es6/utils/Table.js

import Expressive from './Expressive'
import thinky     from '../thinky'

const {r} = thinky

/**
 * Some useful table extensions for Thinky
 */
export default class Table extends Expressive {

  /**
   * creates a Thinky model
   *
   * @param      {Array}  config    The accepts the same arguments as thinky.createModel
   */
  static createModel (...args) {
    this._table = thinky.createModel.apply(thinky, args)
    return this
  }

  /**
   * returns a reference to the raw Table object
   *
   * @return     {Thinky:Table}  The table
   */
  static get table () {
    return this._table
  }

  /**
   * returns what the table name is, useful for raw `r` commands
   */
  static get tableName () {
    return this.table.getTableName()
  }

  /**
   * creates a new row on this Table
   *
   * @param      {Object}  attrs   The attributes for the row
   */
  static row (attrs) {
    return new this.table(attrs)
  }

  /**
   * drops this table on the database, primarily used to clean up after tests
   */
  static drop () {
    return r.tableDrop( this.tableName ).run()
  }

  /**
   * empties all rows from the table
   */
  static empty () {
    return r.table( this.tableName ).delete()
  }

  /**
   * emits when the table is online, for any interested Listeners
   */
  constructor () {
    super()
    this.table = this.constructor.table

    this.table.ready().then( _ => {
      this.is("online")
    })
  }
}