Comments

An abstraction layer for MongoDB that provides some commenting functionality.

Usage

new Comments(options)

Creates a new Comments object. This means, a connection to MongoDB is set up.

• options is an object that defines some DB connection parameters.

  The default options are as follows:

  {
    host: 'localhost',      // - hostname of the server where mongodb is
                            //   running
    port: 27017,            // - port that is used by mongodb
    name: 'website',        // - name of the mongodb database
    collection: 'comments'  // - name of the collection that contains the
                            //   comments
  }
  

comments.saveComment(res, comment, saved)

Adds a new or updates a comment in the collection depending on if there already is a comment with the same _id property. If comment does not define an _id property, a new comment is created.

• res is a string defining the resource the comment belongs to.
• comment is an object that defines a comment. It is stored directly into the collection. Any prior parsing is up to you. comment.res should be defined for the later use of comments.getComments.
• saved is a callback function that takes three arguments (error, comment, action). error is an Error object, when an error occurred, otherwise it is null. comment is the saved comment object. action is a string. It can either be 'create', 'update' or null, if an error occured.

comments.getComments(res, [[properties,] options,] received)

Gives access to the comments of a resource.

• res is a string defining the resource that contains the comments that you are looking for. If res is null, all comments in the collection will be found.

• properties [optional] is an object that defines, which properties of the comments shall be returned.

  The default properties are as follows:

  {
    _id: true,
    author: true,
    website: true,
    created: true,
    message: true
  }
  

• options [optional] is an object that defines additional options according to section "Query options" like sorting or paging.

  The default options are as follows:

  {
    sort: "created" // sort results by date of creation in ascending order
  }
  

• received is a callback function that takes two arguments (error, results). error is an Error object, when an error occurred, otherwise it is null. results is a cursor to the result set of the query. Look at section "Cursors" for more information on how to use them.

comments.count(res, counted)

Counts the comments of a resource or the complete collection.

• res is a string defining the resource that contains the comments that you are looking for. If res is null, all comments in the collection will be counted.
• counted is a callback function that takes two arguments (error, count). error is an Error object, when an error occurred, otherwise it is null. count is the number of comments for the resource or in the collection.

comments.close(done)

Closes the connection to the database.

• done is a callback function.

Facilities for a JSON-REST API

comments.getCommentsJSON(res, resp, received)

Writes a JSON object including the requested comments to a HTTP ServerResponse object.

• res is a string defining the resource that contains the comments that you are looking for. If res is null, all comments in the collection will be returned.
• resp is a http.ServerResponse object. (Please refer to the version of Node.js that you are using.)
• received is a callback function that takes one argument (error). error is an Error object, when an error occurred, otherwise it is null.

comments.parseCommentPOST(res, req, parsed)

Reads a url encoded string from a HTTP ServerRequest object.

• res is a string defining the resource where the comment should be saved.
• req is a http.ServerRequest object. (Please refer to the version of Node.js that you are using.)
• parsed is a callback function that takes two arguments (error, comment). error is an Error object, when an error occurred, otherwise it is null. comment is the parsed comment object.

comments.setCommentJSON(res, comment, resp, saved)

Saves or updates a comment for the defined resource and writes the corresponding HTTP status code to the given ServerResponse object.

• res is a string defining the resource where the comment should be saved.
• comment is an object that defines a comment.
• resp is a http.ServerResponse object. (Please refer to the version of Node.js that you are using.)
• saved is a callback function that takes one argument (error). error is an Error object, when an error occurred, otherwise it is null.

Installation

You need a running MongoDB before you can use Comments. On Debian

apt-get install mongodb

Then install Comments with npm.

npm install -g Comments

Examples

For examples, look at the tests.

Bugs and Issues

If you encounter any bugs or issues, feel free to open an issue at github.

License

Copyright © 2011-2012 Paul Vorbach

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