Axe API v1.1 is out!

v1.1 comes with two important changes that you can start to use.

Let's discover it more!

Disabling auto-route creation for has-many relations

You can create a simple has-many relationship by the following example.

class User extends Model {
  tasks() {
    return this.hasMany("Task", "id", "user_id");
  }
}

class Task extends Model {
  user() {
    return this.belongsTo("User", "user_id", "id");
  }
}

By this definition, Axe API creates the following routing structure automatically.

• /api/v1/users
• /api/v1/users/:id/tasks

On the other hand, you can fetch the related data by using the with parameters.

GET /api/v1/users/1?with=tasks

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Foo bar",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "user_id": 1,
      "name": "My task"
    }
  ]
}

Before the disabling auto-route creation feature, you were helpless if you wanted to use the with query but not use the nested URLs. With the new version, you can create a relationship but not nested routes like the following example:

class User extends Model {
  tasks() {
    return this.hasMany("Task", "id", "user_id", { autoRouting: false });
  }
}

class Task extends Model {
  user() {
    return this.belongsTo("User", "user_id", "id");
  }
}

Supporting robus-validator library

Axe API uses the validatorjs library under the hood. But the library authors weren't interested in the library enough. That's why we created a new form validation library, robust-validator.

By default, Axe API will keep using the validatorjs. But you can change it with the robust-validator if you want. Just you need to change the configuration file, and install the robust-validator.

app/config.ts

import path from "path";
import { IApplicationConfig } from "axe-api";

const config: IApplicationConfig = {
  // ...
  validator: "validatorjs"
  validator: "robust-validator"
  // ...
};

export default config;