mongoose-restapi-ui

Mongoose API Generator with UI embedded

This package provides a Rest API for your mongoose models, with the following endpoints:

• GET /model (with querystring for each path, with additional parameters: $any: any colum, $sortBy: sort by a column, $sort: asc or desc and $page: number page)
• GET /model/:_id
• GET /model/:name
• POST /model
• PUT /model/:_id
• PUT /model/:name
• DELETE /model/:_id
• DELETE /model/:name

Usage

Use our router extended from express with our custom methods:

import { ApiRouter } from 'mongoose-restapi-ui'
const customer = model('Customer', new Schema({
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    comment: { type: String }
}))
router.setModel('/customer', customer)
app.use('/', router)

In order to use on a different path, mark it on our ApiRouter

...
router.setGlobalRoute('/api/config')
...
router.setModel(...
router.setModel(...
app.use('/api/config', router)

Publish UI:

app.get('/api/ui', router.publishUiTree())

(Note that publishUI method don't need the global path, can be published on other site and accepts an optional parameter express.Router that will be switched if there are provided. If not are provided there are all models and UI on the same router.)

(NEW) Use permissions and roles

The library needs to pass your mongoose connection, and a middleware in order to get the user. Here an example:

Typescript:

import * as express from 'express'
import { ApiRouter } from 'mongoose-restapi-ui'
import { model, Schema, connect } from 'mongoose'
 
connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/dummyDatabase')
const customer = model('Customer', new Schema({
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    comment: { type: String }
}))
const app = express()
const router = ApiRouter()
router.use((req, res, next)=>{
    req.user = // your mongoose user document....
    next()
})
router.setModel('/customer', customer)
router.setConnection(mongoose) // or object returned from mongoose.connect
app.use('/', router)
app.listen(3000)

Javascript:

const express = require('express')
const { model, Schema, connect } = require('mongoose')
const { ApiRouter } = require('mongoose-restapi-ui')
 
connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/dummyDatabase')
 
const customer = model('Customer', new Schema({
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    comment: { type: String }
}))
 
const app = express()
const router = ApiRouter()
router.use((req, res, next)=>{
    req.user = // your mongoose user document....
    next()
})
router.setModel('/customer', customer)
router.setConnection(mongoose) // or object returned from mongoose.connect
app.use('/', router)
app.listen(3000)

UI integration

Use react component mongoose-restapi-ui-component.

API

Default object is an extended express Router, please initialize as express Router. (Default mongodb api is v3.x)

import ApiRouter from 'mongoose-restapi-ui'
const router = ApiRouter()

If your database is MongoDB 4.X, this library can use his new API ($any can filter numbers, _id, dates... as a contains)

import ApiRouter from 'mongoose-restapi-ui'
const router = ApiRouter({isMongo4: true})

This object has the same properties as router, with other ones:

Name	Type	Description
setGlobalRoute(path)	path: string	witch for nexts models that their api starts in path path.
setModel(route, model [, options])	route: string model: mongoose.Model options: ServeOptions returns EventEmitter	Set model model on path route from the router. Generates GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods. Returns an EventEmitter that emits the following events: add: Event that emits the new doc added to database. update: Event that emits the updated doc. Emits an object with keys: old: old document, new: document updated delete: Event that emits the deleted doc.
ServeOptions	{ name: string getFilterByPermissions: FilterByPermissions hasAddPermission: RequestPermission hasEditPermission: RequestPermission hasUpdatePermission: RequestPermission hasDeletePermission: RequestPermission }	Switch path name as the name label for UI purpose as complex objects.
FilterByPermissions(req, callback)	req: express.Request callback: FilterByPermissionsCallback	Function in order to get a pre-filter query (query), for a custom permissions setup.
FilterByPermissionsCallback(err, query)	err: Error query: Object	Callback called in order to get a pre-filter query (query), for a custom permissions setup.
IUser	must be extend: { roles: ObjectId } & mongoose.Document	User used in order to set permissions and roles.
RequestPermission(user, doc, callback)	user: IUser doc: mongoose.Document callback: RequestPermissionCallback	called on interaction with an endpoint rest (post, put, patch or delete)
RequestPermissionCallback(error, hasPermission, reason?)	error: Error hasPermission: Boolean reason?: string	Will be called in order to custom permissions. Will be called second callback parameter with true or false as result of permission check. If there are provided the third parameter of callback and false are provided as result, will be sended it as custom statusText with status 403.

Next features

• API rest self documented
• Permissions and roles inheritance