Generic count method

BaseController.js

/**
 * api/services/BaseController.js
 * 
 * Base controller for all sails.js controllers. This just contains some common code
 * that every controller uses
 */
'use strict';

var actionUtil = require('sails/lib/hooks/blueprints/actionUtil');

module.exports = {
    /**
     * Generic count action for controller.
     *
     * @param   {Request}   request
     * @param   {Response}  response
     */
    count: function(request, response) {
        var Model = actionUtil.parseModel(request);

        Model
            .count(actionUtil.parseCriteria(request))
            .exec(function found(error, count) {
                response.json({count: count});
            });
    }
};

ProjectController.js

/**
 * /api/controllers/ProjectController.js 
 *
 * @description ::
 * @docs        :: http://sailsjs.org/#!documentation/controllers
 */
'use strict';

var _ = require("lodash");

module.exports = _.merge(_.cloneDeep(require("../services/BaseController")), {
});