how to call default blueprint actions in a custom overridden one?

Question

SailsJS provides default blueprint actions, such as find, update, create, etc.

I need to override some of them to suit particular business purposes. However, I would lik

Answer 1

You should look at lifecycle callbacks in sailsjs. So for example, you can use beforeUpdate or beforeCreate lifecycle callback to do more in the model:

var bcrypt = require('bcrypt');

module.exports = {

  attributes: {

    username: {
      type: 'string',
      required: true
    },

    password: {
      type: 'string',
      minLength: 6,
      required: true,
      columnName: 'encrypted_password'
    }

  },


  // Lifecycle Callbacks
  beforeCreate: function (values, cb) {

    // Encrypt password
    bcrypt.hash(values.password, 10, function(err, hash) {
      if(err) return cb(err);
      values.password = hash;
      //calling cb() with an argument returns an error. Useful for canceling the entire operation if some criteria fails.
      cb();
    });
  }
};