dsds

This is a Dead Simple Data Store for Node.js. It's an in-memory data store that automatically persists to file (unless you tell it not to). dsds does not care about speed, security, ACIDity and what not. It's meant for those experiments and quick scripts where you just want to store some data in the easiest and quickest way possible.

It uses synchronous functions just so that you don't have to write a callback.

Installation

npm install dsds --save

and then

var dsds = require('dsds');

API

store = dsds(name [, options])

Creates a new data store with the name name. If you call dsds() with the same name again, you will get the cached object so you can access the same store from different parts of your code.

Possible options:

• idProperty: String. This is the name of the property where the ID will be stored in. Default: "id";
• persistence: Boolean. Whether the data should be persisted to file. Default: true
• autoPersist: Boolean: Whether the data should be automatically persisted on every write operation. Default: true. You can manually call store.persist()
• filePath: String. Path to the file where the data should be persisted. Default: './' + name + '.json'. The directories will be automatically created if necessary.

var store = dsds('fighters', {
    filePath: './data/fighters.json'
});

store.get(id [, property])

Returns the object with the ID id.

If a property argument is passed, the corresponding property value of the record is returned.

var ryu = store.get('ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f');
var ryuHeight = store.get('ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f', 'height');

store.set(id [, property], value)

If a property argument is passed this sets the property property of the record with ID id and returns the new property value.

If the property argument is omitted, this will behave exactly like store.replace()

var newHeight = store.set('ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f', 'height', 190);

store.all()

Returns an array containing all records.

var fighters = store.all();

store.insert(data)

Inserts data in to the store. And resturns the new object. A unique ID will be added to the property defined in options.idProperty (default: "id").

var ryu = store.insert({
    name:    'Ryu',
    gender:  'male',
    country: 'Japan',
    height:  175
});
 
console.log(ryu.id);

ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f

store.update(id, data)

Updates a record and returns the updated record. data will be merged in to the existing record and leave the other properties intact.

var id = 'ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f';
var ryu = store.update(id, {
    height: 187,
    eyeColor: 'brown'
});

store.replace(id, data)

Replaces a record and returns the new record. Leaves the ID intact.

var id = 'ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f';
var evilRyu = store.replace(id, {
    name:    'Evil Ryu',
    gender:  'male',
    country: 'Japan',
    height:  175,
    rival:   'Sagat'
});

store.remove(id)

Deletes the record with ID id.

var id = 'ce4c05cd-00fc-410d-9f17-209b543e232f';
store.remove(id);

store.find(callback)

Returns an array of all records that pass the test in callback. It uses lodash's filter function internally.

var females = store.find(function (fighter) {
    return fighter.gender == 'female';
});

store.findOne(callback)

Same as store.find but returns only the first record. Uses lodash's find function internally.

store.persist()

Writes all records to disc. You don't have to call this manually unless you have set options.autoPersist to false.

store.persist();

store.load()

Loads the data from options.filePath. You don't have to call this manually.

store.load();

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Max Kueng (http://maxkueng.com/)

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