Uspert multiple documents with MongoDB/Mongoose - mongodb

Question

Say I have a list of models:
const documents = [{}, {}, {}];
And I want to insert these into the DB, or update them all, but only if a condition is met:
Model.update({isSubscribed: {$ne: false}}, documents, {upsert:true},(err, result) => {
});
The above signature is surely wrong - what I want to do is insert/update the documents, where the condition is met.
There is this Bulk API:
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/method/Bulk.find.upsert/
but I can't tell if it will work when inserting multiple documents.

Answer 1

Imagine this scenario: We have a list of employees and a form of some sorts to give them all a penalty, at once, not one by one :)
On the backend side, you would have your eg addBulk function. Something like this:
Penalty controller
module.exports = {
addBulk: (req, res) => {
const body = req.body;
for (const item of body) {
Penalty.create(item).exec((err, response) => {
if (err) {
res.serverError(err);
return;
}
});
res.ok('Penalties added successfully');
}
}
Then you'll probably have an API on your frontend that directs to that route and specific function (endpoint):
penaltyApi
import axios from 'axios';
import {baseApiUrl} from '../config';
const penaltyApi = baseApiUrl + 'penalty'
class PenaltyApi {
static addBulk(penalties) {
return axios({
method: 'post',
url: penaltyApi + '/addBulk',
data: penalties
})
}
}
export default PenaltyApi;
...and now let's make a form and some helper functions. I'll be using React for demonstration, but it's all JS by the end of the day, right :)
// Lets first add penalties to our local state:
addPenalty = (event) => {
event.preventDefault();
let penalty = {
amount: this.state.penaltyForm.amount,
unit: this.state.penaltyForm.unit,
date: new Date(),
description: this.state.penaltyForm.description,
employee: this.state.penaltyForm.employee.value
};
this.setState(prevState => ({
penalties: [...prevState.penalties, penalty]
}));
}
Here we are mapping over our formData and returning the value and passing it to our saveBulkEmployees() function
save = () => {
let penaltiesData = Object.assign([], this.state.penalties);
penaltiesData.map(penal => {
penal.employeeId = penal.employee.id;
delete penal.employee;
return penaltiesData;
});
this.saveBulkEmployees(penaltiesData);
}
...and finally, let's save all of them at once to our database using the Bulk API
saveBulkEmployees = (data) => {
PenaltyApi.addBulk(data).then(response => {
this.success();
console.log(response.config.data)
this.resetFormAndPenaltiesList()
}).catch(error => {
console.log('error while adding multiple penalties', error);
throw(error);
})
}
So, the short answer is YES, you can absolutely do that. The longer answer is above :) I hope this was helpful to you. If any questions, please let me know, I'll try to answer them as soon as I can.