Expose-data NPM

ExposeJs

The goal of the project is to provide a flexible and configurable mechanism for building simple services that can be exposed over HTTP.

The first exporter implemented is based on mongoose models. This takes your schemas and front-ends them with HTTP, allowing you full CRUD capability over your entities, to include managing associations.

Installation

$ npm install expose-data --save

Usage

1. create a config file under the name `apiconfig.js`

This file must contains :

Database url.
Array of models to expose.
Each model has a name, a schema and list of possible actions.

Example of apiconfig.js

module.exports = { 
        dbUrl: "mongodb://user:pass@localhost:27017/library",
        models: [{
            name: "book",
            scheme: {
                title: { type: String },
                author: { type: String },
                genre: { type: String }
            },
            ops: ["findAll", "findById", "insert"]
        }]
};

2. create the app

The file that launch the app must be in the root folder of the project.

The app is easly created through a single line:

require('expose-data').listen(3000)

3. access it

The entry point for findAll is /theModelName/ for example localhost:3000/book/ returns the folowing response

[
  {
    "_id": "58af6174734d1d48176ad224",
    "title": "title",
    "author": "author",
    "genre": "genre",
    "links": {
      "self": "http://localhost:3000/book/58af6174734d1d48176ad224"
    }
  }
]