How to create a normal sails model without being in the models folder

Question

So,

I\'m in the middle of implementing a plugin api for my application, and the plugins can have their own models, imagine this.

SimplePlugin = {
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Answer 1

EDIT: not working completely since collections are assigned to connections at initialization.

Seems that there is a better solution, with 3 lines of code and without disconnecting/reconnecting databases. I just studied the source code of Waterline (see https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline/blob/master/lib/waterline.js#L109). It's possible to do something like:

var Waterline = require('waterline');

// Other dependencies
var Schema = require('waterline-schema');
var CollectionLoader = require('waterline/lib/waterline/collection/loader');

var orm = new Waterline();

var config = {
    // Setup Adapters
    // Creates named adapters that have have been required
    adapters: {
        'default': 'mongo',
        mongo: require('sails-mongo')
    },

    // Build Connections Config
    // Setup connections using the named adapter configs
    connections: {
        'default': {
            adapter: 'mongo',
            url: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/sausage'
        }
    }
};

orm.initialize(config, function(err, data) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }

    // ORM initialized, let's add another model dynamically
    var User = Waterline.Collection.extend({
       identity: 'user',
        connection: 'default',

        attributes: {
            first_name: 'string',
            last_name: 'string'
        }
    });
    orm.loadCollection(User);

    var defaults = config.defaults || {};

    // This is where the magic happens
    var loader = new CollectionLoader(User, orm.connections, defaults);
    var collection = loader.initialize(orm);
    orm.collections[collection.identity.toLowerCase()] = collection;

    // Done! You can now use orm.collections.user :-D
});