I am trying to figure out how to display all documents user has access to but i am either getting no documents at all or undefined user.docs if person is not logged in.
In Meteor, my user has
docs: {
"xxx1",
"xxx2",
"xxx3"
}
etc (it may be limitless number of ids.
How to query mongo to find all documents that have id = user.docs? (return array of docs).
'If a person is not logged in'? I'm assuming this is server side?
Are you trying to grab 'docs' off of Meteor.user() ?
That only works on the current logged in user.
Server side mongodb query on a user:
Meteor.users.findOne({_id: '<userId string here>'},{fields: {docs: 1}});
Should give you:
{_id: '<userId string here>', docs: {...docs here...}}
Be careful with user data!
EDIT:
If you are trying to get docs that match the doc ids from a user object, you would ideally rearrange your data structure to
docs: ['docId', 'docId'] <---this may be your main problem
Then it would be:
var userDocsIds = Meteor.users.findOne({_id: '<userId string here>'},{fields: {docs: 1}});
var userDocs = Docs.find({_id: {$in: userDocsIds.docs}}).fetch();
Use the $in operator to find _ids in an array:
const docIds = Meteor.users.findOne(id).docs;
const myDocs = Docs.find({_id: {$in: docIds }});
i have tried both and ended up using
docs = getDocsForUser(user); //print array of docs
return docs.find({_id: {$in: docs}})
Related
So I have a document with an unknown number of objects in it, each with 2 properties. It's a collection of friend lists, and I'm trying to confirm if someone has a friend with a certain username before I allow a user to send a request. I'm keeping the list of friends in a subdocument, like this:
>>all the _id and other properties<<, "ownerFriends":[{"friendId":"an id goes here", "friendUsername": "username"}, {"friendId":"another id", "friendUsername":"username2"}]
I'm trying to do a query that will return username2 if given that as input, but I don't know how to do that with dot notation because I think you need to know the specific property to look for, and these are heterodox amounts of friend objects in the ownerFriends property.
If you want to select the ownerFriend object that has username as the friendUserName you can use the following selector (assuming your collection is called Friends):
Friends.find({
"ownerFriends.friendUsername": "username2"
}, {
fields: { "ownerFriends.$": 1}
});
You can find a detailed explanation of how to query an array of objects based on a property here:
http://www.curtismlarson.com/blog/2015/08/08/meteor-mongodb-array-property-selector/
In summary you have an object that contains keys, one of whose values is an array of objects. You can perform queries on the arrays using $elemMatch In your case:
MyCollection.find({ ownerFriends: { $elemMatch: { friendUsername: searchString }}});
Although I think you'll need to also query on the current user's _id. Not knowing the details of your collection, I can only speculate with:
MyCollection.find({ userId: Meteor.userId(), ownerFriends: { $elemMatch: { friendUsername: searchString }}});
I have a local collection that logs when a user has viewed an entry. It stores the ID of the entry and the time it was viewed:
viewedDate = new Date();
notifications.insert({
'viewed': this.data._id,
'viewedDate': viewedDate
});
I want to exclude any of the 'viewed' ids in this collection from another find() (I basically want to count how many entries haven't been viewed)
How can I use the results of a notifications.find() to exclude results from another find()? If I assign the notifications.find() to a variable, it returns all kinds of stuff as an object.
edit
OK, so if I use fetch() I can restrict what comes back - can I do something with this in a find()?
myNotes = notifications.find({}, {fields: {'viewedDate' :0, _id:0}}).fetch();
This returns
[
Object
viewed: "HqYcCma3qKseHALyv"
__proto__: Object
]
Thanks to some invaluable help from garilla_ in the Meteor IRC, I got it working, solution as follows:
myViewedOffers = notifications.find({},{fields: {'viewed':1}}).fetch();
myViewedArray = myViewedOffers.map(function(viewed){return viewed.viewed});
offerCount = Offers.find({_id: {$nin: myViewedArray}}).count();
Hi im trying to simply remove a document from a collection using mongoose but for some strange reason I cannot get it to work.
Here is the code:
function deleteUserevent()
{console.log('in delete User Event');
models.Userevent.remove({ _id: "5214f4050acb53fe31000004"}, function(err) {
if (!err){
console.log('deleted user event!');
}
else {
console.log('error');
}
});
}
Can anyone help me out on my syntax? I know the _id is stored as new ObjectId("5214f4050acb53fe31000004") but I have tried this with no joy?
Thanks.
In MongoDB, the "_id" field of documents is of type ObjectId, as you mentioned. This is not equal to a String, so running the query
db.userevent.remove({ _id: "5214f4050acb53fe31000004"});
will not match anything, and will not remove anything. Instead, you must search for a document where the _id field is an ObjectId with that value:
db.userevents.remove({ _id: ObjectId("5214f4050acb53fe31000004")});
In mongoose, you can use the findByIdAndRemove command to remove a document with a specific _id. This command takes either an ObjectId or a String as an argument, so
query = Userevent.findByIdAndRemove("5214f4050acb53fe31000004");
should work just fine.
Just add exec() after query.
It should work like this:
await models.Userevent.findByIdAndDelete("5214f4050acb53fe31000004").exec()
I have a process that returns a list of String MongoDB ids,
[512d5793abb900bf3e20d012, 512d5793abb900bf3e20d011]
And I want to fire a single query to Mongo and get the matching documents back in the same order as the list.
What is the shell notation to do this?
After converting the strings into ObjectIds, you can use the $in operator to get the docs in the list. There isn't any query notation to get the docs back in the order of your list, but see here for some ways to handle that.
var ids = ['512d5793abb900bf3e20d012', '512d5793abb900bf3e20d011'];
var obj_ids = ids.map(function(id) { return ObjectId(id); });
db.test.find({_id: {$in: obj_ids}});
This works fine for me in Robo 3T. No need to create any object and just use the list of ids.
db.getCollection('my_collection').find({'_id':{$in:['aa37ba96']}})
// categoryId comma separated "5c875c27d131b755d7abed86,5c875b0ad131b755d7abed81" in request
var ids= req.body.categoryId.split(',');
db.test.find({ categoryId: { $in: ids } });
If your final purpose is to get the document with the order by your pre-get ids list, you can just convert the query result into mapping(id as key, doc as value) , and then traverse the ids list to get the doc.
For this app, I'm using Node.js, MongoDB, Mongoose & Express
So I have a Param Object that contains an array of Pivots, and I want to read certain data from the pivots as outlined below
---in models.js-------------------------
var Pivot = new Schema({
value : String
, destination : String
, counter : Number
});
var Param = new Schema({
title : String
, desc : String
, pivots : [Pivot]
});
------------- in main.js --------------
var Param = db.model('Param');
app.get('/:title/:value', function(req, res){
Param.findOne({"title":req.param('title')}, function(err, record){
console.log(record.pivots);
record.pivots.find({"value":req.param('value')}, function(err, m_pivot){
pivot.counter++;
res.redirect(m_pivot.destination);
});
record.save();
});
});
I know that the code works until console.log(record.pivots), since i got a doc collection with the right pivot documents inside.
However, there does not seem to be a find method to let me match an embedded document by the 'value' property defined in the schema. Is it possible to search through this array of embedded documents using .find() or .findOne() , and if not, is there some easy way to access it through mongoose?
varunsrin,
This should do it
app.get('/:title/:value', function(req, res) {
Param.findOne({'pivots.value': req.param('value'), "title":req.param('title')}},
function(err, record) {
record.pivot.counter++;
res.redirect(m_pivot.destination);
record.save();
});
});
Note the pluralization of the query to match the field name in your schema
You can querying using embedded document properties like this:
{'pivot.value': req.param('value')}}
Update in response to comment:
app.get('/:title/:value', function(req, res) {
Param.findOne({'pivot.value': req.param('value'), "title":req.param('title')}},
function(err, record) {
record.pivot.counter++;
res.redirect(m_pivot.destination);
record.save();
});
});
I solved it temporarily using a simple for loop to parse the object array as follows:
for (var i=0; i <record.pivots.length; i++){
if (record.pivots[i].value == req.param('value')){
res.redirect(record.pivots.destination);
}
}
However, I still think that Mongoose must have a simpler way of interacting with embedded documents - and this loop is somewhat slow, especially when the number of embedded documents grows large.
If anyone has any suggestions for a faster way to search this object array either in js or with a mongoose function, please post below.
the biggest problem with this is that if your req has some fields empty (that should act as wildcard), you will not find anything since mongo tries to match empty params as well, so searching for {"user":"bob", "color":""} is not the same as {"user":"bob", "color":"red"} or {"user":"bob"}. this means that you have to first create a query object and filter out any unused parameters before you pass it in, and if you create a query object, you can no longer do something like "user.name=..." because mongo interperets this as an error since it does not first resolve the object literal into a string.
Any ideas on this problem?
ps. You'd think it would be easy enough to make an object like:
user.name="bob"; user.color:"green"; user.signup.time="12342561"
and then just use user as a query object :/
I think you are looking for the "$in" keyword?
As in:
{a: {$in: [10, "hello"]}}
source: MongoDB Queries CheatSheet