💂‍♂️ Hemera-mongo-store package

This is a plugin to use Mongodb with Hemera.

Install

npm i hemera-mongo-store --save

Start Mongodb with Docker

docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -p 28017:28017 -e AUTH=no tutum/mongodb

Example

const hemera = new Hemera(nats)
hemera.use(require('hemera-joi'))
hemera.use(require('hemera-mongo-store'), {
  mongo: {
    url: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/test'
  }
})

Plugin decorators

mongodb.client
mongodb.db

Tests

npm run test

Access multiple databases

If you decide to use multiple MongoDB databases for your services you can use the useDbAsTopicSuffix option. The database name e.g test is appended to the topic topic:"mongo-store.test". This ensures that your database is able to run under a different hemera service.

You can find a full example here

API

See Store Interface.

Extended JSON

Because the underlying NATS transport is simply passing JSON stringified messages between actions, certain native (or extended) MongoDB types will be lost. For example, sending the following action will result in the date and objectId fields being saved as strings, not as their corresponding Date and ObjectId types.

hemera.ready(() => {
  const ObjectID = hemera.mongodb.client.ObjectID
  hemera.act(
    {
      topic: 'mongo-store',
      cmd: 'create',
      collection: 'collTest',
      data: {
        name: 'peter',
        date: new Date(),
        objectId: new ObjectID()
      }
    },
    (err, resp) => {
      // The `date` and `objectId` values will be saved as strings in the database!
    }
  )
})

In order to "fix" this issue, the mongo-store supports the use of MongoDB Extended JSON. For example:

hemera.ready(() => {
  const ObjectID = hemera.mongodb.client.ObjectID
  hemera.act(
    {
      topic: 'mongo-store',
      cmd: 'create',
      collection: 'collTest',
      data: {
        name: 'peter',
        date: { $date: new Date() },
        objectId: { $oid: new ObjectID() }
      }
    },
    (err, resp) => {
      // The data will now be persisted with the correct `Date` and `ObjectId` types.
    }
  )
})

To make things easiser, you can also use the mongodb-extended-json package and its serialization capabilities (which the store uses under the hood), to make the objects "less messy." For example:

const EJSON = require('mongodb-extended-json')

hemera.ready(() => {
  const ObjectID = hemera.mongodb.client.ObjectID
  hemera.act(
    {
      topic: 'mongo-store',
      cmd: 'create',
      collection: 'collTest',
      data: EJSON.serialize({
        name: 'peter',
        date: new Date(),
        objectId: new ObjectID()
      })
    },
    (err, resp) => {
      // The data will now be persisted with the correct `Date` and `ObjectId` types.
    }
  )
})

Be default, responses returned from the mongo-store (via find or other actions) will not return the document(s) in MongoDB extended JSON format. This was done for two reasons:

We wanted to avoid "forcing" users into dealing with { date: { $date: "2017-05..." } } response formats (instead, you can simply re-init the date by running new Date(resp.date) when/if you need to)
We didn't want to enforce a hard dependency on the mongodb-extended-json package in your application code

That being said, if you want responses to be converted into extended format, you can enable the serializeResult plugin option. Also, to "auto-magically" convert all extended types, you can utilize mongodb-extended-json's deserialization capabilities. Example:

const EJSON = require('mongodb-extended-json')

hemera.use(hemeraMongo, {
  serializeResult: true,
  mongo: {
    url: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/test'
  }
})

hemera.ready(() => {
  hemera.act(
    {
      topic: 'mongo-store',
      cmd: 'findById',
      collection: 'collTest',
      id: 'some-id-value'
    },
    function(err, resp) {
      const doc = EJSON.deserialize(resp)
      // Now `doc.date` and `doc.objectId` will be deserialized into
      // `Date` and `ObjectId` types, respectively.
    }
  )
})

Finally, extended JSON can also be used in queries. This is useful when you need to query an ObjectId value that isn't the native _id field, or for Regular Expressions. For example:

const EJSON = require('mongodb-extended-json')

hemera.ready(() => {
  hemera.act(
    {
      topic: 'mongo-store',
      cmd: 'find',
      collection: 'collTest',
      query: EJSON.serialize({
        name: new RegExp(/^ja/, 'i')
      })
      // Without the EJSON library...
      // query: {
      //   name: { $regex: '^ja', $options: 'i' }
      // }
    },
    function(err, resp) {}
  )
})

Options

Fine-tuning of the calls to the MongoDB Node.js driver can be performed via options.store. The mapping from Store API to MongoDB API is the following:

Example:

hemera.use(hemeraMongo, {
  mongo: { url: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/test' },
  store: {
    updateById: { returnOriginal: false }
  }
})

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