sundae

Rtf restful framework for node

Intro

Sundae is a light weight api framework based on express, but more intesting than express.

A quick brief of router

app = sundae express()

# You can definitely declare the path to route
# Router support all methods exported from `methods` module (get/post/put/delete/options/etc...)
# The route pattarn is something like `app[method] path, to: {controller}#{action}`
app.get '/', to: 'home#index'

# Post method
app.post '/', to: 'home#create'

# Resource route
# Then you also got the `resource` function to do the above things more restfully
app.resource 'home', only: ['create', 'read']

# Router options
# Router support some options like
# `only`: Only use actions listed in the only option
# `except`: Omit the actions in except option
# `to`: Alias to `ctrl#action`
# `ctrl`: Controller name
# `action`: Action name
# The example below shows mapping a group of `user` restful apis to the admin controller
app.resource 'user', ctrl: 'admin'

A quick brief of controller

app = sundae express()

app.controller 'home', ->

  # Mixin permission functions
  @mixin require './mixins/permission'

  # Request should contain these params
  @ensure 'user-agent', only: 'index'

  # These filters will execute before controller.index action
  @before 'checkAgent'

  # We'll filter the useless key of the callback data
  @select '-useless'

  # This assembler function is declared in home mixer
  @after 'changeName'

  # This is a controller action
  # You can call this function through router
  @action 'index', (req, res, callback) ->
    callback null,
      welcome: 'Hello World'
      "user-agent": req.get('user-agent')
      useless: 'useless message'

  # This is a filter function looks like controller actions
  # You can call this function from router
  # But most time you shouldn't do this
  @action 'checkAgent', (req, res, callback) ->
    userAgent = req.get('user-agent')
    # If the first param of callback is not null
    # controller.index will not be called
    return callback(new Error('GOD! WHY ARE YOU STILL USING IE?')) if userAgent.match /MSIE/
    callback()

Router options

• only only keep the specific actions
• except without the specific actions

Decorator options

• only only the specific actions will apply hooks
• except all actions will apply hooks without the except actions
• parallel hooks will be parallel executed, the default mode is series (execute one by one)

TODO

Changelog

0.6.1

• Add req.getParams function to get the original param given by user

0.6.0

• Support stand alone application build with sundae
• Set app.request/response to an constructor when using sundae without express
• Add has function on request

0.5.10

• Add mask decorator;

0.5.8

• Add least decorator.

0.5.0

• Apply sundae on the application level.
• New router, controller, action patterns.

0.4.0

• remove express in dependencies, you should require express by yourself in application
• change the initialize functions, for more infomation, check the 'examples' directory
• remove cli mode

0.3.6

• use some options in the resource directive, e.g. ctrl, action ...

0.3.3

• fix expand of req.headers, req.cookies etc.

0.3.1

• remove wrap of actions, every action will receive three arguments: req, res, callback

0.3.0

• hooks do not apply on each action now, they are only bind to actions emit by router
• embed err1st package

0.2.7

• ignore lib directory in development mode

0.2.5

• clone _before/_after actions when extends from parent class

0.2.2 ~ 0.2.4

• give up using transfer option, it's not a good idea, find another way

0.2.1

• check invalid params in router
• error support for 404 and 500 response

0.2.0

• change the statement of decorators

0.1.5

• change router to singleton, add router _stack

0.1.4

• fix post decorator bug

0.1.3

• add assembler, post decorators
• fix mixer loader

0.1.2

• auto load mixers

0.1.1

• add more comments in demo controllers
• fix request reset params bug
• fix cli init crash

0.1.0

• new beginning of sundae framework