add a item inside a nested schema mongoose with addToSet - node.js

Question

I know populating schemas is not a new question but I am having a little trouble following the logic on this in regards to multiple schemas. I am working with
"mongoose": "^4.8.5",
"express": "^4.15.0",
I have a schema with a collection of caffeine drinks. When a user selects a drink i would like for that drink to be assigned to the user.
** If at any point I am missing something simple in the architecture please let me know. This project has been my intro to mongodb.
I am reading through populating on the mongoose documentation http://mongoosejs.com/docs/populate.html.
Essentially, if I am to assign the drinks to the list it looks like I want to add them as a reference in an array. This was my approach with caffeine_list
const SelectedDrinks = require('./userDrinks');
const UserSchema = mongoose.Schema({
name: {
type: String
},
email: {
type: String,
required: true
},
username: {
type: String,
required: true
},
password: {
type: String,
required: true
},
caffeine_list: caffeine_list: [ // attempting to reference selected drinks
{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'SelectedDrinks'
}
]
})
SelectedDrinks comes from the schema below. I added a reference to the user as the creator below
const User = require('./user');
let userDrinkSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
creator : {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'User'
},
caffeine: Number,
mgFloz: Number,
name: String,
size: Number,
updated_at: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now()
}
});
This is where I start to get confused. I initially tried populate but could not get it going. If that was correct please let me know.
In regards to my task of adding a selected drink to the user I used addToSet. I was hoping that this would give me the drink info. I did my set up like so....
const User = require('../../models/user');
const UserDrinks = require('../../models/userDrinks');
router.post('/addDrink', (req, res, next) => {
let newDrink = new UserDrinks({
creator: req.body.creator,
caffeine: req.body.caffeine,
mgFloz: req.body.mgFloz,
name: req.body.name,
size: req.body.size,
updated_at: req.body.updated_at
});
newDrink.save( (err) => {
if(err) {
res.send(err);
} else {
User.findOne({ _id: newDrink.creator}, (err, user) => {
user.caffeine_list.addToSet(newDrink)
user.save( function (err) {
if(err) {
console.log(err);
}else {
res.status(201).json(newDrink);
}
})
})
}
})
});
However, after i do a post in postman I check caffeine_list and the result is
"caffeine_list" : [
ObjectId("58d82a5ff2f85e3f21822ab5"),
ObjectId("58d82c15bfdaf03f853f3864")
],
Ideally I would like to have an array of objects being passed with the caffeine info like so
"caffeine_list" : [
{
"creator": "58d6245cc02b0a0e6db8d257",
"caffeine": 412,
"mgFloz": 218.7,
"name": "1.95 Perfect Drink!",
"size": 42.93,
"updated_at": "2017-03-24T18:04:06.357Z"
}
]

Answer 1

Change your else part with below code instead of findOne and save use update
User.update(
{ _id: newDrink.creator},
{ $addToSet:{
caffeine_list: newDrink
}}).exec(function (err, updatedrink){
if(err) {
console.log(err);
}else {
res.status(201).json(updatedrink);
}
})

Answer 2

Although I am not sure this is the best approach I did find this to be give me the result that I was desiring. I had to make two small changes and I was able to get the caffeine_list to give me the desired response
I had to access the schema for selected drinks
const SelectedDrinks = require('./userDrinks').schema; //** need schema
Afterwards I was able to change
caffeine_list: [
{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'UserDrinks' // name of the file
}
]
to
caffeine_list: [SelectedDrinks]
Now that I have the schema I am able to add the drinks directly into the caffeine_list on the UserSchema.