Sails js using models outside web server

Question

Sails js using models outside web server

I want to create a cli to create admin users I have the user model setup in api/models/User.js

and in cli on

var User, program;

program = require("commander");

User = require("../api/models/User");

program.version("0.0.1");

program.command("create_user").description("Create a user into database").action(function() {
  return console.log(User);
});

program.parse(process.argv);

User log is:

    User = {
      attributes: {
        username: "string",
        password: "string",
      }
    };

and no waterline methods available to use.

node.js
sails.js
waterline

Answer 1

You can use sails run <command>.

Simply create <appPath>/commands/index.js with this content:

module.exports = {
    testcommand: function (done) {
        // .. your code
        console.log('this is my testcommand');
        done();
    }
}

now you can run sails run testcommand

Answer 2

If any one needs this:

sails = require("sails");
sails.lift({
  log: {
    level: 'silent'
  }
}, function() {
  User.create(obj);
  process.stdin.destroy();
});