Now we can build or database by reading schema files. Also added doc strings to all the functions. This is a much better definition of a database script for our usecases..

seasoned_api/src/database/sqliteDatabase.js

@@ -4,30 +4,80 @@ const sqlite = require('sqlite');
 
 class SqliteDatabase {
 
-	constructor(host) {
-		this.host = host;
-		this.connection = sqlite;
+   constructor(host) {
+      this.host = host;
+      this.connection = sqlite;
+      this.schemaDirectory = path.join(__dirname, 'schemas');
+   }
 
-		// this.schemaDirectory = path.join(__dirname, 'schemas');
-	}
+   /**
+   * Connect to the database.
+   * @returns {Promise} succeeds if connection was established
+   */
+   connect() {
+      return Promise.resolve()
+      .then(() => sqlite.open(this.host))
+      .then(() => sqlite.exec('pragma foreign_keys = on;'));
+   }
 
-	connect() {
-		return Promise.resolve()
-		.then(() => sqlite.open(this.host))
-		.then(() => sqlite.exec('pragma foreign_keys = on;'));
-	}
+   /**
+   * Run a SQL query against the database.
+   * @param {String} sql SQL query
+   * @param {Array} parameters in the SQL query
+   * @returns {Promise}
+   */
+   run(sql, parameters) {
+      return this.connection.run(sql, parameters);
+   }
 
-	all(sql, parameters) {
-		return this.connection.all(sql, parameters);
-	}
+   /**
+   * Run a SQL query against the database and retrieve all the rows.
+   * @param {String} sql SQL query
+   * @param {Array} parameters in the SQL query
+   * @returns {Promise}
+   */
+   all(sql, parameters) {
+      return this.connection.all(sql, parameters);
+   }
 
-	get(sql, parameters) {
-		return this.connection.get(sql, parameters);
-	}
+   /**
+   * Run a SQL query against the database and retrieve one row.
+   * @param {String} sql SQL query
+   * @param {Array} parameters in the SQL query
+   * @returns {Promise}
+   */
+   get(sql, parameters) {
+      return this.connection.get(sql, parameters);
+   }
 
-	run(sql, parameters) {
-		return this.connection.run(sql, parameters);
-	}
+   /**
+   * Run a SQL query against the database and retrieve the status.
+   * @param {String} sql SQL query
+   * @param {Array} parameters in the SQL query
+   * @returns {Promise}
+   */
+   execute(sql) {
+      return this.connection.exec(sql);
+   }
+
+   /**
+   * Setup the database by running setup.sql file in schemas/.
+   * @returns {Promise}
+   */
+   setUp() {
+      const setupSchema = this.readSqlFile('setup.sql');
+      return this.execute(setupSchema);
+   }
+
+   /**
+   * Returns the file contents of a SQL file in schemas/.
+   * @returns {String}
+   */
+   readSqlFile(filename) {
+      const schemaPath = path.join(this.schemaDirectory, filename);
+      const schema = fs.readFileSync(schemaPath).toString('utf-8');
+      return schema;
+   }
 }
 
 module.exports = SqliteDatabase;