Sails js find() finding non-existing users - find

Question

I'm trying to build a simple server in SailsJS and encountered a problem: I send a POST request to the service in Sails, and I always get a 200 response, even when there's no matching user in the on-disk DB.
My model:
module.exports = {
attributes: {
name: { type: "string" },
lastName: { type: "string" }
}
};
My routes file:
module.exports.routes = {
'post /authTest' : 'UserController.testingAuth'
};
My controller:
module.exports = {
testingAuth : function(req, res) {
var temp = req.param("name");
sails.log(temp);
User.find({ name: 'testing123' }).exec(function(err, user) {
if (err) {
sails.log("inside err block");
return res.serverError(err);
}
sails.log("skipped err block");
return res.json(user);
})
}
};
The way I call the service:
var testUser = { name: 'notMyName', lastName: 'myLastName' };
$http.post("http://localhost:1337/authTest", testUser);
Then on the SailsJS console I see:
debug: notMyName
debug: skipped err block
My local DB has just the following though (localDiskDb.db in .tmp):
{
"data": {
"passport": [],
"user": [
{
"name": "myName",
"lastName": "myLastName",
"createdAt": "2017-11-18T17:26:13.609Z",
"updatedAt": "2017-11-18T17:26:13.609Z",
"id": 1
}
]
},
// some schema stuff, irrelevant here
}
Can someone see anything wrong here? The service receives the posted request object fine, searches for a user that is not in the DB, but finds one anyway?

Answer 1

Check this out:
User.find({ name: 'testing123' }).exec(function(err, user) {
if (err) {
sails.log("inside err block");
return res.serverError(err);
}
sails.log("skipped err block");
return res.json(user);
})
to
User.findOne({ name: 'testing123' }).exec(function(err, user) {
if (err) {
sails.log("inside err block");
return res.serverError(err);
} else if(user){
// user found here
return res.json(user);
} else {
//no user found
return res.json(null);
}
})
If you want to stick with find():
User.find({ name: 'testing123' }).exec(function(err, users) {
if (err) {
sails.log("inside err block");
return res.serverError(err);
} else if(users.length == 0) {
//users is empty array of results
return res.json(users)
} else {
//users is array of N records with criteria 'testing123' in field 'name'
return res.json(users);
}
})