Sails.js best practice in using transactions with promises (Postgres)

Question

I\'m using sails 0.9.16 with Postgres and my question is: what is the best way to execute transaction using current API with promises? May be there is something better than:

Answer 1

The best way to deal with transactions is when they are wrapped properly by a promise library, because transaction logic maps perfectly into the promise event chain, one doesn't have to worry about when to do COMMIT or ROLLBACK, as it happens automatically.

Here's a complete example of how it works with pg-promise library:

var pgp = require('pg-promise')(/*options*/);

var cn = "postgres://username:password@host:port/database";
var db = pgp(cn); // database instance;

db.tx(t => {
    // BEGIN has been executed
    return t.batch([
        t.one("insert into users(name) values($1) returning id", 'John'),
        t.one("insert into users(name) values($1) returning id", 'Mike')
    ]);
})
    .then(data => {
        // COMMIT has been executed
        console.log(data[0].id); // print id assigned to John;
        console.log(data[1].id); // print id assigned to Mike;
    })
    .catch(error => {
        // ROLLBACK has been executed
        console.log(error); // print why failed;
    });