Angular Bridge

Create, read, update, delete MongoDB collections via AngularJS.

It uses :

• Mongoose for accessing to Mongodb
• Express for the routing
• AngularJS (with the $resource method)

Btw don't forget to include angular-resource.js

Sample code

Backend code

In you db.js backend :

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/pizza');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId;

var PizzaSchema = new Schema({
    author : {
	    type : String,
    },
    color : {
	    type : String
    },
    size : {
            type : Number
    },  
    password : {   // You can hide it from read and write ! (cf after)
            type : String 
    }
});

// You can optionally add a method to schema.methods that is executed based
// on the type of HTTP request with the names "query", "get", "put", "post", and "delete"
// The callback receives the affected entities as it's parameter.
PizzaSchema.methods.query = function(entities) {
  console.log("Queried:");
  console.log(entities);
};

PizzaSchema.methods.get = function(entity) {
  console.log("Got:")
  console.log(entity);
};

PizzaSchema.methods.put = function(entity) {
  console.log("Put:")
  console.log(entity);
};

PizzaSchema.methods.post = function(entity) {
  console.log("Posted:")
  console.log(entity);
};

PizzaSchema.methods.delete = function(entity) {
  console.log("Deleted:")
  console.log(entity);
};

exports.Pizza = mongoose.model('pizzas', PizzaSchema);

In your backend app.js :

var db = require('./db.js');

// Mount all the resource on /api prefix
var angularBridge = new (require('angular-bridge'))(app, {
    urlPrefix : '/api/'
});

// With express you can password protect a url prefix :
app.use('/api', express.basicAuth('admin', 'my_password'));

// Expose the pizzas collection via REST
angularBridge.addResource('pizzas', db.Pizza);

// Hiding fields
angularBridge.addResource('toppings', db.Toppings, { hide : ['_id', 'password']});

// Read-only fields (sent to client, but will not write to database)
angularBridge.addResource('jaboodies', db.Jaboody, { readOnly: ['_id', 'cantChangeMe']});

// Force a mongoose query (to restrict access to certain items only)
angularBridge.addResource('projects', db.Project, { query: '{_user: String(req.user._id)}'});
// Note:  This can be passed as an object, but you can also pass it as a string
//        in cases where the object you're looking for is only accessible within
//        the HTTP-verb callback (in this example, 'req' will give an error if it
//        is not passed as a string)

// Force a particular value regardless of what the client sends
angularBridge.addResource('clients', db.Client, { force: {_user: 'req.user._id' }});

// Enable population for the given fields
angularBridge.addResource('projects', db.Project, { populate: "_ref1" });

BE CAREFUL! force AND query BOTH USE eval()

Front end code

That's all for the backend, now in Angular :

var HomeCtrl = function($scope, $routeParams, $location, $resource) {
    var PizzaDb = $resource('/api/pizzas/:id', { id: '@_id' }); 
   
   // Magic, you are ready now !
   
   var new_pizza = new PizzaDb({
     author : 'agoodpizayolo',
     color : 'blue',
     size : 999
   });
   
   new_pizza.$save(function(save_the_pizza) {
      console.log('Success pizza - ', save_the_pizza);
   });
   
   PizzaDb.get({id : '50b40dd6ed3f055a27000001'}, function(pizza) {
    	pizza.color = 'UV';
    	pizza.$save();
    });
};

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Alexandre Strzelewicz [email protected]

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