Running a FileMaker Script with sails-filemaker

ContactController.js

/**
 * ContactController
 *
 * @description :: Server-side logic for managing Contacts
 * @help        :: See http://sailsjs.org/#!/documentation/concepts/Controllers
 */

module.exports = {

  /**
   * Custom endpoint - by default it will be available at
   * 
   * http://<server>:<port>/Contact/runScript
   * 
   * @param req
   * @param res
   */
  runScript : function (req, res) {

    /*
     we can call a script by adding '-script' : scriptname to any query
     in this case we add it to a find.
     
     this is true for any of the FileMaker XML publishing params.
     sails-filemaker treats them as data or criteria and will pass them on to FileMaker
     FileMaker interprets them correctly.
     
     Below we use '-script' and '-script.param'.

     you will need to give it some find criteria, even if you don't care about the find
     */

    var criteria = {
      'firstName' : "*",
      '-script' : 'my script',
      '-script.param' : 'my script parameter'
    };


    Contact.find(criteria).exec(function(err, results){
      if(err) return res.json(err)
      res.json(results);
    })
  }

};