birchtree

BirchTree

BirchTree is mainly a helper library for knexjs. It takes an instance of knex and adds two helper functions: grow and nest. These functions make it easy to get nested objects as results when running join queries.

BirchTree is also a repository library built on knexjs. It provides a base Repo class and Model interface that can be extended and implemented to create a basic model system.

Install

npm install --save birchtree

TypeScript

BirchTree is written in typescript and should just work. You can import the type for birchtree like this

import { BirchTree } from 'birchtree'

Helper Functions

Basic Usage

import birchtree from 'birchtree';
import * as Knex from 'knex';

const knex = Knex({
    client: 'mysql',
    debug: false,
    connection,
    pool
});

const birch = birchtree(knex);

const songs = 'albums:songs';
const author = 'albums:songs:author';
const select = await birch.grow('artists', 'albums', `songs AS ${songs}`, `authors AS ${author}`);
const results = await birch('users')
    .select(select)
    .leftJoin('albums', 'albums.artist_id', 'artists.id')
    .leftJoin(`songs AS ${songs}`, `${songs}.album_id`, `albums.id`)
    .leftJoin(`authors as ${author}`, `${author}.id`, `${songs}.author_id`)
    .where('artists.id', '=', 1);
const nestedResults = birch.nest(results);

Results will look like

[{
    id: 1,
    name: 'The Beatles',
    albums: [{
        id: 1,
        name: 'Rubber Soul',
        songs: [{
            id: 1,
            name: 'Drive My Car',
            author: {
                id: 2,
                name: 'Paul McCartney'
            }
        }, {
            id: 2,
            name: 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)',
            author: {
                id: 1,
                name: 'John Lennon'
            }
        }]
    }, {
        id: 2,
        name: 'Revolver',
        songs: [{
            id: 3,
            name: 'Taxman',
            author: {
                id: 3,
                name: 'George Harrison'
            }
        }, {
            id: 4,
            name: 'Eleanor Rigby',
            author: {
                id: 2,
                name: 'Paul McCartney'
            }
        }]
    }]
}]

Important

There are some important things to note from the example.

• In order for things more than 1 layer deep to nest they must be aliased in a nested way. The delimiter is :
• If a name or alias is plural than the results will form an array correctly
• If the name or alias is singular than it will not form a collection
• You will only get 1 result if you use a singular alias for something you want multiple results for

grow

Asynchronous: Takes any number of table names with or without aliases as arguments and returns an array for knex's select function that will make sure columns don't get overwritten. It will select every column in each table given.

nest

Takes the results from a select query and nests them using treeize

Repository System

Basic Setup

import { default as birchtree, BirchTree, Repo, Model } from 'birchtree';

// let's just pretend we set knex up
const birch = birchtree(knex);

// let's make a user repo
const userRepo = new UserRepo(birch);

class User implements Model {
    private id: number;
    private email: string;
    private username: string;
    
    constructor(props) {
        Object.assign(this, props);
    }
    
    toJSON() {
        return {
            id: this.id,
            email: this.email,
            username: this.username
        }
    }
}

class UserRepo extends Repo<User> {
    constructor(birch) {
        super(User, birch);
    }
    
    async findDuplicate(user: User, trx: BirchTree.Transaction) {
        return this.createQuery(trx)
            .where({ email: user.email })
            .orWhere({ username: user.username });
    }
}

Create

const user = new User({
    email: '[e-mail]',
    username: 'fry'
});
await userRepo.create(user);

Update

user.username = 'bender';
await userRepo.update(user);

Save

user.email = '[e-mail]';
await userRepo.save(user);

const leela = new User({
    email: '[e-mail]',
    username: 'leela'
});
await userRepo.save(leela);

findOneById

const bender = await userRepo.findOneById(user.id);

findByIds

const benderAndLeela = await userRepo.findByIds([bender.id, leela.id]);

exterminate

await userRepo.exterminate(bender);

findOne

const leelaAgain = await userRepo.findOne({ email: '[e-mail]' });

find

const leelaAsAnArray = await userRepo.find({ email: '[e-mail]' });

createQuery

This returns a birchtree/knex querybuilder.

const results = await userRepo.createQuery().where('email', '=', '[e-mail]');

Transactions

birch.transaction(trx => {
    const bender = await userRepo.findOne({ username: 'bender' }, trx);
    bender.username = 'coilette';
    await userRepo.save(bender, trx);
    
    const leela = await userRepo.createQuery(trx).where({ username: 'leela' });
    leela.username = 'Turanga';
    await userRepo.save(leela, trx);
    return [ bender, leela ];
})
.then(results => console.log(results))
.catch(err => console.error(err));