How to make Mongoose model.insertMany insert documents with numerical and ordered ids? - mongodb

Question

I have this route in the backend express server:
router.route('/fillInformationAssetsSeverityEvaluation').post((req, res) => {
informationAssetsSeverityEvaluationRow.remove({}, (err) => {
if (err)
console.log(err);
else
// res.json("informationAssets Collection has been dropped!");
res.json('information Assets Severity Evaluation data has been received on the server side')
informationAssetsSeverityEvaluationRow.insertMany([req.body[0]], {
multi: true
}).then(documentsInserted => {
console.log('[req.body[0]]: ', [req.body[0]]);
console.log('documentsInserted: ', documentsInserted);
console.log('You have succesfully inserted ', documentsInserted.length, ' documents in informationAssetsSeverityEvaluation collection');
});
});
})
For the sake of simplicity, I am inserting only one document.
[req.body[0]]
{ REF: 'REFSHIT',
confFin: 'A',
confRep: 'A'}
But, in the real applications, I am inserting multiple documents similar to that.
This consoleLog :
console.log('documentsInserted: ', documentsInserted);
logs:
documentsInserted: [ { _id: 5d3453afc302d718e4870b53,
REF: 'REFSHIT',
confFin: 'A',
confRep: 'A'}]
As you see the id is automatically generated:
> _id: 5d3453afc302d718e4870b53
What I would like is: The ids of the different documents to be "numerically ordered". I.e:
Document 0 would have id 0
Document 1 would have id 1
Document 2 would have id 2
And so on and so forth.
After having made some research, I found out that I can do this manually by inserting the id manually inside the updateMany objects.
However, since I receive the documents objects from the request body, this is not a viable solution.
Any help?

Answer 1

Finally after trying four modules and a couple of days of trying for something that should be native to mongodb, I have found a simple solution. I hope it helps someone.
1/ Install mongoose-plugin-autoinc
2/
import mongoose from 'mongoose';
import { autoIncrement } from 'mongoose-plugin-autoinc';
const connection = mongoose.createConnection("mongodb://localhost/myDatabase");
const BookSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
author: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Author' },
title: String,
genre: String,
publishDate: Date
});
BookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement, 'Book');
const Book = connection.model('Book', BookSchema);
2/ In my case I have the models defined in models.js and the connection defined in server.js so I had to write this :
BookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement, 'Book');
in models.js
and instead of
const Book = connection.model('Book', BookSchema);
I have:
module.exports = {
informationAssetsRow: mongoose.model('informationAssetsRow', informationAssetsRow),
};
And in server.js:
const {
informationAssetsRow,
} = require('./models/models')