npm install [email protected]Despite the alpha tag, this is the recommended version for new applications.
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Create Models, sync, drop, bulk create, get, find, remove, count
- Create Model associations, find, check, create and remove
- Define custom validations (several builtin validations, check instance properties before saving)
- Instance singleton (table rows fetched twice are the same object, changes to one change all)
This is a node.js object relational mapping module.
Here is an example on how to use it:
var orm = require("orm");
orm.connect("mysql://username:password@host/database", function (err, db) {
if (err) throw err;
var Person = db.define("person", {
name : String,
surname : String,
age : Number,
male : Boolean,
continent : [ "Europe", "America", "Asia", "Africa", "Australia", "Antartica" ], // ENUM type
photo : Buffer, // BLOB/BINARY
data : Object // JSON encoded
}, {
methods: {
fullName: function () {
return this.name + ' ' + this.surname;
}
},
validations: {
age: orm.validators.rangeNumber(18, undefined, "under-age")
}
});
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }, function (err, people) {
// SQL: "SELECT * FROM person WHERE surname = 'Doe'"
console.log("People found: %d", people.length);
console.log("First person: %s, age %d", people[0].fullName(), people[0].age);
people[0].age = 16;
people[0].save(function (err) {
// err.msg = "under-age";
});
});
});You have a global settings object and one for each connection.
var orm = require("orm");
orm.settings.set("some.deep.value", 123);
orm.connect("....", function (err, db) {
// db.settings is a snapshot of the settings at the moment
// of orm.connect(). changes to it don't affect orm.settings
console.log(db.settings.get("some.deep.value")); // 123
console.log(db.settings.get("some.deep")); // { value: 123 }
});A Model is a structure binded to one or more tables, depending on the associations. The model name is assumed to be the table name. After defining a model you can use it to manipulate the table.
After defining a Model you can get a specific element or find one or more based on some conditions.
To define a model, you use the reference to the database connection and call define. The function will define a Model
and will return it to you. You can get it later by it's id directly from the database connection so you don't actually
need to store a reference to it.
var Person = db.define('person', { // 'person' will be the table in the database as well as the model id
// properties
name : String, // you can use native objects to define the property type
surname : { type: "text", size: 50 } // or you can be specific and define aditional options
}, {
// options (optional)
});If you prefer to have your models defined in separated files, you can define them in a function inside a module and export the function has the entire module. You can have cascading loads.
// your main file (after connecting)
db.load("./models", function (err) {
// loaded!
var Person = db.models.person;
var Pet = db.models.pet;
});
// models.js
module.exports = function (db, cb) {
db.load("./models-extra", function (err) {
if (err) {
return cb(err);
}
db.define('person', {
name : String
});
return cb();
});
};
// models-extra.js
module.exports = function (db, cb) {
db.define('pet', {
name : String
});
return cb();
};If you don't have the tables on the database you have to call the .sync() on every Model. This will just create the
tables necessary for your Model. If you have more than one Model you can call .sync() directly on the database
connection to syncronize all Models.
// db.sync() can also be used
Person.sync(function (err) {
!err && console.log("done!");
});If you want to drop a Model and remove all tables you can use the .drop() method.
Person.drop(function (err) {
!err && console.log("person model no longer exists!");
});To get a specific element from the database use Model.get.
Person.get(123, function (err, person) {
// finds person with id = 123
});Finding one or more elements has more options, each one can be given in no specific parameter order. Only options has to be after conditions (even if it's an empty object).
Person.find({ name: "John", surname: "Doe" }, 3, function (err, people) {
// finds people with name='John' AND surname='Doe' and returns the first 3
});If you need to sort the results because you're limiting or just because you want them sorted do:
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }, "name", function (err, people) {
// finds people with surname='Doe' and returns sorted by name ascending
});
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }, [ "name", "Z" ], function (err, people) {
// finds people with surname='Doe' and returns sorted by name descending
// ('Z' means DESC; 'A' means ASC - default)
});There are more options that you can pass to find something. These options are passed in a second object:
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }, { offset: 2 }, function (err, people) {
// finds people with surname='Doe', skips the first 2 and returns the others
});If you just want to count the number of items that match a condition you can just use .count() instead of finding all
of them and counting. This will actually tell the database server to do a count, the count is not done in javascript.
Person.count({ surname: "Doe" }, function (err, count) {
console.log("We have %d Does in our db", count);
});Similar to .count(), this method just checks if the count is greater than zero or not.
Person.exists({ surname: "Doe" }, function (err, exists) {
console.log("We %s Does in our db", exists ? "have" : "don't have");
});offset: discards the firstNelementslimit: although it can be passed as a direct argument, you can use it here if you preferonly: if you don't want all properties, you can give an array with the list of properties you want
If you prefer another less complicated syntax you can chain .find() by not giving a callback parameter.
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }).limit(3).offset(2).only("name", "surname").run(function (err, people) {
// finds people with surname='Doe', skips first 2 and limits to 3 elements,
// returning only 'name' and 'surname' properties
});You can also chain and just get the count in the end. In this case, offset, limit and order are ignored.
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }).count(function (err, people) {
// people = number of people with surname="Doe"
});Also available is the option to remove the selected items.
Person.find({ surname: "Doe" }).remove(function (err) {
// Does gone..
});Conditions are defined as an object where every key is a property (table column). All keys are supposed
to be concatenated by the logical AND. Values are considered to match exactly, unless you're passing
an Array. In this case it is considered a list to compare the property with.
{ col1: 123, col2: "foo" } // `col1` = 123 AND `col2` = 'foo'
{ col1: [ 1, 3, 5 ] } // `col1` IN (1, 3, 5)If you need other comparisons, you have to use a special object created by some helper functions. Here are a few examples to describe it:
{ col1: orm.eq(123) } // `col1` = 123 (default)
{ col1: orm.ne(123) } // `col1` <> 123
{ col1: orm.gt(123) } // `col1` > 123
{ col1: orm.gte(123) } // `col1` >= 123
{ col1: orm.lt(123) } // `col1` < 123
{ col1: orm.lte(123) } // `col1` <= 123
{ col1: orm.between(123, 456) } // `col1` BETWEEN 123 AND 456An association is a relation between one or more tables.
If you have a relation of 1 to 0 or 1 to 1, you should use hasOne association. This assumes a column in the model that has the id of the other end of the relation.
var Person = db.define('person', {
name : String
});
var Animal = db.define('animal', {
name : String
});
Animal.hasOne("owner", Person); // assumes column 'owner_id' in 'animal' table
// get animal with id = 123
Animal.get(123, function (err, Foo) {
// Foo is the animal model instance, if found
Foo.getOwner(function (err, John) {
// if Foo animal has really an owner, John points to it
});
});For relations of 1 to many you have to use hasMany associations. This assumes another table that has 2 columns, one for each table in the association.
var Person = db.define('person', {
name : String
});
Person.hasMany("friends"); // omitting the other Model, it will assume self model
Person.get(123, function (err, John) {
John.getFriends(function (err, friends) {
// assumes table person_friends with columns person_id and friends_id
});
});The hasMany associations can have additional properties that are assumed to be in the association table.
var Person = db.define('person', {
name : String
});
Person.hasMany("friends", {
rate : Number
});
Person.get(123, function (err, John) {
John.getFriends(function (err, friends) {
// assumes rate is another column on table person_friends
// you can access it by going to friends[N].extra.rate
});
});If you prefer you can activate autoFetch. This way associations are automatically fetched when you get or find instances of a model.
var Person = db.define('person', {
name : String
});
Person.hasMany("friends", {
rate : Number
}, {
autoFetch : true
});
Person.get(123, function (err, John) {
// no need to do John.getFriends() , John already has John.friends Array
});You can also define this option globally instead of a per association basis.
var Person = db.define('person', {
name : String
}, {
autoFetch : true
});
Person.hasMany("friends", {
rate : Number
});
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