simpleschema-mongo

Mongo component of the SimpleSchema module.

This module provides a "mixin" to the main SimpleSchema classes. If you "mix" this constructor class with the main SimpleSchema class, you will end up with a class able to handle Mongodb-specific fields (that is, ObjectId fields ).

Driver-specific Mixins

Basic schemas work really well for any database. However, it's handy to have driver-specific schemas which take into consideration driver-specific features.

Driver-specific schemas come in the form of mixins: they are basic classes that should be "mixed in" with the main one. In order to mixin the constructor's prototypes, you will need to use SimpleDeclare - Github. See the example below on how to use it.

Functions provided

The MongoSchemaMixin overloads objects created with the following functions:

• idTypeCast() It will cast a field to Mongo's own ObjectId type. If the field is not valid, casting will fail
• makeId() Rather than using the default id creator, which by default just returns a random number, the overloaded makeId() will use Mongo's own ObjectId() function. NOTE: makeId() is available as an object method, and as a class method

A practical example

Here is a practical example on how to use MongoSchemaMixin

var Schema = require( 'simpleschema' );
var declare = require( 'simpledeclare' );
var MongoSchemaMixin = require('simpleschema-mongo')


// Mixing in Schema (the basic class) with MongoSchemaMixin
MyMongoSchema = declare( [ Schema, MongoSchemaMixin ] );

person = new MyMongoSchema({
  personId:  { type: 'id',     required: true },
  anotherId: { type: 'id',    required: true },
  name:      { type: 'string', required: true },
});

var p = { name: 'Tony', anotherId: '529955ecd03de35b0f999991' } ;
MyMongoSchema.makeId( p, function( err, id ){
  if( err ){
    console.log("Error making the id:");
    console.log( err );
  } else {
    p.personId = id;
    console.log( "MADE ID IS: ", id );
    person.validate( p, function( err, newP, errors){
      if( err ){
        console.log("Oh no!");
        console.log( err );
      } else {
        console.log("New P:");
        console.log( newP );
        console.log("Errors");
        console.log( errors);
      }
    });
  }
});