Mongoose Difficulty in displaying time stamps - node.js

Question

I have been Recently Working on Mongoose To connect with the MongoDB with Node application.
I have Used Schemas to build the model and set the timestamps to true.
But When i try to run the node application it displays a very long message and the time stamps are empty in the terminal but displays when copied and pasted in text editor.
I want the output to be short to only display the documents available in my collection.
Here is My code
index.js file
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Dishes = require('./models/dishes')
const url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/conFusion';
const connect = mongoose.connect(url);
connect.then((db) => {
console.log('Connected correctly to server');
Dishes.create({
name: 'Uthapizzas',
description: 'Test'
})
.then((dish) => {
console.log(dish);
return Dishes.findByIdAndUpdate(dish._id,{
$set: { description: 'Updated Test'}
},{
new: true//return the updated dish
}).exec();
})
.then((dish) => {
console.log(dish);
dish.comments.push({
rating: 5,
comment: 'I\'m getting a sinking feeling!',
author: 'Leonardo di Carpaccio'
});
return dish.save();
})
.then((dish) => {
console.log(dish);
return Dishes.remove({});
})
.then(() => {
return mongoose.connection.close();
})
.catch((err) => {
console.log(err);
});
dishes.js file
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;
const commentSchema = new Schema({
rating: {
type: Number,
min: 1,
max: 5,
required: true
},
comment: {
type: String,
required: true
},
author:{
type: String,
required: true
}
}, {
timestamps: true
});
const dishSchema = new Schema({
name: {
type: String,
required: true,
unique: true
},
description: {
type: String,
required: true
},
comments:[commentSchema]
},
{
timestamps: true
}
);
var Dishes = mongoose.model('Dish', dishSchema);
module.exports = Dishes;
Here is My output
<ref *1> model {
'$__': InternalCache {
strictMode: true,
selected: undefined,
shardval: undefined,
saveError: undefined,
validationError: undefined,
adhocPaths: undefined,
removing: undefined,
inserting: true,
saving: undefined,
version: undefined,
getters: {},
_id: 63563fab8405ad299448f321,
populate: undefined,
populated: undefined,
wasPopulated: false,
scope: undefined,
activePaths: StateMachine {
paths: [Object],
states: [Object],
stateNames: [Array],
map: [Function (anonymous)]
},
pathsToScopes: {},
session: null,
ownerDocument: undefined,
fullPath: undefined,
emitter: EventEmitter {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: 0,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
'$options': {}
},
isNew: false,
errors: undefined,
_doc: {
_id: 63563fab8405ad299448f321,
name: 'Uthapizzas',
description: 'Test',
comments: CoreMongooseArray(0) [
_path: 'comments',
toBSON: [Function: toBSON],
_atomics: {},
_parent: [Circular *1],
_cast: [Function: _cast],
_markModified: [Function: _markModified],
_registerAtomic: [Function: _registerAtomic],
'$__getAtomics': [Function: $__getAtomics],
hasAtomics: [Function: hasAtomics],
_mapCast: [Function: _mapCast],
push: [Function: push],
nonAtomicPush: [Function: nonAtomicPush],
'$pop': [Function: $pop],
pop: [Function: pop],
'$shift': [Function: $shift],
shift: [Function: shift],
pull: [Function: pull],
splice: [Function: splice],
unshift: [Function: unshift],
sort: [Function: sort],
addToSet: [Function: addToSet],
set: [Function: set],
toObject: [Function: toObject],
inspect: [Function: inspect],
indexOf: [Function: indexOf],
remove: [Function: pull],
id: [Function: id],
create: [Function: create],
notify: [Function: notify],
isMongooseDocumentArray: true,
validators: [],
_schema: [DocumentArray],
_handlers: [Object]
],
createdAt: 2022-10-24T07:32:59.266Z,
updatedAt: 2022-10-24T07:32:59.266Z,
__v: 0
}
}
<ref *1> model {
'$__': InternalCache {
strictMode: true,
selected: {},
shardval: undefined,
saveError: undefined,
validationError: undefined,
adhocPaths: undefined,
removing: undefined,
inserting: undefined,
saving: undefined,
version: undefined,
getters: {},
_id: 63563fab8405ad299448f321,
populate: undefined,
populated: undefined,
wasPopulated: false,
scope: undefined,
activePaths: StateMachine {
paths: [Object],
states: [Object],
stateNames: [Array]
},
pathsToScopes: {},
session: undefined,
ownerDocument: undefined,
fullPath: undefined,
emitter: EventEmitter {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: 0,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
'$options': { skipId: true, isNew: false, skipDefaults: [Object] }
},
isNew: false,
errors: undefined,
_doc: {
_id: 63563fab8405ad299448f321,
name: 'Uthapizzas',
description: 'Updated Test',
comments: CoreMongooseArray(0) [
_path: 'comments',
toBSON: [Function: toBSON],
_atomics: {},
_parent: [Circular *1],
_cast: [Function: _cast],
_markModified: [Function: _markModified],
_registerAtomic: [Function: _registerAtomic],
'$__getAtomics': [Function: $__getAtomics],
hasAtomics: [Function: hasAtomics],
_mapCast: [Function: _mapCast],
push: [Function: push],
nonAtomicPush: [Function: nonAtomicPush],
'$pop': [Function: $pop],
pop: [Function: pop],
'$shift': [Function: $shift],
shift: [Function: shift],
pull: [Function: pull],
splice: [Function: splice],
unshift: [Function: unshift],
sort: [Function: sort],
addToSet: [Function: addToSet],
set: [Function: set],
toObject: [Function: toObject],
inspect: [Function: inspect],
indexOf: [Function: indexOf],
remove: [Function: pull],
id: [Function: id],
create: [Function: create],
notify: [Function: notify],
isMongooseDocumentArray: true,
validators: [],
_schema: [DocumentArray],
_handlers: [Object]
],
createdAt: 2022-10-24T07:32:59.266Z,
updatedAt: 2022-10-24T07:32:59.287Z,
__v: 0
},
'$init': true
}
<ref *1> model {
'$__': InternalCache {
strictMode: true,
selected: {},
shardval: undefined,
saveError: undefined,
validationError: undefined,
adhocPaths: undefined,
removing: undefined,
inserting: false,
saving: undefined,
version: undefined,
getters: {},
_id: 63563fab8405ad299448f321,
populate: undefined,
populated: undefined,
wasPopulated: false,
scope: undefined,
activePaths: StateMachine {
paths: [Object],
states: [Object],
stateNames: [Array],
map: [Function (anonymous)]
},
pathsToScopes: { comments: [Circular *1] },
session: undefined,
ownerDocument: undefined,
fullPath: undefined,
emitter: EventEmitter {
_events: [Object: null prototype],
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: 0,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
'$options': { skipId: true, isNew: false, skipDefaults: [Object] }
},
isNew: false,
errors: undefined,
_doc: {
_id: 63563fab8405ad299448f321,
name: 'Uthapizzas',
description: 'Updated Test',
comments: CoreMongooseArray(1) [
[EmbeddedDocument],
_path: 'comments',
toBSON: [Function: toBSON],
_atomics: {},
_parent: [Circular *1],
_cast: [Function: _cast],
_markModified: [Function: _markModified],
_registerAtomic: [Function: _registerAtomic],
'$__getAtomics': [Function: $__getAtomics],
hasAtomics: [Function: hasAtomics],
_mapCast: [Function: _mapCast],
push: [Function: push],
nonAtomicPush: [Function: nonAtomicPush],
'$pop': [Function: $pop],
pop: [Function: pop],
'$shift': [Function: $shift],
shift: [Function: shift],
pull: [Function: pull],
splice: [Function: splice],
unshift: [Function: unshift],
sort: [Function: sort],
addToSet: [Function: addToSet],
set: [Function: set],
toObject: [Function: toObject],
inspect: [Function: inspect],
indexOf: [Function: indexOf],
remove: [Function: pull],
id: [Function: id],
create: [Function: create],
notify: [Function: notify],
isMongooseDocumentArray: true,
validators: [],
_schema: [DocumentArray],
_handlers: [Object]
],
createdAt: 2022-10-24T07:32:59.266Z,
updatedAt: 2022-10-24T07:32:59.308Z,
__v: 1
},
'$init': true
}
Can You Please Help me in resolving this issue.
Why i am getting this much lines of output and why my time stamps are not displaying in the output(They are Displaying when copied) and the output looks very clumsy.
I only need the output which document i have inserted into the database and need the time stamps.
I am not able to access the time stamps also.
I am using mongo v5
Thank you in advance!!

Answer 1

You should log your plaing javascript object, not the document. In order to do this, you should call console.log(dish.toJSON()).