Coral

Node JS framework to dynamically create REST application with express and mongoose Models

Creating Routes

To create routes with mongoose Models initialize the coral with the express application and use the route method by passing path and mongoose models as configuration

var app = express();
var coral = new Coral(app);

var ProductSchema = new Schema({
	name: String
});
var Product = mongoose.model('Product', ProductSchema);

coral.route({
	path: '/product',
	model:	Product
});

Above coral route method will generate the following routes

/product							-	get
/product/:id						-	get
/product?skip=10&limit=10	  		-	get (limited records)
/product?sort=name&order=asc&page=1	-	get	(pagination with sorting)
/product							-	post
/product/:id						-	put
/product/:id						-	delete

Following get parameters are supported to get sorted data and pagination

skip, limit, order, sort and page

If your records are huge and don't want to expose all the records findAll can be set to false so that only limited records will be returned depending on passed options in the skip, limit or page by default per page 20 records are returned this can be change through perPage option

coral.route({
	path: '/product',
	model:	Product,
	findAll: false,
	perPage: 10
});

In some cases routes specific to some methods are needed like only want to provide user read, create and update functionality without delete this can be done by specifying methods option

coral.route({
	path: '/product',
	model:	Product,
	methods: ['get', 'post', 'put']
});

Above coral route method will only generate the following routes without delete

/product							-	get
/product/:id						-	get
/product?skip=10&limit=10	  		-	get (limited records)
/product?sort=name&order=asc&page=1	-	get	(pagination with sorting)
/product							-	post
/product/:id						-	put

Following options are supported to create specific methods routes

get, post, put and del