Adding entity metadata registry.

lib/datastore/entity.js

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+var entityMeta = {};
+
+var namespaceRegex = kindRegex = fieldNameRegex = new RegExp(/^[A-Za-z]+$/);
+
+/**
+ * Registers a kind and its field meta globally. In order
+ * to perform CRUD operations for a kind, you should register
+ * it with its field metadata.
+ *
+ * registerKind('namespace', 'Author', {
+ *   name: { kind: STRING, indexed: false },
+ *   tags: { kind: STRING, multi: true }, // an array of string elements.
+ *   favArticles: { kind: KEY, multi: true }
+ *   contact: {
+ *     kind: {
+ *       telephone: { kind: String },
+ *       email: { kind: String }
+ *     }
+ *   }
+ * });
+ *  
+ * @param  {string} namespace  Namespace of the kind.
+ * @param  {string} kind       Name of the kind.
+ * @param  {object} fieldMeta  Object that contains metadata information
+ *                             about the fields.
+ */
+function registerKind(namespace, kind, fieldMeta) {
+  // validate the input and put it to the dictionary
+  namespace = namespace || 'default';
+  if (!namespaceRegex.test(namespace)) {
+    throw new Error('Namespaces should match ' + namespaceRegex);
+  }
+  if (!kindRegex.test(kind)) {
+    throw new Error('Kinds should match ' + kindRegex);
+  }
+
+  // TODO(jbd): Validate namespace, kind and fieldMeta.
+  Object.keys(fieldMeta).forEach(function (fieldName) {
+    validateField(fieldName, fieldMeta[fieldName]);
+  });
+
+  if (!entityMeta[namespace]) {
+    entityMeta[namespace] = {};
+  }
+  entityMeta[namespace][kind] = fieldMeta;
+}
+
+function getKind(namespace, kind) {
+  return entityMeta[namespace] && entityMeta[namespace][kind];
+};
+
+function validateField(name, field) {
+  if (!fieldNameRegex.test(name)) {
+    throw new Error('Field name should match ' + fieldNameRegex);
+  }
+  if (!field.kind) {
+    throw new Error('Provide a kind for field ' + name);
+  }
+  if (typeof field.kind != 'object' && !primitiveKinds[field.kind]) {
+    throw new Error('Unknown kind for field ' + name);
+  }
+  if (typeof field.kind == 'object') {
+    Object.keys(field.key).forEach(function (key) {
+      validateField(key, field.key[key]);
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+var primitiveKinds = {
+  BOOL: 'BOOL',
+  NUMBER: 'NUMBER',
+  STRING: 'STRING',
+  BYTES: 'BYTES',
+  DATETIME: 'DATETIME',
+  KEY: 'KEY'
+}
+
+/**
+ * Export primitive kinds.
+ */
+module.exports.kinds = primitiveKinds;
+
+/**
+ * Export registerKind.
+ * @type {function}
+ */
+module.exports.registerKind = registerKind;
+
+/**
+ * Exports getKind.
+ * @type {function}
+ */
+module.exports.getKind = getKind;

test/datastore.entity.js

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+var assert = require('assert'),
+    entity = require('../lib/datastore/entity.js');
+
+var blogPostMetadata = {
+  title:       { kind: entity.kinds.STRING, indexed: true },
+  tags:        { kind: entity.kinds.STRING, multi: true, indexed: true },
+  publishedAt: { kind: entity.kinds.DATETIME },
+  author:      { kind: entity.kinds.KEY, indexed: true },
+  isDraft:     { kind: entity.kinds.BOOL, indexed: true }
+}
+
+describe('registerKind', function() {
+
+  it('should be able to register valid field metadata', function(done) {
+    entity.registerKind('namespace', 'kind', blogPostMetadata);
+    done();
+  });
+
+  it('should set the namespace to be "default" if zero value or null is provided', function(done) {
+    entity.registerKind(null, 'kind', blogPostMetadata);
+    var meta = entity.getKind('default', 'kind');
+    assert.strictEqual(meta, blogPostMetadata);
+    done();
+  });
+
+  it('should throw an exception if an invalid kind is provided', function(done) {
+    assert.throws(function() {
+      entity.registerKind(null, '000', blogPostMetadata);
+    }, /Kinds should match/);
+    done();
+  });
+});