thinkagain

ThinkAgain is a fork of thinky with first-class support for json-schema using ajv for validation.

Install

npm install --save thinkagain

Quick Start

const thinkagain = require('thinkagain')(/* rethinkdbdash options */);

// Create a model - the table is automatically created
let Post = thinkagain.createModel('Post', {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    id: { type: 'string' },
    title: { type: 'string' },
    content: { type: 'string' },
    idAuthor: { type: 'string' }
  },
  required: [ 'title' ]
});

let Author = thinkagain.createModel('Author', {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    id: { type: 'string' },
    name: { type: 'string' }
  },
  required: [ 'name' ]
});

// Join the models
Post.belongsTo(Author, 'author', 'idAuthor', 'id');

// Create a new post
let post = new Post({
  title: 'Hello World!',
  content: 'This is an example.'
});

// Create a new author
var author = new Author({
  name: 'Llama'
});

// Join the documents
post.author = author;

// Save everything
post.saveAll()
  .then(result => console.log(result));

/*
output:
{
  id: '0e4a6f6f-cc0c-4aa5-951a-fcfc480dd05a',
  title: 'Hello World!',
  content: 'This is an example.',
  idAuthor: '3851d8b4-5358-43f2-ba23-f4d481358901',
  author: {
    id: '3851d8b4-5358-43f2-ba23-f4d481358901',
    name: 'Llama'
  }
}
*/

Notes

Presently this is, for the most part, a drop-in replacement for thinky, with a few notable changes:

• Table schemas explicitly use json-schema instead of thinky's home brewed schemas
• Virtual fields are not (yet) implemented
• All validation is asynchronous
• All validation options (enforce_missing, enforce_extra, enforce_type) have been removed in favor of equivalents in either json-schema itself, or options in ajv.
• Node.js 4+ is required

Credits

• Many thanks to neumino for his great work on thinky, without which this module would not be possible.
• Additional thanks to epoberezkin for his fantastic work on ajv.