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Sequelize plugin for tracking revision history of model instances.
https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail
javascript mariadb mysql nodejs papertrail postgresql revision sequelize sequelize-extension sequelize-library sequelize-paper-trail sequelizejs sqlite
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Sequelize plugin for tracking revision history of model instances.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail
- Owner: nielsgl
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-04-26T23:26:33.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-08T15:24:11.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-21T23:07:14.348Z (13 days ago)
- Topics: javascript, mariadb, mysql, nodejs, papertrail, postgresql, revision, sequelize, sequelize-extension, sequelize-library, sequelize-paper-trail, sequelizejs, sqlite
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 1.04 MB
- Stars: 96
- Watchers: 8
- Forks: 68
- Open Issues: 45
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Sequelize Paper Trail
---
> **Help wanted:** *Please try out `[email protected]` and give a 👍/👎 [here](https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail/pull/74) if it works as expected.*
---
> Track changes to your models, for auditing or versioning. See how a model looked at any stage in its lifecycle, revert it to any version, or restore it after it has been destroyed. Record the user who created the version.
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## Table of Contents
- [Sequelize Paper Trail](#sequelize-paper-trail)
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Example](#example)
- [User Tracking](#user-tracking)
- [Options](#options)
- [Default options](#default-options)
- [Options documentation](#options-documentation)
- [Limitations](#limitations)
- [Testing](#testing)
- [Support](#support)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Author](#author)
- [Thanks](#thanks)
- [Links](#links)
## Installation
```bash
npm install --save sequelize-paper-trail
# or with yarn:
# yarn add sequelize-paper-trail
```
*Note: the current test suite is very limited in coverage.*
## Usage
Sequelize Paper Trail assumes that you already set up your Sequelize connection, for example, like this:
```javascript
const Sequelize = require('sequelize');
const sequelize = new Sequelize('database', 'username', 'password');
```
then adding Sequelize Paper Trail is as easy as:
```javascript
const PaperTrail = require('sequelize-paper-trail').init(sequelize, options);
PaperTrail.defineModels();
```
which loads the Paper Trail library, and the `defineModels()` method sets up a `Revisions` and `RevisionHistory` table.
*Note: If you pass `userModel` option to `init` in order to enable user tracking, `userModel` should be setup before `defineModels()` is called.*
Then for each model that you want to keep a paper trail you simply add:
```javascript
Model.hasPaperTrail();
```
`hasPaperTrail` returns the `hasMany` association to the `revisionModel` so you can keep track of the association for reference later.
### Example
```javascript
const Sequelize = require('sequelize');
const sequelize = new Sequelize('database', 'username', 'password');
const PaperTrail = require('sequelize-paper-trail').init(sequelize, options || {});
PaperTrail.defineModels();
const User = sequelize.define('User', {
username: Sequelize.STRING,
birthday: Sequelize.DATE
});
User.Revisions = User.hasPaperTrail();
```
## User Tracking
There are 2 steps to enable user tracking, ie, recording the user who created a particular revision.
1. Enable user tracking by passing `userModel` option to `init`, with the name of the model which stores users in your application as the value.
```javascript
const options = {
/* ... */
userModel: 'user',
};
```
2. Pass the id of the user who is responsible for the database operation to `sequelize-paper-trail` either by sequelize options or by using [continuation-local-storage](https://www.npmjs.com/package/continuation-local-storage).
```javascript
Model.update({
/* ... */
}, {
userId: user.id
}).then(() {
/* ... */
});
```
OR
```javascript
const createNamespace = require('continuation-local-storage').createNamespace;
const session = createNamespace('my session');
session.set('userId', user.id);
Model.update({
/* ... */
}).then(() {
/* ... */
});
```
To enable continuation-local-storage set `continuationNamespace` in initialization options.
Additionally, you may also have to call `.run()` or `.bind()` on your cls namespace, as described in the [docs](https://www.npmjs.com/package/continuation-local-storage).
## Disable logging for a single call
To not log a specific change to a revisioned object, just pass a `noPaperTrail` with a truthy (true, 1, ' ') value.
```javascript
const instance = await Model.findOne();
instance.update({ noPaperTrail: true }).then(() {
/* ... */
});
```
## Options
Paper Trail supports various options that can be passed into the initialization. The following are the default options:
### Default options
```javascript
// Default options
const options = {
exclude: [
'id',
'createdAt',
'updatedAt',
'deletedAt',
'created_at',
'updated_at',
'deleted_at'
],
revisionAttribute: 'revision',
revisionModel: 'Revision',
revisionChangeModel: 'RevisionChange',
enableRevisionChangeModel: false,
UUID: false,
underscored: false,
underscoredAttributes: false,
defaultAttributes: {
documentId: 'documentId',
revisionId: 'revisionId'
},
enableCompression: false,
enableMigration: false,
enableStrictDiff: true,
continuationKey: 'userId',
belongsToUserOptions: undefined,
metaDataFields: undefined,
metaDataContinuationKey: 'metaData'
};
```
### Options documentation
| Option | Type | Default Value | Description |
| --------------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [debug] | Boolean | false | Enables logging to the console. |
| [exclude] | Array | ['id', 'createdAt', 'updatedAt', 'deletedAt', 'created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at', [options.revisionAttribute]] | Array of global attributes to exclude from the paper trail. |
| [revisionAttribute] | String | 'revision' | Name of the attribute in the table that corresponds to the current revision. |
| [revisionModel] | String | 'Revision' | Name of the model that keeps the revision models. |
| [tableName] | String | undefined | Name of the table that keeps the revision models. Passed to Sequelize. Necessary in Sequelize 5+ when underscored is true and the table is camelCase or PascalCase. |
| [revisionChangeModel] | String | 'RevisionChange' | Name of the model that tracks all the attributes that have changed during each create and update call. |
| [enableRevisionChangeModel] | Boolean | false | Disable the revision change model to save space. |
| [UUID] | Boolean | false | The [revisionModel] has id attribute of type UUID for postgresql. |
| [underscored] | Boolean | false | The [revisionModel] and [revisionChangeModel] have 'createdAt' and 'updatedAt' attributes, by default, setting this option to true changes it to 'created_at' and 'updated_at'. |
| [underscoredAttributes] | Boolean | false | The [revisionModel] has a [defaultAttribute] 'documentId', and the [revisionChangeModel] has a [defaultAttribute] 'revisionId, by default, setting this option to true changes it to 'document_id' and 'revision_id'. |
| [defaultAttributes] | Object | { documentId: 'documentId', revisionId: 'revisionId' } | |
| [userModel] | String | | Name of the model that stores users in your. |
| [enableCompression] | Boolean | false | Compresses the revision attribute in the [revisionModel] to only the diff instead of all model attributes. |
| [enableMigration] | Boolean | false | Automatically adds the [revisionAttribute] via a migration to the models that have paper trails enabled. |
| [enableStrictDiff] | Boolean | true | Reports integers and strings as different, e.g. `3.14` !== `'3.14'` |
| [continuationNamespace] | String | | Name of the name space used with the continuation-local-storage module. |
| [continuationKey] | String | 'userId' | The continuation-local-storage key that contains the user id. |
| [belongsToUserOptions] | Object | undefined | The options used for belongsTo between userModel and Revision model |
| [metaDataFields] | Object | undefined | The keys that will be provided in the meta data object. { key: isRequired (boolean)} format. Can be used to privovide additional fields - other associations, dates, etc to the Revision model |
| [metaDataContinuationKey] | String | 'metaData' | The continuation-local-storage key that contains the meta data object, from where the metaDataFields are extracted. |
## Limitations
* This project does not support models with composite primary keys. You can work around using a unique index with multiple fields.
## Testing
The tests are designed to run on SQLite3 in-memory tables, built from Sequelize migration files. If you want to actually generate a database file, change the storage option to a filename and run the tests.
```bash
npm test
# or with yarn:
# yarn test
```
## Support
Please use:
* GitHub's [issue tracker](https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail/issues)
## Contributing
1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Added some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request
## Author
© [Niels van Galen Last](https://nielsgl.com) – [@nielsgl](https://twitter.com/nielsgl) – [email protected]
Distributed under the MIT license. See ``LICENSE`` for more information.
[https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail](https://github.com/nielsgl/)
## Thanks
This project was inspired by:
* [Sequelize-Revisions](https://github.com/bkniffler/sequelize-revisions)
* [Paper Trail](https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail)
Contributors:
[https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail/graphs/contributors](https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail/graphs/contributors)
## Links
* [Example application](https://github.com/nielsgl/sequelize-paper-trail-example)