Consuming the DB api

gistfile1.js

var unirest = require('unirest');

function get(url, callback) {
	unirest.get(url).end(function (response) {
  	var result, entity = response.body;
  	if (entity.data) {
  		result =[];
  		for(var t=0;t<entity.data.length;t++) {
  			result.push(_prepare(entity.data[t]));
  		}
  	} else {
  		result = _prepare(entity);
  	}
  	callback(result);
	});
}

function _prepare(entity) {
	entity._cache = {};
	if (entity._links) {
		var refNames = Object.keys(entity._links)
		var length = refNames.length;
		var parent =  null;
		for(var i=0;i<length;i++) {
			var refName = refNames[i];
			var link = entity._links[refName];
			entity[refName] = (function (link, refName) {
      		return function(callback, reload) {
      			if (!reload && entity._cache[refName]) {
      				callback(entity._cache[refName]);
      			} else {
							get(link.href, function(response) {
								entity._cache[refName] = response;
      					callback(response);
      				}); 
      			}  
      		}
      })(link, refName);
      if (link.parent) entity.parent = entity[refName];
		}
		delete entity._links;
	}
	return entity;
}


get("http://192.168.50.5:8080/mashape-apis-database-server/v1/accounts/mashaper", function(user) {

	user.profile(function(profile) {

	}); // LAZY LOADED

	user.profile(function(profile) {
		
	}); // THIS IS RETRIEVED FROM CACHE

	user.profile(function(profile) {

		profile.parent(function(parent) {

			// THE PARENT IS USER

		});
		
	}, true); // FORCE RELOAD, RE-MAKES THE REQUEST

});