Service OData v4 requests from a PostgreSQL data store for Objection.js (knex.js) ORM for Node.js
This is a modified and specific version of odata-v4-pg. As work continues, this library will be moved to something more appropriately named.
OData pattern matching operators [contains, substringof, startswith, endswith] have been changed to resolve to ILIKE
or ~*
from LIKE
:
Operator | PG Operator | Sample |
---|---|---|
contains | ~* (regex) | "status" ~* 'jen' |
substringof | ILIKE | "status" ILIKE '%jen%' |
startswith | ILIKE | "status" ILIKE 'jen%' |
endswith | ILIKE | "status" ILIKE '%jen' |
Contains with regex can perform a little better than ILIKE, your milage may certainly very.
The OData V4 PostgreSQL Connector provides functionality to convert the various types of OData segments into SQL query statements suitable for Objection / knex.js raw() where clause
This library assumes your Nest/Objection/knex are leveraging Postgre snake_case for table names. As such, OData queries for camelCase properties will be converted to snake_case automatically.
In knex.js - Named bindings such as :name are interpreted as values and :name: interpreted as identifiers. Named bindings are processed so long as the value is anything other than undefined.
As such, odata-v4-pg will set placeholders as :0 (index value) for all placeholders.
This helps alleviate issues for createDate eq null
statements, that are absent of any placeholders. With named bindings, this does not present a problem.
- Nest.js & Objection.js (or direct Knex.js) library helper
See the (index.spec.ts)[./src/lib/index.spec.ts] for sanity tests
import { createFilter } from 'odata-v4-pg'
//example request/query filter:
const { raw } = require('objection');
const sDay = moment.utc().startOf('day').toISOString();
const query = { $filter: `(startDate ne null or startDate ge '${moment.utc().startOf('day').toISOString()}')`, $expand: '' };
const filter = createFilter(query.$filter); // map $filter OData to pgSql statement
await Person
.query()
.where(raw(filter.where, filter.parameterObject()));
}
- $filter
- $select
- $skip
- $top
- $orderby
- $expand
Change the version in your package.json or use npm version .
npm version patch
or npm version prerelease
After changing the version number in your package.json, run npm publish
to publish the new version to NPM.
npm install
will install the latest version in the NPM repository.
Complete sequence
npm run build
<commit changes>
npm version prerelease
git push
git push --tags
npm publish
The latest version of odata-v4-server shows a build error as:
node_modules/odata-v4-server/build/lib/processor.d.ts:20:22 - error TS2415: Class 'ODataProcessor' incorrectly extends base class 'Transform'.
Property '_flush' is protected in type 'ODataProcessor' but public in type 'Transform'.
One workaround is TypeScript can build project if pass option tsc --skipLibCheck, so this was added to the build scripts. Ref this github issue