Merge pull request #55 from leojpod/slighly-more-advance-filtering

Slighly more advance filtering

Author: leojpod

.travis.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 language: node_js
 node_js:
-    - "6"
+    - "12"
 before_script:
     - npm install -g mocha
     - cd ./tests/dummy && npm install && cd ../../

lib/api/blueprints/find.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
  * Module dependencies
  */
-var actionUtil = require('./_util/actionUtil');
+var actionUtil = require("./_util/actionUtil");
 /**
  * Find Records
  *
@@ -13,21 +13,34 @@ var actionUtil = require('./_util/actionUtil');
  */
 
 module.exports = function findRecords(req, res) {
-
   // Look up the model
-  var Model = actionUtil.parseModel(req);
+  let Model = actionUtil.parseModel(req);
 
   // Lookup for records that match the specified criteria
 
-  var queryParams = JsonApiService.deserialize(req.query.filter) || null;
-
-  var query = Model.find(queryParams);
+  let queryParams = JsonApiService.deserialize(req.query.filter) || null;
+
+  if (queryParams) {
+    // This allows to more advance filtering things like '?filter[date]={"<":"YYYY-MM-DD"}'
+    let params = Object.entries(queryParams).map(([key, value]) => {
+      try {
+        let val = JSON.parse(value);
+        return [key, val];
+      } catch (err) {
+        return [key, value];
+      }
+    });
+    queryParams = params.reduce(
+      (qp, [key, value]) => ({ ...qp, [key]: value }),
+      {}
+    );
+  }
+  let query = Model.find(queryParams);
 
   // populate as required
   actionUtil.populateEach(req, query);
 
   query.exec((err, matchingRecords) => {
-
     if (err) return res.serverError(err);
 
     return res.ok(matchingRecords);