Mongoose controller cant find a method from Repository-CodePudding

I currently have my code setup in 3 files: Search.model.js, Search.repository.js, and search.controller.js.

The issue is when I send a request to the Route it reaches the controller but cannot call the function in the Repository. The code is below:

search.repository.js

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Search = require('../models/search.model');
const perPage = config.PAGINATION_PERPAGE;

const searchRepository = {
    save: async (data) => {
        console.log("Reached save in Repository");
        try {
            let record = await Search.create(data);
            if (!record) {
                return null;
            }
            return record;
        } catch (e) {
            throw e;
        }
    },
};
module.exports = searchRepository;

search.controller.js

const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const searchRepo = "../repositories/search.repository";

class SearchController  {
constructor() {}

async store(req) {
  console.log("Reached Store");
    try{
      let record = await searchRepo.save(req.body);
      if (record) {
        return { status: 200, data: {}, message: "Saved Successfully" };
      } else {
        return { status: 201, data: {}, message: "Unable to save your record. Please try again later." };
      }
    }
    catch(e){
      return { status: 201, data: {}, message: e.message };
    }
}
}
module.exports = new SearchController();

The error I get:

{
    "status": 201,
    "data": {},
    "message": "searchRepo.save is not a function"
}

CodePudding user response：

The searchRepo variable in search.controller.js is not set to the searchRepository object found in search.repository.js. Make sure to export and import that object properly. It is currently only set to a string. Instead, you could use require (ex. require({file_path}).{identifier} to import it.

CodePudding user response：

You are not importing searchRepo properly in search.controller.js file.

Instead of

const searchRepo = "../repositories/search.repository";

Do this

const searchRepo = require("../repositories/search.repository");