adding updateModelCustomQuery

lib/directAPI.js

@@ -146,6 +146,25 @@ BaseAPI.prototype.updateModel = function (req, res, id) {
   this.updateModelCustom(res, req.body, id);
 };
 
+/**
+ * as before but query instead of the default one
+ * @param req
+ * @param res
+ * @param query
+ */
+BaseAPI.prototype.updateModelCustomQuery = function (res, body, query) {
+  if (body === undefined) {
+    return this.returnError(res, 'missing updated ' + this.APIName);
+  }
+
+  var that = this;
+  this.Model.update(query, body, function (err, data) {
+    if (res) {
+      return that._checkStatus(err, res, data);
+    }
+  });
+};
+
 /**
  * returns a (generic) error to the user
  * @param res

test/common.js

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ global.expect = require("chai").expect;
 
 global.chai.use(require("sinon-chai"));
 
-global.createRes = function (callback) {return {status: function () {return this; }, json: callback };};
+global.createRes = function (callback) {return {status: function () {return this; }, json: callback }; };

test/directAPI_spec.js

@@ -141,6 +141,23 @@ describe("base_api", function () {
     }, timestamp);
   });
 
+  it("should update an element correctly with query", function (done) {
+    var timestamp = new Date(),
+      res = createRes(function (numRowAffected) {
+        expect(numRowAffected).to.eql(1);
+        var res = createRes(function(data) {
+          expect(data[0]['name']).to.eql('changed');
+        });
+        base.getFromModel({session: {}}, res);
+        done();
+      });
+    createNewElement(function(data){
+      // use updateModel instead of updateModelCustom to cover more lines in the test
+      base.updateModelCustomQuery(res,
+        { name: "changed" }, {_id: data._id.toString()});
+    }, timestamp);
+  });
+
   it("should not update an element correctly", function (done) {
     var res = createRes(function (data) {
         expect(data.error).to.eql('missing updated model');
@@ -149,6 +166,7 @@ describe("base_api", function () {
       base.updateModel({ body: undefined }, res, 'id');
   });
 
+
   it("should handle correctly an error with checkstatus", function (done) {
     base._checkStatus('commonErr', createRes(function (data){
       expect(data.error).to.eql('commonErr');