How to save particular object in mongoose schema-CodePudding

I am facing some issue here i am try to store only one object either school or college or work, but mongoose automatically create other two object.

how to omit other object. here i should use default

let mySchema = new Schema({
    "type": { type: String, default: "" },  // school or college or work
    "school": {
        'name':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'parent':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'address':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'email_id':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'phone_no':{ type: String, default: "" },
    },
    "college": {
        'name':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'friend':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'address':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'email_id':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'phone_no':{ type: String, default: "" },
    },
    "work": {
        'name':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'colleague':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'address':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'email_id':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'phone_no':{ type: String, default: "" },
    },
});

CodePudding user response：

Is something avoiding you to set this programmatically?

const myType = "school"; // Just for example

const mySchemaObj = { "type": { type: String, default: myType } };
mySchemaObj[myType] = { 
    "school": {
        'name':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'parent':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'address':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'email_id':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'phone_no':{ type: String, default: "" },
    },
    "college": {
        'name':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'friend':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'address':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'email_id':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'phone_no':{ type: String, default: "" },
    },
    "work": {
        'name':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'colleague':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'address':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'email_id':{ type: String, default: "" },
        'phone_no':{ type: String, default: "" },
    }
}[myType];

console.log(mySchemaObj);

/* Then, later...
let mySchema = new Schema(mySchemaObj);
*/

CodePudding user response：

If you check this section from Mongoose docs, you will see that Mongoose always creates an empty object for nested documents (e.g. school in your case).

You could use a subdocument instead, where school, college and work are instances of Schema.

What you can do:

const mySchema = new Schema({
  school: new Schema({
    name: { type: String },
    parent: { type: String },
    address: { type: String },
    email_id: { type: String },
    phone_no: { type: String },
  }),
  college: new Schema({
    name: { type: String },
    friend: { type: String },
    address: { type: String },
    email_id: { type: String },
    phone_no: { type: String },
  }),
  work: new Schema({
    name: { type: String },
    colleague: { type: String },
    address: { type: String },
    email_id: { type: String },
    phone_no: { type: String },
  }),
});
const MyModel = mongoose.model('MyModel', mySchema);
const myDocument = new MyModel();
myDocument.college = { name: 'Harvard' };
await myDocument.save();