Refactor introspection to ModelBuilder

examples/app-noschema.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 var DataSource = require('../../loopback-datasource-juggler').DataSource;
 var ModelBuilder = require('../../loopback-datasource-juggler').ModelBuilder;
-var introspectType = require('../lib/introspection');
+var introspectType = require('../lib/introspection')(ModelBuilder);
 
 var ds = new DataSource('memory');
 

lib/introspection.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-var ModelBuilder = require('./model-builder').ModelBuilder;
+module.exports = function getIntrospector(ModelBuilder) {
 
     function introspectType(value) {
 
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ function introspectType(value) {
         return properties;
     }
 
-module.exports = introspectType;
+    return introspectType;
+}
 
 

lib/model-builder.js

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ var List = require('./list.js');
 var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
 var util = require('util');
 
+// Set up types
+require('./types')(ModelBuilder);
+
+var introspect = require('./introspection')(ModelBuilder);
+
 /**
  * Export public API
  */
@@ -31,9 +36,6 @@ function ModelBuilder() {
 
 util.inherits(ModelBuilder, EventEmitter);
 
-// Set up types
-require('./types')(ModelBuilder);
-
 /**
  * Define class
  *
@@ -516,5 +518,21 @@ ModelBuilder.prototype.buildModels = function (schemas) {
     return models;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Introspect the json document to build a corresponding model
+ * @param name
+ * @param json
+ * @param options
+ * @returns {}
+ */
+ModelBuilder.prototype.buildModelFromInstance = function(name, json, options) {
+
+    // Introspect the JSON document to generate a schema
+    var schema = introspect(json);
+
+    // Create a model for the generated schema
+    return this.define(name, schema, options);
+}
+
 
 

test/introspection.test.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 var assert = require('assert');
 var ModelBuilder = require('../lib/model-builder').ModelBuilder;
-var introspectType = require('../lib/introspection');
+var introspectType = require('../lib/introspection')(ModelBuilder);
 var traverse = require('traverse');
 
 describe('Introspection of model definitions from JSON', function() {