Controllers

Controllers are functions that handle requests to specific endpoint paths:

function controllerFunction(request) {
    ... do stuff and return a message ...
}

The first parameter passed in is the HapiRequest object

We define the mapping from endpoint/method to controller function with an JSON object:

const map1 = {
  path: "/endpoint",
  method: "GET", ///
  controller: controllerFunction
}

To make this endpoint available to the server, we need to export an array of these mappings:

export default [ map1, map2, ... ];

Notes/Ideas

• OPTIONS requests?
• Do not instantiate classes to handle requests. This would be a huge memory overhead!
  • From Walmart interview: class methods bad for memory as we don't want to instantiate a class in memory. Seems like that isn't true for static functions though... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes/static
  • I prefer creating classes with static methods for encapsulation for testing and documentation purposes
• DO NOT USE SHARED CLASS PROPERTIES/STATEFUL VARIABLES IN CONTROLLER FUNCTIONS
  • These functions need to be stateless.
• IDEA: Catch any exceptions that don't have response code and log or email indicating unexpected state
• IDEA: generic CRUD endpoints with a flexible storage system for prototypes
  • /{objectType}/create
  • /{objectType}/read/{id}
  • /{objectType}/update/{id}
  • /{objectType}/delete/{id}
  • /{objectType}/all?filters?fields?
  • /{objectType}/search?q