Blueprint Actions
Blueprint actions (not to be confused with blueprint action routes) are generic actions designed to work with any of your controllers that have a model of the same name (e.g. ParrotController would need a Parrot model). Think of them as the default behavior for your application. For instance, if you have a User.js model and an empty UserController.js controller, find, create, update, destroy, populate, add and remove actions exist implicitly, without you having to write them.
By default, the blueprint RESTful routes and shortcut routes are bound to their corresponding blueprint actions. However, any blueprint action can be overridden for a particular controller by creating a custom action in that controller file (e.g. ParrotController.find). Alternatively, you can override the blueprint action everywhere in your app by creating your own custom blueprint action. (e.g. api/blueprints/create.js).
The current version of Sails ships with the following blueprint actions:
Overriding blueprint actions
You may also override any of the actions for a model by naming your function method the same name as the blueprint action.
module.exports = {
findOne: function (req, res) {
return res.json(403, 'Single model lookup is denied.');
}
}
For more information about blueprints, including how to disable and override them, see the Blueprint API reference
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