Cannot access mongoose schema attribute - node.js

Question

So... I basically search an item in the database, find it, print it fine but I can t access the attributes. When I try to print them they show undefined.
I know that the attribute are in fact undefined because it doesn t break the loop and I do have both attributes in my mongoose schema. I also tried to stringify and parse it to json back and didn t work. (this is all the material I could find)
This is the script:
const name_to_find = 'Copac';
async function myFetch(){
const express = require('express');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Item = require('./models/Item');
const mongoUrl = process.env.MONGO_URL;
const appsc = express();
var connectWithRetry = function() {
return mongoose.connect(mongoUrl, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true }, function(err) {
if (err) {
console.error('Failed to connect to mongo on startup - retrying in 3 sec', err);
setTimeout(connectWithRetry, 3000);
}
});
};
connectWithRetry();
var date1 = new Date();
while(true){
var date2 = new Date();
if(date1.getTime() - date2.getTime() > 100000)
break;
try {
const response = await Item.find({name: name_to_find});
var mergi = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(response));// doesn t work
//if (response['status'] == 1)
if(response.status == 1){
console.log("200");
break;
}
else {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response));
console.log(response.status);
console.log(mergi.name);
}
}
catch (err) {
console.error(err);
console.log(name_to_find);
}
}
}
myFetch();
this is the schema:
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;
const ItemSchema = new Schema({
status: {
type: Number,
required: true
},
name: {
type: String,
required: true
}
});
module.exports = Item = mongoose.model('item', ItemSchema);
and this is the output:
[{"_id":"60fc235414d05a001a5fa630","status":1,"name":"Copac","__v":0}]
undefined undefined
As u see, it is indeed 1 and should exit the loop but it doesn t.
nothing here helped either link.

Answer 1

Ok so the problem was that mongoose treats the result of .find() function as an array and I should have casted it with results[0] or use .findOne(). I chose the former. The answer was actually in the link provided but u have to scroll a bit for it. Tell me if u want me to delete this