Added pseudo props to Records so that in addition to `user.set('admin…

…', true)` you can also do `user.admin = true` for both setters and getters.

docs/change-log.md

@@ -3,5 +3,8 @@ outline: deep
 ---
 # Change Log
 
+## 2024-03-15
+* Added pseudo props to Records so that in addition to `user.set('admin', true)` you can also do `user.admin = true` for both setters and getters.
+
 ## 2024-03-12
 * Fixed a security bug where passwords created via the CLI were stored incorrectly.

docs/subsystems/ving-record.md

@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ const record = users.findOrDie('xxx');
 
 Once you have a record you can use the following methods to manipulate it.
 
+
 ### Reading Data
 
 #### describe
@@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ Formats everything known about a record into an object that is easily serializab
 const description = await record.describe(params)
 ```
 
-#### Result
+##### Result
 ```js
 {
     props : { id: 'xxx', ... }, // database properties
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ const description = await record.describe(params)
 }
 ```
 
-#### Parameters
+##### Parameters
 
  - **currentUser** - Either a `User` record or a `Session` object can be used to determine what data should be included in the description based upon user privileges.
  - **include** - An object to modify the output.
@@ -373,6 +374,15 @@ Calls `setPostedProps()` and `update()` in a single method call.
 await record.updateAndVerify({foo: 'bar', one: 1}, currentUserOrSession);
 ```
 
+### Pseudo Properties
+In addition to all the methods below, every [schema](ving-schema) prop except those of type `virtual` will also get pseudo props added to the record. The means that in addition to using `get('username')` and `set('username', 'adufresne')` methods you can use the pseudo props as getters and setters like this:
+
+```js
+const username = user.username;
+user.username = 'adufresne';
+```
+
+
 ### Privileges
 
 #### canEdit

ving/record/VingRecord.mjs

@@ -76,6 +76,21 @@ export class VingRecord {
         this.#inserted = inserted;
         this.db = db;
         this.table = table;
+        const schema = findVingSchema(getTableName(table));
+        const pseudoProps = {}
+        for (const prop of schema.props) {
+            if (prop.type == 'virtual')
+                continue;
+            pseudoProps[prop.name] = {
+                get() {
+                    return this.get(prop.name);
+                },
+                set(value) {
+                    return this.set(prop.name, value);
+                },
+            }
+        }
+        Object.defineProperties(this, pseudoProps);
     }
 
     /**

ving/tests/Users.vingrecord.test.mjs

@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ describe('Users', async () => {
         expect(warden.isOwner(captain)).toBe(false);
     });
     test("can update ving record", async () => {
-        warden.set('admin', true);
-        expect(warden.get('admin')).toBe(true);
+        warden.admin = true;
+        expect(warden.admin).toBe(true);
         await warden.update();
     });
     test("can refetch ving record", async () => {