Data Source Views

Data Sources can optionally define a set of views for their data. These are essentially filtered data set (similar to SQL views) which allow you to define a dynamic filter on which data should be filtered for the current user.

Example use cases:

• A data source contains bookmarks for all users, but you want each user to only get their own bookmarks by defining a dynamic userBookmarks view.
• A data source contains a directory of people and you want to dynamically split the data source by a column (or more) value, e.g. UserType, so that you can have multiple views, one for each type.

Defining a view

A view must be defined in the data source definition JSON, which can be edited via the App Data section of Fliplet Studio. Such definition can optionally contain an array called views with a list of views to define. Each view must define a name and the filter. You can also specify whether the view must be bundled to the app (defaults to false).

• name: (required) the name of view.
• filter: (required) an object which is passed through the Sift.js query engine to filter the data source. The value of each attribute can be a literal value or a string to read from a target property in the user’s connected session, e.g. session.foo, which most likely reads from a data source entry depending on how your app’s login is set up.
• bundle (optional) a boolean defaulting to false defining whether the view should be bundled for offline use in your apps.

{
  "views": [
    {
      "name": "userBookmarks",
      "bundle": true,
      "filter": {
        "IsBookmark": "Yes",
        "UserEmail": "session.EmailAddress"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Querying data for a specific view

Both DataSources JS APIs and REST APIs allow you to request data for a specific view by defining its name through the view property. You can also provide an array of views if you prefer to extract more at once.

Fliplet.DataSources.connect(123).then(function (connection) {
  // Only extract bookmarks for the current user
  return connection.find({
    view: 'userBookmarks'
  })
}).then(console.log)