Overview

Sukeru is an Object Document Mapper for Riak.

Usage

First we need to connect to the database (localhost by default):

sukeru.connect(function() {
    // Inside this we can define our models and do our queries...    
});

Model definition

Let's define a basic User model:

var User = sukeru.model('User', function() {
    this.string('name');
    this.string('email');
    this.string('password'); 
});

Data types

The currently available data types are:

• string
• boolean
• date

Accessing a Model

var User = sukeru.model('User');

Methods

Now that the User model is created, we can create a new user and than save it to the database:

var john = new User();
john.name = "John";
john.email = "[email protected]";
john.password = "my secret password";
john.save(function(err) {
    if(err)
        return console.log(err);
    console.log("The user has been successfully created", john);
    console.log("It should have a new generated id:", john.id);
});

Let's find a user by id:

User.findById("aNIdToFind", function(err, user) {
    if(err)
        return console.log(err);
    console.log("A user was found", user);
});

To delete this user:

john.remove(function(err) {
   console.log("John should not exist anymore in the database");
});

To delete a user by its id:

User.delete("aNIdToDelete", function(err) {
   console.log("This user should not exist anymore in the database");
});

Validation

You can specify validation rules for each field this way:

var User = sukeru.model('User', function() {
    this.string('name').required();
    this.string('email').required()
                        .email();
    this.string('password').required()
                           .minLength(6)
                           .maxLength(16); 
    this.date('birthday').required()
                           .after(new Date(2012, 01, 01))
                           .before(new Date(2015, 01, 01));
});

You can also pass a default value as a second argument of the property type:

this.date('birthday', new Date());
this.string('name', 'John');

Defining methods and statics

var User = sukeru.model('User', function() {
    this.string('name_s');
    this.string('email');
    this.string('password'); 
    
    this.methods.comparePassword = function(password) {
        return (this.password === password);
    };
    this.statics.findByName = function(name, callback) {
        this.search({
            q: "name_s:"+name
        }, cb);
    };
});

// Example usage

// Static function
User.findByName("John", function(err, users) {
    // Do something here with your users
});

// Instance level methods
var user = new User();
user.email = "test";
user.password = "secret";
user.comparePassword("falsepassword"); // should be false
user.comparePassword("secret"); // should be true

Search

Riak has a built-in Solr search engine.

Solr needs a schema to define each fields name and types. By default, Riak provides us a default schema. For strings to be indexed we need to add the suffixe: "_s"

Let's say we want to be able to search for the name of a user. We can modify the model definition like this:

var User = sukeru.model('User', function() {
    this.string('name_s')
    this.string('email');
    this.string('password'); 
});

To search for an object we can run a Solr query:

User.search({
    q: "name_s:John",
    rows: 10
}, function(err, users) {
    console.log("Here we have our results", users)
});

Note : For now you are only able to use the default search schema provided by Riak's Team for Solr (thus the suffix "_s")