Create Event Sample for Howard U Cross-Platform Mobile App Class Using Titanium Appcelerator Alloy + Appcelerator Cloud Services

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Create Event Sample for Howard U Cross-Platform Mobile App Class Using Titanium Appcelerator Alloy

1. Create New Project and make sure you cloud-enable the application
2. Download the starter template from the github repo https://github.com/aaronksaunders/acs-adapter-starter/archive/master.zip
3. Copy the contents of the app directory from the starter-template to replace the files in the new project you just created
4. Login to the appcelerator cloud service console - my.appcelerator.com
5. create a new test user for the application
6. add the event.js file to the app/models directory
7. add the function to you application and that should create a new Event

###Extending Model Example We also show an example of extending the Event model object to return the formatted time in two different ways using the moment.js javascript library

event.js

//
// http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/Titanium.Cloud.Events
//
exports.definition = {

    config : {
        "columns" : {},
        "defaults" : {},
        "adapter" : {
            "type" : "acs",
        },
        "settings" : {
            "object_name" : "events",
            "object_method" : "Events"
        }
    },

    extendModel : function(Model) {
        // http://momentjs.com/
        var moment = require('alloy/moment');

        _.extend(Model.prototype, {
            /**
             * returns the start_time using plain english relative to current
             * time
             */
            getFromNowStartTime : function() {
                var _model = this;
                return moment(_model.get("start_time")).fromNow();
            },
            /**
             * returns the start_time formatted
             * See moment documentation for more information on formats
             * @param {Object} _format
             */
            getFormattedStartTime : function(_format) {
                var _model = this;
                return moment(_model.get("start_time")).format(_format || 'LLL');
            }
        });
        return Model;
    },

    extendCollection : function(Collection) {
        _.extend(Collection.prototype, {});
        return Collection;
    }
};

index.js

function doCreateEvent() {
    var anEvent = Alloy.createModel('Event');
    anEvent.set({
        name : 'Celebration',
        start_time : new Date(),
        duration : 3600,
        recurring : 'monthly',
        recurring_count : 5
    });
    
    anEvent.save().then(function(_model) {
            console.log("anEvent.save " +JSON.stringify(_model,null,2));
            
            var moment = require('alloy/moment');
            console.log("start time-relative: " + _model.getFromNowStartTime());
            console.log("start time-formatted: " + _model.getFormattedStartTime());
        }, function(_error) {
            alert(_error.message);
        });
}