tandy

Auto-generated, RESTful, CRUDdy route handlers

Lead Maintainer - Matt Boutet

Note

This plugin is intended to work with hapi v19+ and its Objection ORM plugin, schwifty.

What it does

Tandy registers route handlers based upon the method and path of your route. It turns them into RESTful API endpoints that automatically interact with models defined through Schwifty. By default Tandy will infer which models to use from the request path. The route handler is based on one of eight Tandys:

• POST is used for create, add (create a record then add it to a relation), and for update.
• PATCH may also be used for update.
• PUT is used for add in order to add an existing record to a relation.
• GET is used for find, findOne, and populate (get related records or check an association).
• DELETE is used for destroy and remove (remove a record from a relation).

Tandy Patterns

Suppose users are associated with comments via an Objection relation. The user model associates comments in an relation named comments. Here are some examples as to how the plugin will deduce which of the eight Tandys to use, based upon route method and path definition.

• GET /users ↦ find

  Returns an array of users with an HTTP 200 OK response.

• GET /users/count ↦ find with /count

  Returns the integer number of users matched with an HTTP 200 OK response.

• GET /users/{id} ↦ findById

  Returns user id with an HTTP 200 OK response. Responds with an HTTP 404 Not Found response if the user is not found.

• GET /users/{id}/comments ↦ findById

  Returns an array of comments associated with user id. Returns HTTP 200 OK if that user is found. Returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response if that user is not found.

• GET /users/{id}/comments/count ↦ populate with /count

  Returns the integer number of comments associated with user id. Returns HTTP 200 OK if that user is found. Returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response if that user is not found.

• GET /users/{id}/comments/{childId} ↦ populate

  Returns HTTP 204 No Content if comment childId is associated with user id. Returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response if that user is not found or that comment is not associated with the user.

• POST /users ↦ create

  Creates a new user using the request payload and returns it with an HTTP 201 Created response.

• POST /users/{id}/comments ↦ add

  Creates a new comment using the request payload and associates that comment with user id. Returns that comment with an HTTP 201 Created response. If that user is not found, returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response.

• PUT /users/{id}/comments/{childId} ↦ add

  Associates comment childId with user id. Returns an HTTP 204 No Content response on success. If the user or comment are not found, returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response.

• DELETE /users/{id} ↦ destroy

  Destroys user id. Returns an HTTP 204 No Content response on success. If the user doesn't exist, returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response.

• DELETE /users/{id}/comment/{childId} ↦ remove

  Removes association between user id and comment childId. Returns an HTTP 204 No Content response on success. If the user or comment doesn't exist, returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response.

• PATCH /users/{id} or POST /user/{id} ↦ update

  Updates user id using the request payload (which will typically only contain the attributes to update) and responds with the updated user. Returns an HTTP 200 OK response on success. If the user doesn't exist, returns an HTTP 404 Not Found response.

Options

Options can be passed to the plugin when registered or defined directly on the route handler. Those defined on the route handler override those passed to the plugin on a per-route basis.

Acting as a User

These options allow you to act on behalf of the authenticated user. Typically the user info is taken directly off the credentials object without checking the request.auth.isAuthenticated flag. This allows you to use authentication modes however you wish.

• actAsUser (boolean, defaults false). Applies to findOne, find, create, update, destroy, add, remove, and populate.

  This must be set to true for the following options in the section to take effect. The acting user is defined by hapi authentication credentials and the userIdProperty option.

• userIdProperty (string, defaults 'id'). Applies to findOne, find, create, update, destroy, add, remove, and populate.

  When actAsUser is true this option takes effect. It defines a path into Request.auth.credentials to determine the acting user's id. For example, if the credentials object equals {user: {info: {id: 17}}} then 'user.info.id' would grab user id 17. See Hoek.reach, which is used to convert the string to a deep property in the hapi credentials object.

• userUrlPrefix (string, defaults '/user'). Applies to findOne, update, destroy, add, remove, and populate.

  When actAsUser is true this option takes effect. This option works in tandem with userModel. When a route path begins with userUrlPrefix (after any other inert prefix has been stripped via the prefix option), the URL is transformed to begin /:userModel/:actingUserId before matching for a Tandy; it essentially sets the primary record to the acting user.

• userModel (string, defaults 'users'). Applies to findOne, update, destroy, add, remove, and populate.

  When actAsUser is true this option takes effect. This option works in tandem with userUrlPrefix. When a route path begins with userUrlPrefix (after any other inert prefix has been stripped via the prefix option), the URL is transformed to begin /:userModel/:actingUserId before matching for a Tandy; it essentially sets the primary record to the acting user. E.g., by default when actAsUser is enabled, route path PUT /user/following/10 would internally be considered as PUT /users/17/following/10, which corresponds to the add Tandy applied to the authenticated user.

Other Options

• prefix (string). Applies to findOne, find, create, update, destroy, add, remove, and populate.

  Allows one to specify a prefix to the route path that will be ignored when determining which Tandy to apply.

• model (string). Applies to findOne, find, create, update, destroy, add, remove, and populate.

  Name of the model's Objection identity. If not provided as an option, it is deduced from the route path.

  Ex: /user/1/files/3 has the model user.

• associationAttr (string). Applies to add, remove, and populate

  Name of the association's Objection attribute. If not provided as an option, it is deduced from the route path.

  Ex: /user/1/files/3 has the association attribute files (i.e., the Objection model user has an attribute, files containing records in a one-to-many relationship).

• limit (positive integer). Applies to find and populate.

  Set default limit of records returned in a list. If not provided, this defaults to 30.

• skip (positive integer). Applies to find and populate.

  Sets default number of records to skip in a list (overridden by skip query parameter). Defaults to 0.

• sort (string). Applies to find and populate.

  Sets default sorting criteria (i.e. createdDate ASC) (overridden by sort query parameter). Defaults to no sort applied.

• where (string). Applies to find.

  Extracts only those records that fulfill a specified condition. (i.e. createdDate = '2019-08-19')(overridden by where query parameter).

Usage

Here's an (over)simplified example.

// Assume `server` is a hapi server with the Tandy plugin registered.
// Models with names 'Zoo' and 'Treat' exist via Schwifty.
// Zoos and Treats are in a many-to-many correspondence with each other.
// Check-out the test/ folder for further details.
 
server.route([
    { // findOne
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/zoo/{id}',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // find
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/treat',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // destroy
        method: 'DELETE',
        path: '/treat/{id}',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // create
        method: 'POST',
        path: '/zoo',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // update
        method: ['PATCH', 'POST'],
        path: '/treat/{id}',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // remove
        method: 'DELETE',
        path: '/zoo/{id}/treats/{childId}',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // create then add
        method: 'POST',
        path: '/zoo/{id}/treats',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // add
        method: 'PUT',
        path: '/zoo/{id}/treats/{childId}',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    },
    { // populate
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/zoo/{id}/treats/{childId?}',
        handler: {
            tandy: options
        }
    }
]);

Extras

• based on bedwetter, which offers similar functionality for Waterline ORM.