Not an issue - just a thank you and changes I've made

[dani3l]

Hi man! I wanted to thank you for this library. It saved me tons of hours figuring out how to make all data in sync. I ditched Restangular for this amazing lib and made a few changes:

• $dirty and $pristine getters for model
• $modelErrors is now $errors
• _remoteState is now $original
• reset() model method to reset back to original state
• $new() collection method (since create saves the model right away, I needed an option to just create a new model)
• getOrQuery(id) collection method to get a model from collection (and if not exists, try to get it from server and add to collection)
• $get(id) collection method that always returns a promise (wrapper to collection.get(id))
• find() collection method (just a wrapper for collection.where(options, true))
• neverSend property when defining model, basically an array that says "never send those attributes to the server"
• I've changed getAttributes() and added an option to includeRelations or not (false by default, so it won't send it to server when saving since it's an external model, and not test it when check if dirty or reseting to original).
• I've changed the modelErrors to match my errors array from server (error: [attribute: [required, unique]])
• There was a bug with the attr.date(), so I kinda made it work, and I also use moment.js instead of vanilla dates
• changed _. functions to __. becuase I'm also using lodash in my project

and some more minor changes that I can't remember right now. I hope I haven't created memory leaks as I am not a js pro like you, but so far so good.

One thing that I also wanted to mention - it took me time to figure out what is going on in the file, it's a bit of a mess.

Anywho, this is my version, hope it might give you some ideas: https://gist.github.com/dani3l/3ba813373fd5849cff5d

I also created a simple updatedService to update/add/delete models in collection via websockets: ModelCreated: socket data: {id: id} -> client send request to server to get model and add to collection ModelUpdated: socket data {id: id, updatedAt: datetime} -> client check if has last version by comparing dates -> if not, get new version from server ModelDeleted: socket data: {id: id} -> client removed model from collection

I'm using Laravel 5.1 for the backend so this works really smooth.

[VasilioRuzanni]

@dani3l Thanks for the kind words! Actually, I like most of your changes a lot and I'm going to apply some of them.

Currently, I'm working towards complete refactoring, going to do few big changes:

• Splitting the code that actually does the thing (work with models, saving data, etc) and "modelize" code (that is to resolve the model by the name/URL)
• Make the lib ES6-friendly (possibly ES7 and TypeScript too)
• Try making it independent from Angular completely (there will be binding to an Angular module for convenience, of course) as I need it to use with React.js and Aurelia apps too.
• Completely refactor the piece that works with nested models/collections and relations (these will be much more flexible)
• Configurable serializers
• Full test coverage finally

[dani3l]

@VasilioRuzanni I'm anxious to see the end result :) glad I could help.

ES6 or TS would be awesome and much much more organized and make it easier to extend and keep things DRY - so thumbs up on that.

I'd also like to see option to globally extend model & collection if you have methods you often use.

[VasilioRuzanni]

@dani3l Well, thats something to consider indeed. Its easily doable using just regular JavaScript extending base Model since modelizer operates regular objects/arrays but I'll consider providing some simple API for that.

[dani3l]

Hi, just applied another fix, when using query(null, {params: { foo:'bar' }}) params are being ignored. So you can't all({params: ...})

query: function (queryParams, options) {
    options = options || {};
    options.params = __.extend({}, queryParams, options.params); // was: options.params = queryParams || {};

[dani3l]

Another suggestion - reset attributes after save let's say I have a User model and I change this password. to do that I set model.password = '123456' and save problem is, model.password never clears or changes since the server never returns the password.

To solve that I've added a 'resetAfterSave` option to model definition. When save completes, get the attributes to reset and reset them to modelDefinition value (In case you want to set a default value, or undefined if not set)

var promise = this.$request(reqOptions).then(function (resData) {
    .......

    // attributes to reset to original definition after save
    var resetAfterSave = _.union([], _this.resetAfterSave);
    var definition = _this._modelClassMeta.modelDefinition;
    var attrsToReset = {};

    angular.forEach(resetAfterSave, function(attribute) {
        attrsToReset[attribute] = angular.copy(definition[attribute]);
    });

    // Reset original
    .......