According to this mongodb article it is possible to auto increment a field and I would like the use the counters collection way.
The problem with that example is that I don't have thousands of people typing the data in the database using the mongo console. Instead I am trying to use mongoose.
So my schema looks something like this:
var entitySchema = mongoose.Schema({
testvalue:{type:String,default:function getNextSequence() {
console.log('what is this:',mongoose);//this is mongoose
var ret = db.counters.findAndModify({
query: { _id:'entityId' },
update: { $inc: { seq: 1 } },
new: true
}
);
return ret.seq;
}
}
});
I have created the counters collection in the same database and added a page with the _id of 'entityId'. From here I am not sure how to use mongoose to update that page and get the incrementing number.
There is no schema for counters and I would like it to stay that way because this is not really an entity used by the application. It should only be used in the schema(s) to auto increment fields.
Here is an example how you can implement auto-increment field in Mongoose:
var CounterSchema = Schema({
_id: {type: String, required: true},
seq: { type: Number, default: 0 }
});
var counter = mongoose.model('counter', CounterSchema);
var entitySchema = mongoose.Schema({
testvalue: {type: String}
});
entitySchema.pre('save', function(next) {
var doc = this;
counter.findByIdAndUpdate({_id: 'entityId'}, {$inc: { seq: 1} }, function(error, counter) {
if(error)
return next(error);
doc.testvalue = counter.seq;
next();
});
});
You can use mongoose-auto-increment package as follows:
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var autoIncrement = require('mongoose-auto-increment');
/* connect to your database here */
/* define your CounterSchema here */
autoIncrement.initialize(mongoose.connection);
CounterSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, 'Counter');
var Counter = mongoose.model('Counter', CounterSchema);
You only need to initialize the autoIncrement once.
The most voted answer doesn't work. This is the fix:
var CounterSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
_id: {type: String, required: true},
seq: { type: Number, default: 0 }
});
var counter = mongoose.model('counter', CounterSchema);
var entitySchema = mongoose.Schema({
sort: {type: String}
});
entitySchema.pre('save', function(next) {
var doc = this;
counter.findByIdAndUpdateAsync({_id: 'entityId'}, {$inc: { seq: 1} }, {new: true, upsert: true}).then(function(count) {
console.log("...count: "+JSON.stringify(count));
doc.sort = count.seq;
next();
})
.catch(function(error) {
console.error("counter error-> : "+error);
throw error;
});
});
The options parameters gives you the result of the update and it creates a new document if it doesn't exist. You can check here the official doc.
And if you need a sorted index check this doc