Add support for nesting objects with an array

examples/nesting-schema.js

@@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ var User = modelBuilder.define('User', {
     emails: [{
         label: String,
         email: String
-    }]
+    }],
+    friends: [String]
 });
 
-var user = new User({name: 'Joe', age: 20, address: {street: '123 Main St', 'city': 'San Jose', state: 'CA'}, emails: [{label: 'work', email: 'xyz@sample.com'}]});
+var user = new User({name: 'Joe', age: 20, address: {street: '123 Main St', 'city': 'San Jose', state: 'CA'},
+    emails: [{label: 'work', email: 'xyz@sample.com'}],
+    friends: ['John', 'Mary']});
 console.log(user.toObject());

lib/list.js

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function List(data, type, parent) {
     }
 
     data.forEach(function(item, i) {
-        data[i] = new Item(item, list);
+        data[i] = Item(item, list);
         Object.defineProperty(list, data[i].id, {
             writable: true,
             enumerable: false,
@@ -147,12 +147,20 @@ List.prototype.find = function(pattern, field) {
     }
 };
 
-List.prototype.toObject = function() {
+List.prototype.toObject = function(onlySchema) {
-    return this.items;
+    var items = [];
+    this.items.forEach(function(item) {
+        if(item.toObject) {
+            items.push(item.toObject(onlySchema));
+        } else {
+            items.push(item);
+        }
+    });
+    return items;
 };
 
 List.prototype.toJSON = function() {
-    return this.items;
+    return this.toObject(true);
 };
 
 List.prototype.toString = function() {
@@ -199,6 +207,9 @@ List.prototype.map = function(cb) {
 };
 
 function ListItem(data, parent) {
+    if(!(this instanceof  ListItem)) {
+        return new ListItem(data, parent);
+    }
     if (typeof data === 'object') {
         for (var i in data) this[i] = data[i];
     } else {

lib/model.js

@@ -172,9 +172,13 @@ ModelBaseClass.prototype.toObject = function (onlySchema) {
 
     this.constructor.forEachProperty(function (attr) {
         if (self[attr] instanceof List) {
-            data[attr] = self[attr].toObject();
+            data[attr] = self[attr].toObject(onlySchema);
         } else if (self.__data.hasOwnProperty(attr)) {
-            data[attr] = self[attr];
+            if(self[attr] !== undefined && self[attr]!== null && self[attr].toObject) {
+                data[attr] = self[attr].toObject(onlySchema);
+            } else {
+                data[attr] = self[attr];
+            }
         } else {
             data[attr] = null;
         }

test/adl.test.js

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ describe('DataSource define model', function () {
         };
 
         var user = new User({name: 'Joe'});
-        console.log(user);
+        // console.log(user);
 
         // setup relationships
         User.hasMany(Post, {as: 'posts', foreignKey: 'userId'});
@@ -146,15 +146,15 @@ describe('DataSource define model', function () {
 
         var user2 = new User({name: 'Smith'});
         user2.save(function (err) {
-            console.log(user2);
+            // console.log(user2);
             var post = user2.posts.build({title: 'Hello world'});
             post.save(function (err, data) {
-                console.log(err ? err : data);
+                // console.log(err ? err : data);
             });
         });
 
         Post.findOne({where: {published: false}, order: 'date DESC'}, function (err, data) {
-            console.log(data);
+            // console.log(data);
         });
 
         User.create({name: 'Jeff'}, function (err, data) {
@@ -162,13 +162,13 @@ describe('DataSource define model', function () {
                 console.log(err);
                 return;
             }
-            console.log(data);
+            // console.log(data);
             var post = data.posts.build({title: 'My Post'});
-            console.log(post);
+            // console.log(post);
         });
 
         User.create({name: 'Ray'}, function (err, data) {
-            console.log(data);
+            // console.log(data);
         });
 
         var Article = ds.define('Article', {title: String});
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ describe('DataSource define model', function () {
             article.tags.create({name: 'popular'}, function (err, data) {
                 Article.findOne(function (e, article) {
                     article.tags(function (e, tags) {
-                        console.log(tags);
+                        // console.log(tags);
                     });
                 });
             });
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ describe('Load models from json', function () {
         models.should.have.property('Customer');
         for (var s in models) {
             var m = models[s];
-            console.log(m.modelName, new m());
+            // console.log(m.modelName, new m());
         }
     });
 });

test/relations.test.js

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ describe('relations', function() {
             Article.create(function(e, article) {
                 article.tags.create({name: 'popular'}, function(e, t) {
                     t.should.be.an.instanceOf(Tag);
-                    console.log(t);
+                    // console.log(t);
                     ArticleTag.findOne(function(e, at) {
                         should.exist(at);
                         at.tagId.toString().should.equal(t.id.toString());