mbroadst / thinky-rest

Create REST resources and controllers with thinky and Express or Restify

thinky-rest

Create REST resources and controllers with thinky and express or restify

Getting Started

var thinky = require('thinky')(),
    rest = require('thinky-rest'),
    http = require('http');

// Define your models
var User = test.db.createModel('users', {
  username: thinky.type.string().required(),
  birthday: thinky.type.type.date().required()
});

// Initialize server
var server, app;
if (process.env.USE_RESTIFY) {
  var restify = require('restify');

  app = server = restify.createServer()
  app.use(restify.queryParser());
  app.use(restify.bodyParser());
} else {
  var express = require('express'),
      bodyParser = require('body-parser');

  app = express();
  app.use(bodyParser.json());
  app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
  server = http.createServer(app);
}

// Initialize thinky-rest
rest.initialize({
  app: app,
  thinky: thinky
});

// Create a REST resource
var userResource = rest.resource({
  model: User,
  endpoints: ['/users', '/users/:id']
});

// Start the server and access your rest routes
server.listen(function() {
  var host = server.address().address,
      port = server.address().port;

  console.log('listening at http://%s:%s', host, port);
});

thinky-rest's Issues

Error when querying by secondary index and sorting

I'm using thinky-rest 0.1.3 and I've discovered if you have a query that uses the secondary index, as well as sorting, RethinkDB throws an error:
Expected type TABLE but found SELECTION: SELECTION ON table(foo)

An example request that causes this error would be:
http://localhost:3000/api/foo?bar=123&sort=baz
(where bar is the secondary index)

I'm new to RethinkDB but I think this is due to the _applyOrderBy function being executed (and appending orderBy to the query) before the secondary index based criteria is added to the query.

Apart from this, thinky-rest is great! I might have a go forking and creating a PR myself if I get some time.