iridium-timestamps

Iridium Modification Timestamps

This plugin adds the ability to keep track of createdOn and modifiedOn properties on models defined using Iridium, a high performance MongoDB ODM.

Install

npm install iridium-timestamps

Dependencies

You'll need Iridium to use this plugin, but other than that there are no external dependencies.

Example

var iridium = require('iridium'),
    modts = require('iridium-timestamps');
 
iridium.register(modts);
 
module.exports = function(db) {
    var schema = {
 
    };
 
    var options = {
        timestamps: {
            createdProperty: 'createdOn',
            modifiedProperty: 'modifiedOn',
            now: function() { return new Date(); },
            persist: true
        }
    };
};

Options

• createdProperty string|false Determines the name of the property use to store the created timestamp (default "createdOn"). If set to false, disables this property.
• modifiedProperty string|false Determines the name of the property used to store the modified timestamp (default "modifiedOn"). If set to false, disables this property.
• now function Allows you to specify a custom function used to set the current time data for the database (default function() { return new Date(); }).
• persist boolean Used to prevent creation and modification timestamps from being stored in the database (default true). If you set this to false, be aware that "createdOn" will reflect the time at which the instance was retrieved from the database.

Features

• Easy to add created and modified date/time information to your models
• Highly customizable
• Supports existing creating and saving hooks through the use of a robust wrapper function
• Allows values to be stored "in-memory" if usage scenarios don't require them to be stored in the database.