.level >= 30) console.log(e.msg);
}
 
// Define the cloudant url 
// You may use an alternate initialization object (see initialization section)
const url = '<CLOUDANT-URL>';
 
// Define the directory that contains our db assets e.g. ./db-resources
const assetPath = path.join(process.cwd(), 'db-resources')
 
new Generator(url, progressVisitor)
    .resources(assetPath)
    .create(); // pass false to ignore all docs, but design docs

Data Layout

How it works...

In in the resource directory (RESOURCE_PATH), create a folder for each cloudant db. Each folder's name should be the name of a database to create.

Within each db folder, create a _design folder. The _design folder should contain a list of json files containing each design document.

Also, within each db folder, create a json document to host any documents to add at generation time. This should follow the bulk document format.

See examples/db-resources to review a sample layout

To try it, you can run the example:

• clone this repo
• cd examples
• edit exmaples.js and set <CLOUDANT-URL> to your cloudant url
• node example
• once complete, the on disk structure will be live in your cloudant database

Sample layout

See examples/db-resources for a complete exmaple

resource-folder
  database-1
    _design
    	designdoc1-1.json
    	designdoc1-2.json
    bulkdocs1-1.json
    bulkdocs1-2.json
  database-2
    _design
    	designdoc2-1.json
    	designdoc2-2.json
    bulkdocs2-1.json
  ...

You may use any name for files and folders. Two things to note:

1. the name of the database folder becomes the name is the database
2. the _design is a system name and is used to store design docs
   • If you choose you can add design docs using the bulk format. However, it is not recommended. Design documents are immportant and thus should be managed and versioned independently.

Note that both the _design folder and the all *.json documents are optional. If your db does not require docs to be created at generation time, you don't need to represented them on disk.

For example, below we represent a db with database-1 which is empty and db with name database-2 which contains a single design doc.

resource-folder
  database-1
  database-2
    _design
    	designdoc1.json
  ...

Design doc representation

Its a standard cloudant design doc. e.g. designdoc1-1.json above

{
  "_id": "_design/districts",
  "views": {
    "byId": {
      "map": "function (doc) {  if (doc.type === 'district') emit(doc._id, doc);}"
    }
  },
  "language": "javascript"
}

Doc representation

It's a standard bulk doc e.g. bulkdocs1-1.json above

{
  "docs": [{
  		"name": "Sammy",
  		"type": "person"
  	}, {
  		"name": "June",
  		"type": "person"
  	}
  ]
}
 

Module Initialization

var cloudant = Cloudant({account:me, password:password}); If you would prefer, you can also initialize Cloudant with a URL:

Cloudant Url

const url = "https://MYUSERNAME:[e-mail]"
new Generator(url)

Bluemix

Running on Bluemix? You can initialize Cloudant directly from the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable:

new Generator({
  instanceName: 'foo',
  vcapServices: JSON.parse(process.env.VCAP_SERVICES)
});

Account

const url = "https://MYUSERNAME:[e-mail]"
new Generator({account:me, password:password})

CLI Usage

Currently, the CLI only support a Cloudant URL.

> cloudant-database-generator
  Usage: cloudant-database-generator [command] [options]
 
 
  Commands:
 
    create  
    destroy 
 
  Options:
 
    -h, --help        output usage information
    -V, --version     output the version number
    -u --url <url>    Cloudant database url
    -p --path <path>  Resource path. Default ./cloudant-database
    -b --verbose      Verbose logs
    -d --designonly   Import design docs only. Do no import other docs 

License

Apache 2.0