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jamesjwarren
jamesjwarren

Reputation: 45

SailsJS accessing a service from a controller

I am trying to create a service in sailsjs so I can access some business logic from within multiple controllers, I've stumbled upon a number of issues... The service is an 'Action log' I hope to log data about specific api calls to the database via a model.

The file structure I have:

api/services/actionService.js - the service to receive data from controller and log to model
api/models/Action.js - functioning model to store logged actions
api/controllers/ActionController.js - functioning controller to respond to get requests for the action model
api/controllers/AnotherController.js - I wish to access the actionService from here to input data

  1. I am unsure how to reference the service from AnotherController.js; according to the sails docs I should be able to call ActionService(data) but I get an ActionService is not defined error. Is there something I need to do to load this dependency in the controller?

  2. Am I able to reference a model from within the service? At the moment I have something like Action.create(action)... in the service. This hasn't caused problems yet as I haven't got passed the first issue but wondering whether I also need to load this as a dependency in the service?

I'm new to implementing services in sailsjs, any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1196

Answers (1)

Mahammad Adil Azeem
Mahammad Adil Azeem

Reputation: 9392

You can access your services in any controller using this syntax:

<yourServicefilename>.method();

In your case it would be actionService.<yourMethodName>().

Upvotes: 3

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