extdirect

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Important: Version 2.0.0 and up is not compatible with previous 1.x branch

#### Compatibility:
* Sencha Touch 2.3+
* Ext JS 4.2.x+
* Ext JS 5+
* Ext JS 6.5+

#### Example code
Sample applications for Touch and Ext JS can be found here: https://github.com/jurisv/extdirect.examples

Official Sencha example (using Ext JS 6.5) can be found here: https://github.com/sencha-extjs-examples/Coworkee

Ext JS:

* Application structure with API provider
* Grid CRUD Master-detail
* Cookie / Session
* Direct method call, shows regular call and onw that has hard exception (syntax error)
* Form Load / Submit
* Form file upload (Cross domain upload is not supported!)
* Tree root / child dynamic load
* Metadata (Starting from Ext JS 5)
* Namespaces (From 4.2)

Sencha Touch:

* Application structure with API provider
* List read using directFn
* Form load / submit

#### Usage

For usage please refer to Examples.

Configuration description:

``
{
"ES6": false, // Support method discovery without function keyword.
"rootNamespace": "Server", // Namespace in which server will be accessible from client side
"apiName": "API", // API name
"apiUrl": "/directapi", // URL to retrieve API configuration
"classRouteUrl": "/direct", // URL to call Direct methods
"classPath": "/direct", // Direct class location in filesystem relative to the server directory
"server": "localhost", // Hosting server name
"port": "3000", // Hosting server port
"protocol": "http", // http | https
"timeout": 30000, // Operation timeout
"cacheAPI": false, // Set true to cache API's for production. During development setting to false will allow to make any changes and access API's without server reload.
"relativeUrl": false, // Use relative URL's
"appendRequestResponseObjects": true, // If true, will append req and res objects to method call
"enableMetadata": true, // Metadata support
"responseHelper": true, // Automatically append success true|false
"enableProcessors": true //Enable Helpers to have methods before and after API discovery as well as before and after Transaction batch
}
`

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* 2.0.5 (10 jul 2017)
* Add link to Sencha official example. No changes in API.
* 2.0.4 (14 may 2017)
* Support method discovery without function keyword. Implement #35

* 2.0.3 (14 may 2017)
* Wrong url is computed at request /directapi` Fix #36

* 2.0.2 (23 feb 2017)
* Fix deeply nested api discovery

* 2.0.1 (3 jun 2015)

* Allow callback to return boolean "false" value. (@cpmoser)

* 2.0.0 (14 may 2015)

* Comment source code and use descriptive variable names #21
* Implement namespaced Classes to have nested actions #29 See below
* Add namespace support (nested Actions) You can now organize files using folders
* More streamlined definition for metadata and formHandler (//@meta and //@formHandler )
* Exclude non .js files from API discovery
* Separate route paths for classes (classRouteUrl and classPath)
* Use latest Express framework in examples, closes #28
* New property 'cacheAPI' allows to bypass node module caching, which gives the option to work on class files without reloading the server
* Callback format changed to be in line with node.js standards callback(err, result); closes #30
* New property 'responseHelper'. It will add success: true/false to result payload if:
* We set success to true if responseHelper is TRUE and callback is called without any arguments or with true as result or result object is present, but success is missing
* We set success to false if autoResponse is TRUE and callback is called with result set to false
* Place Processor files or any othere relevant scriots in .scripts folder. It will be ignored during API discovery
* API Processor. Two methods beforeApi and afterApi to hook in to API discovery flow. See Examples for ExtJS
* Router Processor. Two methods beforeTransaction and afterTransaction. See Examples for ExtJS. Use them to open and close db connection.
* Add support for metadata #27