Merge pull request #2679 from SubuIBM/newRef

Make the app instance available to connectors

Close #2679

Author: bajtos

lib/application.js

@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ app.dataSource = function(name, config) {
     this.dataSources[name] =
     this.dataSources[classify(name)] =
     this.dataSources[camelize(name)] = ds;
+    ds.app = this;
     return ds;
   } catch (err) {
     if (err.message) {

test/app.test.js

@@ -812,6 +812,12 @@ describe('app', function() {
         app.dataSource('bad-ds', { connector: 'throwing' });
       }).to.throw(/bad-ds.*throwing/);
     });
+
+    it('adds app reference to the data source object', function() {
+      app.dataSource('ds', { connector: 'memory' });
+      expect(app.datasources.ds.app).to.not.equal(undefined);
+      expect(app.datasources.ds.app).to.equal(app);
+    });
   });
 
   describe.onServer('listen()', function() {