pineapple is a framework written by joseph werle for MoovAtom that provides an easy and extendable interface for developing restful apis. It was designed with an mvc pattern in mind and the idea that everything can be extended. Its main goal is to be lightweight and take care of the heavy lifting you would need to do when implementing a restful api from scratch.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Documentation
• Creating a new application
• Starting a Server
• Starting a Console
• Application Structure
• Issues
• Community
• License

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      $ [sudo] npm install -g pineapple
    

$ pineapple gen myapp
  [pineapple] => Sweet! I've created a new Pineapple application here => /Users/werle/repos/myapp
  

Starting a pineapple server

pineapple server

Starting a pineapple server of a pineapple application is as simple as executing pineapple server from the directory of the pineapple application.

shell

$ pineapple [server|s]
Requiring app module /config/environment
Requiring app module /config/development
Requiring app module /config/application
Requiring app module /config/routes.js
Requiring app module /app/controllers
Requiring app module /app/models
[app] => Found the Paplfile file. => /Users/werle/repos/myapp/Paplfile
[server] => Listening on port 4000

node

You could utilize the pineapple module and create your own server without using a skeleton pineapple application. The contents of the app.js file below whose only dependency is pineapple demonstrates the process of using pineapple in node with minimal requirements. Consider the following app structure:

├── app.js
└── node_modules
    └── pineapple (pineapple module)

You could then use pineapple to create a server, bind routes, and listen on a port to start the service.

// it isn't needed to store pineapple in a variable as it is attached
// to the global object during its bootstrap
require('pineapple');

// define an app name 
var appName = "myService";

// server config
var serverConfig = {
  port   : 4000, 
  config : { 
    name : appName
  }
};

// Let pineapple no about your app name
pineapple.app.name = appName;

// we can create a server with minimal configuration
pineapple.api.create(serverConfig);

/**
 * In order for your server to work we will need some routes set up.
 * That can easily be achieved with pineapple's built in router.
 * 
 * The Router supports basic POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE protocols via
 * convenience methods:
 *  router.post(uri_path, [controller_path|callback]); // POST
 *  router.get(uri_path, [controller_path|callback]); // GET
 *  router.put(uri_path, [controller_path|callback]); // PUT
 *  router.del(uri_path, [controller_path|callback]); // DELETE
 *
 * If you need to set a custom method you can call .create() directly:
 *  router.create(CUSTOM_METHOD, uri_path, [controller_path|callback]);
 **/
// we need to create a router instance
var router = new pineapple.router.Router();

// lets get a "Hello world" going
router.get('/hello', function(request, response){
  // output some sanity
  pineapple.api.logger.success("Got the request, emitting response..");

  // response with a json response
  response.json(pineapple.server.OK, new pineapple.server.http.JSONResponse(pineapple.server.OK, {
    message  : "Hello world! I'm a pineapple api server."
  }));

  // Got the request now close the connection
  pineapple.api.logger.warn("Closing connection..");

  // close the connection
  pineapple.api.close();

  // warn pineapples departure
  pineapple.logger.warn("Exiting pineapple..");

  // exit..
  // you never really have to call .exit() directly..
  pineapple.exit();
});

// we need to bind the routes we just created to the server
pineapple.api.bindRoutes(router.routes);

// once all is said and done, we can finally start the server
// the .listen() method accept a port and a callback for arguments
pineapple.api.listen(serverConfig.port, function(){
  // tap into pineapples api logger
  pineapple.api.logger.info("Connected! =)");
});

From the command line you can then execute the app.js file with the node executable which will output something like this:

$ node app.js
[server] => Connected! =)

From the browser or from a program like cURL you could hit the following url http://localhost:4000/hello while your app is running.

$ curl http://localhost:4000/hello
{"code":200,"status":true,"data":{"message":"Hello world! I'm a pineapple api server."}}

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Starting a pineapple console

$ pineapple [console|c]
Requiring app module /config/environment
Requiring app module /config/development
Requiring app module /config/application
Requiring app module /config/routes.js
Requiring app module /app/controllers
Requiring app module /app/models
[app] => Found the Paplfile file. => /Users/werle/repos/myapp/Paplfile
[console] => Starting pineapple console..
[console] => SUCCESS Have fun!
Starting REPLConsole session with name pineapple with locale local
pineapple-local> [server] => Listening on port 4000

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Structure

myapp/
├── Capfile
├── Jakefile
├── Paplfile
├── Procfile
├── README.md
├── app
│   ├── controllers
│   │   ├── index.js
│   │   └── pineapple
│   │       ├── Api.js
│   │       └── index.js
│   └── models
│       └── index.js
├── config
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── application.json
│   ├── development.json
│   ├── environment.json
│   ├── production.json
│   └── routes.js
├── index.js
├── log
├── package.json
└── test
    └── app
        └── README.md

8 directories, 18 files

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Issues?

Submit all bugs here

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Community

Join the google group here

IRC? Hang out with us at #papl

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Copyright and license

Copyright 2012

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

pineapple copyright 2012 werle.io - joseph@werle.io