I've been tasked with adding an Angular Typeahead search field to a site and the data needs to come from multiple tables. It needs to be a "search all the things" kind of query which looks for people, servers, and applications in one spot.
I was thinking the best way to do this would be to have a single API endpoint in Sails which could pull from 3 tables on the same DB and send the results, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it.
Use the built-in bluebird library, specifically Promise.all(). To handle the results, use .spread(). Example controller code (modify to suit your case):
var Promise = require('bluebird');
module.exports = {
searchForStuff: function(req, res) {
var params = req.allParams();
// Replace the 'find' criteria with whatever suitable for your case
var requests = [
Person.find({name: params.searchString}),
Server.find({name: params.searchString}),
Application.find({name: params.searchString})
];
Promise.all(requests)
.spread(function(people, servers, applications) {
return res.json({
people: people,
servers: servers,
applications: applications
})
})
}
}