basically a user has properties {_id: objectid, username: string, password: string, .. etc} I send this route a json like below to change its username Assume Admin123 doesn’t exist then const foundUser would not be null because there is no user in the user collection with username Admin123. However cons…
Tag: mongoose
Does Mongoose auto cast types?
When I retrieve and modify a Lobby with this Schema it seems to automatically cast types. I could not find the documentation for that feature so I am wondering if I am mistaken something else for autocasting. I convert the types of password and owner to true or false because this is an exposed API endpoint ev…
Nest can’t resolve dependencies of the UserModel (?)
When I try to use MongooseModel on Users I am getting the following error Nest can’t resolve dependencies of the UserModel (?). Please make sure that the argument DatabaseConnection at index [0] is available in the MongooseModule context. /src/database/database.module.ts /src/database/database.provider.…
Async/await in Nodejs + Mongoose
I’m new to Promises and async/await programming and I am not sure I am getting it straight. I am creating an API in Nodejs, with Express, Mongoose and MongoDB. I have seen a lot of tutorials on how to deal with asynchronicity but all of them are about NodeJs projects where the routing and the DB query a…
How to exports many mongoose models modules in node.js
I have 2 models like this Now I want to export them. First I export Db and everything is fine. I can do an HTTP request with it. However, when I try to export ´the 2nd one outside, it stops functioning. The functions below will return a blank JSON file as a response. This won’t work either. It returns a…
How to drop index from mongodb schema using mongoose?
I’m trying to remove an index from my mongoDB collection in node.js application using mongoose. I tried using model.collection.dropIndex(“username”) but it gives me an error UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: MongoError: index not found with name [username]. Here is my Schema When I perform t…
Mongoose schema Cannot read property ‘password’ of undefined
I was trying out passport local authentication by following a tutorial. Everything seems fine but I’m getting this error when I make a request using Postman: Here is my user schema: And this is my server.js file: Here is the Passport strategy I’m using: I’ve no idea whats going wrong to be h…
MongoDB (JS), do query opperations on one document property if available, else take other property
So let’s say I have following documents in my “Request” collection: The goal is to diplay to the user a sorted list of requests by distance from his position from nearest to farest. If pickup.coords is available it should take that as position reference for follow up expressions, else take m…
Is there a way to get rid of [Object: null prototype] in GraphQL
I’m trying to make one-to-many relationship database with Mongoose and GraphQL. Whenever I insert the data to GraphQL mutation argument, I will get [Object: null prototype] error. I notice the object will have [Object: null prototype] in front of it when I tried to console.log for debug purpose. I have …
Error in creating a custom validation using mongoose with typescript
The two errors that I get when I run this code are: Property ‘bacon’ does not exist on type ‘{ type: StringConstructor; enum: string[]; required: () => any; }’ ‘required’ implicitly has return type ‘any’ because it does not have a return type annotation and i…