add additional access patterns

Author: alexleventer

README.md

@@ -1 +1,10 @@
-# @datastax/astra-ts-client
+# @datastax/astra-ts-client
+
+## Getting Started
+
+```typescript
+import { AstraDB } from "@datastax/astra-ts-client";
+const astraDb = new AstraDB(TOKEN, DATABASE_ID, REGION);
+const collection = await astraDb.collection("events");
+const results = await collection.countDocuments();
+```

package.json

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   ],
   "homepage": "https://github.com/datastax/astra-ts-client",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
-  "main": "dist/src/index.js",
+  "main": "dist/index.js",
   "mocha": {
     "timeout": 30000,
     "require": [

src/collections/client.ts

@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 
 import { Db } from './db';
-import { createNamespace, parseUri } from './utils';
+import {createAstraUri, createNamespace, parseUri} from './utils';
 import { HTTPClient } from '@/src/client';
 import { logger } from '@/src/logger';
+import {Collection} from "./collection";
 
 export interface ClientOptions {
   applicationToken?: string;
@@ -79,6 +80,10 @@ export class Client {
         return client;
     }
 
+    async collection(name: string) {
+        return new Collection(this.httpClient, name);
+    }
+
     /**
    * Connect the MongoClient instance to JSON API (create Namespace automatically when the 'createNamespaceOnConnect' flag is set to true)
    * @returns a MongoClient instance
@@ -130,3 +135,11 @@ export class Client {
     }
 
 }
+
+export class AstraDB extends Client {
+    constructor(token: string, dbId: string, region: string, keyspace?: string) {
+        const keyspaceName = keyspace || "default_keyspace"
+        const endpoint = createAstraUri(dbId, region, keyspaceName)
+        super(endpoint, keyspaceName, {isAstra: true, applicationToken: token});
+    }
+}

src/collections/index.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
 
-export { Client } from './client';
+export { Client, AstraDB } from './client';
 export { Collection } from './collection';
 
 export {
@@ -27,7 +27,4 @@ export {
     DeleteOneOptions
 } from './options';
 
-// alias for MongoClient shimming
-export { Client as MongoClient } from './client';
-
 export { createAstraUri, createStargateUri } from './utils';

src/index.ts

@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
 
-export * as collections from './collections';
-export * as client from './client';
-export * as logger from './logger';
+export { Collection }  from './collections';
+export { AstraDB } from './collections/client';
+// export * as client from './client';
+// export * as logger from './logger';
 
-import { createStargateUri, createAstraUri } from './collections';
-export { createStargateUri, createAstraUri };
+// import { createStargateUri, createAstraUri } from './collections';
+// export { createStargateUri, createAstraUri };