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    <p>In Sails.js, a lot of work is done for you by generating the models and controllers. The controllers allow for access to the data through API's. It allows for easy pagination by passing the start/skip/offset and take/limit. But in order for me to determine the maximum page of a collection I need to know how many items are in a collection.</p> <p>I have tried to extend the blueprint in the generator to expose a new API method <code>count</code> and create the count action. According to the <a href="https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline">Waterline documentation</a>, <code>count</code> is an action that can be called on the model. When I call <code>User.count()</code>, I get this:</p> <pre><code>{ _context: { identity: 'user', adapter: { syncable: false, defaults: [Object], registerCollection: [Function], create: [Function], find: [Function], update: [Function], destroy: [Function], count: [Function], identity: 'odata', globalId: 'odata', config: [Object] }, attributes: {}, _cast: { _types: [Object] }, _schema: { context: [Circular], schema: [Object], hasSchema: true }, _validator: { validations: {} }, _callbacks: { beforeValidation: [Object], afterValidation: [Object], beforeUpdate: [Object], afterUpdate: [Object], beforeCreate: [Object], afterCreate: [Object], beforeDestroy: [Object], afterDestroy: [Object] }, _instanceMethods: {}, autoPK: true, autoCreatedAt: true, autoUpdatedAt: true, hasSchema: true, migrate: 'alter', _model: { [Function] extend: [Function], inject: [Function], __super__: {} }, _transformer: { _transformations: {} }, _tableName: 'user', _adapterDefs: [ [Object] ], _adapter: { adapter: [Object], adapterDefs: [Object], query: [Circular], collection: 'user' }, syncable: [Function], defaults: [Function], registerCollection: [Function], config: [Function], findOneById: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByIdIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByIdLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], findById: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByIdIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByIdLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], countById: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByIdIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByIdLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], idStartsWith: [Function: dynamicMethod], idContains: [Function: dynamicMethod], idEndsWith: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByCreatedAt: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByCreatedAtIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByCreatedAtLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByCreatedAt: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByCreatedAtIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByCreatedAtLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByCreatedAt: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByCreatedAtIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByCreatedAtLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], createdAtStartsWith: [Function: dynamicMethod], createdAtContains: [Function: dynamicMethod], createdAtEndsWith: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByUpdatedAt: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByUpdatedAtIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], findOneByUpdatedAtLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByUpdatedAt: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByUpdatedAtIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], findByUpdatedAtLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByUpdatedAt: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByUpdatedAtIn: [Function: dynamicMethod], countByUpdatedAtLike: [Function: dynamicMethod], updatedAtStartsWith: [Function: dynamicMethod], updatedAtContains: [Function: dynamicMethod], updatedAtEndsWith: [Function: dynamicMethod] }, _method: [Function], _criteria: {}, _values: null } </code></pre> <p>Note: I am using a custom adapter, but I have created a <code>count</code> method for the adapter.</p>
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    2. COOf course its callback based.. I don't know what I was thinking. That also explains what it was returning... the chain-able `User` object.
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    3. COI have not use sails, I think it should be User.count(function (err, num) { console.log(num); }); And if you defined a count method, it should be: count = function(callback) { User.count(callback) };
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