Cannot access or use documents showing in mongo db terminal - mongodb

Question

I created a collection called Stampest that stores a reference of an uploaded image and a title string, created by a user. Using the ostrio:autoform package.This package creates a collection called Images where all the user uploaded images are stored and hense referenced to/from.
When I query mongo in my terminal using
db.stampest.find({})
I get the entries
Which shows that there are documents in the database, in the Stampest Collection. But the PROBLEM is that when I look at the collection in Meteor Toys debug, it says its empty, and when I insert a document, in this case, the image and the title, the collection changes to 1 for a split second and geos back to 0. There are no error from the terminal or console
As a consequence, I cannot access these documents, what can I do?
This is the schema.js
Schemas = {};
Stampest = new Meteor.Collection('stampest');
Stampest.allow({
insert: function (userId, doc) {
return userId;
},
update: function (userId, doc, fields, modifier) {
// can only change your own documents
return doc.userId === userId;
},
remove: function (userId, doc) {
// can only remove your own documents
return doc.userId === userId;
}
});
Schemas.Stampest = new SimpleSchema({
title: {
type: String,
max: 60
},
picture: {
type: String,
autoform: {
afFieldInput: {
type: 'fileUpload',
collection: 'Images',
// uploadTemplate: 'uploadField' // <- Optional
// previewTemplate: 'uploadPreview' // <- Optional
}
}
}
});
Stampest.attachSchema(Schemas.Stampest);
The publish is like this:
Meteor.publish('stampest', function () {
return Stampest.find({author: this.userId}).fetch();
console.log(Stampest.find());
});
The user inserts the image and the title like this:
<template name="createStamp">
<div class="grid-block">
<div class="grid-container">
<div class="upload-img">
{{file.original.name}}
</div>
<div class="new-stamp-container">
{{> quickForm collection="Stampest" type="insert" id="insertStampForm" class="new-stamp-form"}}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>

Answer 1

From what I see in your code, you are returning an Array of db items and not a Cursor in your code.
If you take a look at https://docs.meteor.com/api/pubsub.html, you'll notice that regular publications return simple cursors or array of cursors but never your fetched data.
edit: also, the console.log in your publication will never be interpreted as it returns on the previous line.