How to set a fields to be inside a key of nested array.

[deremer]

Great plugin! Loving it. This not an issue, unless it's not possible, in which case it's a feature request. Had a quick question about updating embedded arrays...

Say you've got a standard User model, and the following:

var VoteSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  vote              : { type: Number }
});

var ItemSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  text              : { type: String, },
  votes             : [VoteSchema]
});

VoteSchema.plugin(filler, {
  ref  : 'User',
  dest : 'Claim',
  pos  : 'votes.$.',
  select : 'firstName lastName'
});

This works wonderfully (thanks again!), but it returns the user fields at the same level of 'vote'. So you get this...

votes = [
 { firstName: 'blah', lastName: 'blah', vote: 1 }
]

Is it possible to make it sync the user fields behind a 'user' key, like this:

votes = [
 { user: { firstName: 'blah', lastName: 'blah'}, vote: 1 }
]

Thanks for your help.

[pgherveou]

Did you try this?

VoteSchema.plugin(filler, {
  ref  : 'User',
  dest : 'Claim',
  pos  : 'votes.$.user',
  select : 'firstName lastName'
});

[deremer]

I tried that first before I entered the issue (should’ve mentioned it). Unfortunately it doesn’t work, unless I’m missing a key part of the process.

If I just add “ pos  : 'votes.$.user’ “ then actually it doesn’t bring any of the user fields.

If I add “ user : {} “ or “ user : mongoose.Schema.Types.Mixed “ to the VoteSchema, then when I save the user _id, it is saved, but none of the user fields are synced...

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help.

On May 29, 2014 at 5:15:50 PM, PG Herveou ([email protected]) wrote:

Did you try this?

VoteSchema.plugin(filler, {
ref : 'User',
dest : 'Claim',
pos : 'votes.$.user',
select : 'firstName lastName'
});
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[pgherveou]

if you copy a working script here, I can check it out
you can also enable debugging on mongoose to see what's going on

 require('mongoose').set('debug', true)