mongoose-edgeapi

Powerful REST and Web Sockets API for MongoDB collections using Mongoose and Express.

Web Sockets Services Available

GET

api.collection-name.save

• Expects: Object passed to event listener with document to save
• Emits: api.collection-name.save.response or api.collection-name.save.error

api.collection-name.find

• Expects: Object passed to event listener with collection query, may include proprietary fields limit, page, sort and projection. If finding by ObjectId you can use id or _id property.
• Emits: api.collection-name.find.response or api.collection-name.find.error

api.collection-name.update

• Expects: Object passed to event listener with id and document updates to make, expects id or _id property in object with valid document ObjectId. For bulk updates a _query parameter can be supplied with the query specifics to match documents against.
• Emits: api.collection-name.update.response or api.collection-name.update.error

api.collection-name.delete

• Expects: Object passed to event listener with query for delete to make. If deleting by ObjectId you can use id or _id property.
• Emits: api.collection-name.remove.delete or api.collection-name.remove.delete

REST Services Available

GET

/api/collection-name/

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Returns all documents from the collection
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does support query parameters to influence the document result set.

/api/collection-name/:projection

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Returns all documents from the collection, fields returned are limited to the comma separated values included in the projection value
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does support query parameters to influence the document result set.

/api/collection-name/:id

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Returns specific document from the collection based on it's _id
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does not support query parameters.

/api/collection-name/:id/:projection

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Returns specific document from the collection based on it's _id, fields returned are limited to the comma separated values included in the projection value
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does not support query parameters.

POST

/api/collection-name/

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Adds a new document to the collection.
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does support some parameters to influence the document creation, they will be merged with the values POSTed to the request body with POSTed values taking a higher precedence.

/api/collection-name/:id

• Valid Route and Method: No
• Purpose: Not supported, error message returned.

/api/collection-name/:id/:projection

• Valid Route and Method: No
• Purpose: Not supported, error message returned.

PUT

/api/collection-name/

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Bulk update of documents matching query formed from GET parameters
• Supports Query Parameters: Yes, these are used in forming the query to matching the documents to update. The PUT body will be the document updates.

/api/collection-name/:id

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Updates a new document by _id within the collection.
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does support some parameters to influence the document update, they will be merged with the body of POST, with POST values taking a higher precedence.

/api/collection-name/:id/:projection

• Valid Route and Method: No
• Purpose: Not supported, error message returned.

DELETE

/api/collection-name/

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Deletes all documents within the collection matching query, be careful you can delete all documents if no query is supplied!
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does support some parameters to influence the document deleting, they will be merged with the body of the DELETE request with DELETE values taking a higher precedence.

/api/collection-name/:id

• Valid Route and Method: Yes
• Purpose: Deletes a specific document from the collection based on it's _id
• Supports Query Parameters: This route does not support query parameters.

/api/collection-name/:id/:projection

• Valid Route and Method: No
• Purpose: Not supported, error message returned.