Mongoose Utilities

The mongoose utilities is a fork a Mongoose Troop

A collection of handy plugins for mongoose

Overview

• Usage
• Plugins
  • acl (simple access control list)
  • basicAuth (simple authentication and registration)
  • timestamp (automatic created and modified timestamps)
  • slugify (url-friendly copies of string properties)
  • keywords (search-friendly array of stemmed words from string properties)
  • pubsub (message passing)
  • pagination (query pagination)
  • rest (http or rpc controller)
  • merge (merge a document into another)
  • removeDefaults (remove default values from a document)
  • getdbrefs (find all document DBRefs)
• Changelog
• Authors and contributors
• License

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Usage

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , Schema = mongoose.Schema;

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/your-database');

var FooSchema = new Schema({
  name: {type: String}
});


FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.PluginName, options);

var Foo= mongoose.model('foo', FooSchema); // Category

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Plugins

Important! A list of plugins that have changed since the troop and have new interface.

• pagination changed
• obfuscate removed

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acl

Simple access control list

Methods

instance.addAccess(key)

Add key access to a Model instance

instance.removeAccess(key)

Remove key access to a Model instance

instance.access(key [, callback])

Return or callback a boolean

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basicAuth

Simple authentication plugin

Options

• loginPath schema path for username/login (optional, default username)
• hashPath schema path to hashed password (optional, default hash)
• workFactor bcrypt work factor (optional, default 10)

Methods

instance.authenticate(password, callback)

Authenticate a mongoose document

instance.setPassword(password, callback)

Set the password for a mongoose document

model.authenticate(username, password, callback)

Authenticate a user on the model level

model.register(attributes, callback)

Create a new user with given attributes

Example

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , db = mongoose.connect()
  , UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema()

UserSchema.plugin(mUtilities.basicAuth)

var User = mongoose.model('user', UserSchema)

User.register({
  username: 'foo'
, password: 'bar'
}, function() {
  // ...
})

User.authenticate('foo', 'bar', function(err, doc) {
  // ...
})

User.findOne({ username: 'foo'}, function(err, doc) {
  if (err || !doc) return
  doc.setPassword('foobar', function(err) {
    if (err) return
    doc.authenticate('foobar', function() {
      // ...
    })
  })
})

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timestamp

Adds a created and modified property to the schema, updating the timestamps as expected.

Options

• createdPath schema path for created timestamp (optional, default created)
• modifiedPath schema path for modified timestamp (optional, default modified)
• useVirtual use a virtual path for created timestamp based on ObjectId (optional, default true)

Example

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , FooSchema = new mongoose.Schema()

FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.timestamp)

Note

Using the virtual created timestamp you will lose the ability to run queries against it, as well as a loss in precision, as it will return a timestamp in seconds.

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slugify

Turn a string based field into a url friendly slug

Converts this is a title to this-is-a-title

Options

• target schema path for slug destination (optional, default slug)
• source schema path for slug content (optional, default title)
• maxLength maximum slug length (optional, default 50)
• spaceChar space replacement character (optional, default -)
• invalidChar invalid character replacement (optional, default ``)
• override override slug field on source path change (optional, default false)

Methods

instance.slugify(string)

model.slugify(string)

Example

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , FooSchema = new mongoose.Schema()

FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.slugify)

var instance = new FooSchema({title: 'well hello there!'})

instance.save(function(err, doc) {
  console.log(doc.slug) // `well-hello-there`
})

Note

This plugin does not currently support nested paths

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keywords

Keyword extraction/creation plugin, can be used as a simple substitute of a full search indexing package.

Turns fooed bars into ['foo', 'bar']

Options

• target schema path for keyword destination (optional, default keywords)
• source schema path for extracting keywords, can be an array to specify multiple paths
• minLength minimum string length to be used as a keyword (optional, default 2)
• invalidChar replacement char for invalid chars (optional, default ``)
• naturalize specifies whether to use a porter stemmer for keywords (optional, default false)

Methods

instance.extractKeywords(str)

model.extractKeywords(str)

Manually calculate a keyword array with a given string

Example

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , db = mongoose.connect()

var FooSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  text: String
})

FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.keywords, {
  source: 'text'
})

var fooModel = mongoose.model('foo', FooSchema)
  , instance = new FooSchema({ text: 'i am the batman' })

console.log(instance.keywords) // `['am', 'the', 'batman']`

fooModel.find({ 
  keywords: { $in: fooModel.extractKeywords('batman') }
}, function(docs) {
  // ...
})

Note

This plugin does not currently support nested paths

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publish

Plugin to publish/subscribe from a model or instance level, also enabling a model to automatically publish changes on init, save, and remove methods. Both models and instances can be published/subscribed to.

Options

• auto attach middleware based on the hook for init, save, and remove methods (optional, default false)
• hook middleware method to attach auto middleware to (optional, default post)
• seperator redis channel seperator (optional, default :)
• prefix redis channel prefix, can be a string or function (optional, default ``)
• channel channel for schema to publish/subscribe to, can be a string or function (optional, default schema.constructor.modelName)
• publish redis instance to be used for publishing
• subscribe redis instance to be used for subscribing

Methods

instance.publish(doc, options, callback)

instance.subscribe(callback)

instance.unsubscribe(callback)

instance.getChannel()

instance.on(event, callback)

model.subscribe(callback)

model.unsubscribe(callback)

model.getChannel()

model.on(event, callback)

Example

var redis = require('redis')
  , publish = redis.createClient()
  , subscribe = redis.createClient()
  , mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , db = mongoose.connect()

var FooSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String
})

FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.publish, {
  publish: redis
, subscribe: subscribe
})

var FooModel = mongoose.model('foo', FooSchema)

FooModel.subscribe() // channel: 'foos'

FooModel.findOne({name: 'bar'}, function(err, instance) {
  // ...
})

Once you have a mongoose instance you can now publish it, by default, a model or instance will publish to it's own channel

instance.publish(null, {
  method: 'save'
}, function(err, count) {
  // publishes to 'foos:4d6e5acebcd1b3fac9000007'
})

You can also publish other documents to other models or instances

FooModel.publish(instance, function(err, count) {
  // publishes to 'foos'
})

or, if you have enabled hooks

instance.save()

You can also subscribe on the instance level

instance.subscribe() // channel: 'foos:4d6e5acebcd1b3fac9000007'

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pagination

Simple query pagination routines. Important! The API changed! - not compatible with the mongoose-troop

Options

• defaultQuery Query to use if not specified (optional, default {})
• defaultLimit Results per page to use if not specified (optional, default 10)
• defaultFields Fields to use if not specified (optional, default {})
• defaultSort Sort to use if not specified (optional, default {})
• defaultPopulate Population to use if not specified (optional, default {})
• remember Remember the last options used for query, limit, sort, population and fields (optional, default false)

Methods

model.paginate(options, callback)

model.firstPage(options, callback)

model.lastPage(options, callback)

Example

Assume that we have a collection with 55 records in it for the following example, where the count field is incremented by 1 for each record, starting at 1.

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , mUtilities = require('mongoose-utilities')
  , db = mongoose.connect()

var FooSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String
, count: Number
, category: { type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'cat' }
})

FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.pagination)

// OR with default settings
FooSchema.plugin(mUtilities.pagination, {
  defaultPopulate: 'category', 
  defaultSort: { name: 1 }
})

var FooModel = mongoose.model('foo', FooSchema)

var CatSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String
})

var CatModel = mongoose.model('cat', CatSchema)

FooModel.paginate({ page: 1 }, function (err, provider) {

  // provider.docs.length = 10
  // provider.count = 55
  // provider.pages = 6
  // provider.page = 1
  // provider.limit = 10;
})

Which, since using the default options, can also be written as:

FooModel.firstPage(function (err, provider) {
  // ...
})

Or, if you wanted the last page:

FooModel.lastPage(function (err, provider) {
  // provider.docs.length = 5
  // provider.page = 6
})

A more verbose pagination call

FooModel.paginate({
  page: 2
, query: { count: { $gt: 25 } }
, limit: 25
, fields: { field1: 1, field2: 1 }
, sort: { field1: 1}
, populate: 'field2'
}, function(err, provider) {
  
  // provider.docs.length = 5
  // provider.count = 30
  // provider.pages = 2
  // provider.page = 2

})

Note

If using the remember option, the plugin will cache all of the options you give it each time you pass them in (except for the page), this can be handy if the params are going to be the same each time, if they are different you should not use this option.

Also, when on the last page, the plugin will return the trailing number of documents, in the example above the lastPage method returned 5 documents, it will never return a full set specified by the limit when this is the case.

Mongoose documentations

• Mongoose Sort - sorting records
• Population - There are no joins in MongoDB but sometimes we still want references to documents in other collections.

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rest

Options

• pagination options to send to the pagination plugin above (optional, see plugin defaults above)

Create a REST-ful controller for your models for use with flatiron/director, express, dnode or socket.io

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merge

Merge JSON into your object more easily.

instance.merge({title:'A new title', description:'A new description'}).save()

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getdbrefs

Get the dbrefs from a schema

instance.getdbrefs(function (refs) {
  // ...
})

Note

This plugin does not currently support nested paths

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removeDefaults

Remove all of the default values from your model instance.

instance.removeDefaults().save()

Note

This plugin does not currently support nested paths

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Changelog

Jun 20, 2015 - version: 0.1.1

• bumped bcrypt version

Aug 12, 2013 - version: 0.1.0

• Mongoose Troop forked
• removed directory dependency
• removed obfuscate plugin
• Changed pagination API
• Changed rest API
• updated tests
• updated README.md

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Authors and contributors

• Thomas Blobaum: https://github.com/tblobaum
• Janos Meszaros: https://github.com/janez89
• Profulla Sadangi: https://github.com/butu5
• Beau Sorensen: https://github.com/sorensen

This project is a work in progress and subject to API changes, please feel free to contribute

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License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Tom Blobaum tblobaum@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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