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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition Learn to create robust RESTful web services with Node.js, MongoDB, and Express.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623322
Length 178 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Valentin Bojinov Valentin Bojinov
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. REST – What You Did Not Know FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Node.js 3. Building a Typical Web API 4. Using NoSQL Databases 5. Restful API Design Guidelines 6. Implementing a Full Fledged RESTful Service 7. Preparing a RESTful API for Production 8. Consuming a RESTful API 9. Securing the Application 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a user-defined model around a Mongoose model

After seeing how a model works, it is time to create a user-defined module that wraps all CRUD operations for the catalog. Since we intend to use that module in a RESTful web application, it seems logical to leave the schema definition and the model creation outside the module and have them provided as arguments of each module function. The same schema definition is used in the unit tests, ensuring stability of the module. Now let's add an implementation for each CRUD function, starting with a remove() function. It looks up an item based on its id and deletes it from the database, if it exists:

exports.remove = function (request, response) {
console.log('Deleting item with id: ' + request.body.itemId);
CatalogItem.findOne({itemId: request.params.itemId}, function(error, data) {
if (error) {
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