develop_models_03_testBlueprints.md

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Models : Test their REST interface

In SailsJS, if you define a Model and a Controller with the same Model name, then Sails will automatically setup a RESTful interface for your model using blueprints.

Our appdev tools: appdev resource ... and appdev table2model ... create both a server side model instance, and a corresponding controller for that model. When sails loads, your new model should have a RESTful interface running.

For this example lets assume that

• you created a new plugin named opstool-emailNotification : appdev opstoolplugin opstool-emailNotification
• you created a new model named ENRecipient : appdev resource opstools/EmailNotification ENRecipient title:string recipients:text

Now start sails:

# in your [sailsRoot]
$ sails lift

Open up a web browser, and put this in for the url: http://localhost:1337/opstool-emailNotification/enrecipient

NOTE: the default format for accessing your blueprint models is : get /:modelIdentity or get /:modelIdentity/:id

However, in our appdev plugin format, we need to prefix the model with the plugin name: get /:pluginName/:modelIdentity

so in this case, our plugin was opstool-emailNotification so our url is: /opstool-emailNotification/:modelIdentity

You should see the following response in your browser:

[
  {
    "title": "X-Men",
    "recipients": "profX@email.com, cyclopse@email.com",
    "id": 1,
    "createdAt": "2015-03-27T06:43:11.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2015-03-27T06:43:11.000Z"
  },
  {
    "title": "Avengers",
    "recipients": "capt@email.com, hulk@email.com",
    "id": 2,
    "createdAt": "2015-03-27T06:43:11.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2015-03-27T06:43:11.000Z"
  }
]

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