After checking out the official documentation, I am still not sure on how to create methods for use within mongoose to create & update documents.
So how can I do this?
I have something like this in mind:
mySchema.statics.insertSomething = function insertSomething () {
return this.insert(() ?
}
Methods are used to to interact with the current instance of the model. Example:
var AnimalSchema = new Schema({
name: String
, type: String
});
// we want to use this on an instance of Animal
AnimalSchema.methods.findSimilarType = function findSimilarType (cb) {
return this.find({ type: this.type }, cb);
};
var Animal = mongoose.model('Animal', AnimalSchema);
var dog = new Animal({ name: 'Rover', type: 'dog' });
// dog is an instance of Animal
dog.findSimilarType(function (err, dogs) {
if (err) return ...
dogs.forEach(..);
})
Statics are used when you don't want to interact with an instance, but do model-related stuff (for example search for all Animals named 'Rover').
If you want to insert / update an instance of a model (into the db), then methods are the way to go. If you just need to save/update stuff you can use the save function (already existent into Mongoose). Example:
var Animal = mongoose.model('Animal', AnimalSchema);
var dog = new Animal({ name: 'Rover', type: 'dog' });
dog.save(function(err) {
// we've saved the dog into the db here
if (err) throw err;
dog.name = "Spike";
dog.save(function(err) {
// we've updated the dog into the db here
if (err) throw err;
});
});
From inside a static method, you can also create a new document by doing :
schema.statics.createUser = function(callback) {
var user = new this();
user.phone_number = "jgkdlajgkldas";
user.save(callback);
};