parseless

Develop your parse-server apps using only raw jsons instead of ordinary parse server objects.

parseless on Github

parseless on npmjs

Examples

Getting started

npm install parseless

var Parse = require("node/parse"); 
// You have to import Parse by yourself. 
// If you are writing a cloud code function, for example, you should not import Parse

var Parseless = require("parseless");
var ParselessQuery = Parseless.ParselessQuery;
var ParselessObject = Parseless.ParselessObject;

ParselessObject

parseless works with a kind of object called ParselessObject. It's nothing more than a raw json with parse-server methods like save, destroy, etc.

Create new ParselessObject

var person = new ParselessObject("Person");
person.name = "Faruel";
person.country = "Brazil"

console.log(person);
// Ready to use person.save();

Create new ParselessObject from an existing json

var json = {
    "name": "Faruel", 
    "country": "Brazil"
};
var person = new ParselessObject("Person", json);

console.log(person);
// Ready to use person.save();

Create new ParselessObject from an existing parseObject

var person = new ParselessObject("Person");
person.loadFromParseObject(existingParseObject);

console.log(person);
// Ready to access raw attributes like person.name or person.country

Saving

var person = new ParselessObject("Person");
person.name = "Faruel";
person.country = "Brazil"
person.save(); // returns a promise

Saving an existing entity

// Creates a ParselessObject from an existing parseObject
var person = new ParselessObject("Person");
person.loadFromParseObject(existingParseObject);

person.name = "Changing name!";
person.save(); // returns a promise

Destroying an object

// Creates a ParselessObject from an existing parseObject
var person = new ParselessObject("Person");
person.loadFromParseObject(existingParseObject);

person.destroy(); // returns a promise

ParselessQuery

Use ParselessQuery to retrieve objects from parse-server already in a ParselessObject format.

get(classname, objectId)

var person = await ParselessQuery.get("Person", "jbVaQDHBuM");
console.log(person);
// Ready to access raw attributes like person.name or person.country

find(classname, query)

parse-server query objects

// Ordinary Parse.Query object.
// Also, you can use ParselessQuery.newQuery. Both return an ordinary Parse.Query object
var query = new Parse.Query("Person");
query.equalTo("name", "Faruel");

var people = await ParselessQuery.find("Person", query);
console.log(people);
// Ready to access raw attributes like people[0].name or people[0].country

first(classname, query)

parse-server query objects

var query = new Parse.Query("Person");
query.equalTo("name", "Faruel");

var person = await ParselessQuery.first("Person", query);
console.log(person);
// Ready to access raw attributes like person.name or person.country

Dynamic filters

You can filter your queries using parse-server's own query api. Alternatively, you can use Parseless filter engine.

var filters = [
    {"operation": "equalTo",
     "field": "name",
     "value": "Faruel"}
];
var people = await ParselessQuery.find("Person", null, filters); 
// Passing null to "query" parameter will force Parseless to create a simple query object.

The code above is equivalent to

var query = new Parse.Query("Person");
query.equalTo("name", "Faruel");
var people = await ParselessQuery.find("Person", query, filters);

newQuery(classname)

Returns an ordinary parse-server query object

var query = ParselessQuery.newQuery("Person");
// Same as new Parse.Query("Person")

Users

Use ParselessObject to work with Users

signUp

var user = new ParselessObject("User");
user.username = "faruel";
user.email = "[email protected]";
user.password = "123456";
user.signUp();

logIn

Not implemented yet. Although, you can use Parse.User.logIn();

Current User

Not implemented yet. We recommend using something like this

var currentUser = Parse.User.current();
var user = new ParselessObject("User");
user.loadFromParseObject(currentUser);

requestPasswordReset

There's no reason to wrap this function. See Parse.User.requestPasswordReset