Using Remult in Non-Remult Routes

When using the CRUD api or BackendMethods, remult is automatically available. Still, there are many use cases where you may want to user remult in your own routes or other code without using BackendMethods but would still want to take advantage of Remult as an ORM and use it to check for user validity, etc...

If you tried to use the remult object, you may have got the error:

Error: remult object was requested outside of a valid context, try running it within initApi or a remult request cycle

Here's how you can use remult in this context, according to the server you're using:

withRemult middleware

You can use remult as an express middleware for a specific route, using api.withRemult

app.post('/api/customSetAll', api.withRemult, async (req, res) => {
  // ....
})

Or as an express middleware for multiple routes

app.use(api.withRemult) 
app.post('/api/customSetAll', async (req, res) => {
  // ....
})

withRemultAsync promise wrapper

Use the api.withRemultAsync method in promises

import express from 'express'
import { remultExpress } from 'remult/remult-express'

const app = express();
...
const api = remultExpress({
  entities:[Task]
})
app.post('/api/customSetAll', async (req, res) => {
  // use remult in a specific piece of code
  await api.withRemultAsync(req, async ()=> { 
    if (!remult.authenticated()) {
      res.sendStatus(403);
      return;
    }
    if (!remult.isAllowed("admin")) {
      res.sendStatus(403);
      return;
    }
    const taskRepo = remult.repo(Task);
    for (const task of await taskRepo.find()) {
      task.completed = req.body.completed;
      await taskRepo.save(task);
    }
    res.send();
  })
});

You can also use it without sending the request object, for non request related code

setInterval(async () => {
  api.withRemultAsync(undefined, async () => {
    // ....
  })
}, 10000)