express-restless

Installation

% npm install --save express-restless

Getting Started

var _ = require('underscore');
var express = require('express');
var restless = require('./index');

var data = {
  users: [
    {id: '0', name: 'Jean'},
    {id: '1', name: 'Somchai'}
  ],
  articles: [
    {id: '0', user: '0', title: 'Bonjour'},
    {id: '1', user: '1', title: 'Sawadde'},
    {id: '2', user: '0', title: 'Salut'}
  ]
};

var articles = new restless.Resource({
  get_collection: function (req, res) {
    var rec = _.where(data.articles, {user: req.params.user});

    if (rec.length) {
      res.respond('OK', rec);
    } else {
      res.respond('NotFound');
    }
  }
});

var users = new restless.Resource({
  id: 'user',

  resources: {
    count: true,
    articles: articles
  },

  get_collection: function (req, res) {
    res.respond('OK', data.users);
  },

  get_document: function (req, res) {
    var rec = _.where(data.users, {id: req.params.user});

    if (rec.length) {
      res.respond('OK', rec[0]);
    } else {
      res.respond('NotFound');
    }
  },

  get_count: function (req, res) {
    var rec = _.where(data.articles, {user: req.params.user});

    res.respond('OK', rec.length);
  }
});

var api = express();

api.use(express.urlencoded());
api.use(express.json());

restless.install(api);

articles.install(api, '/articles');
users.install(api, '/users');

var server = express();

server.use('/api', api);

server.listen('8080');