mongoose-revisionist

Creates Mongo's oplog-like records for Mongoose operations.

Installation

Use npm: npm install mongoose-revisionist

Operation

Each creation, update or removal will create a Revisionist record with appropriate versioning information. This allows for easy tracking of changes to records through time as well as providing an auditing mechanism.

The Mongoose plugin adds a handful of fields to the schema if they do not exist already:

• modified - Date - when the document was last modified.
• modifiedBy - String - who/what last modified the document.
• created - Date - when the document was created.
• createdBy - String - who/what created the document.
• revision - Number - the revision of the document, autoincremented every save.

The plugin will also add a collection of revisions that are close to (but not quite exactly) oplog records:

• ts - Date - the timestamp of the operation, defaults to Date.now.
• v - Number - the Mongoose-internal version of the document.
• op - String - the operation type.
• o - Mixed - depends on operation:
  • create - full account of what is inserted in _$set, ID inclusive.
  • update - full account of what is changed in _$set for changes and additions, _$unset for removals, ID exclusive.
  • remove - ID of the document only.
• o2 - Mixed - depends on operation:
  • create - omitted as it is not needed
  • update - ID of the document being updated
  • remove - omitted as it is not needed
• revision - what revision of the document the change was for.
• referenceId - the ID of the document the change is for.

Usage

Use as you would any Mongoose plugin:

var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
    Revisionist = require('mongoose-revisionist'),
    schema = new mongoose.Schema({ ... });
    schema.plugin(Revisionist.plugin);

If more help is needed, have a look in tests/models.

Options:

The Revisionist plugin also takes an options hash using the plugin syntax:

schema.plugin(Revisionist.plugin, options);

• modelName - the model name of where revisions get saved. Defaults to Revisionist.

Instance Methods

• versions - gets the valid versions for a given Mongoose document. Calls back with an array of integers.
• getVersion - gets a specific version of a given Mongoose document. The first argument of the call can be a version number, a date (to get by date), "current" to get the current version, or not specified, also to get the current version.

Static Methods

• getVersion - gets a specific version of a given Mongoose document. The first argument must be the document ID to retrieve. The rest is exactly the same as the intance method: The second argument of the call can be a version number, a date (to get by date), "current" to get the current version, or not specified, also to get the current version.

Changelog

0.1.1

• fixes #1 - poor naming conventions led to the wrong name being used in index.