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How to push an object coming from postman to nested object?

I'm having a problem in pushing these data to an nested object.

Here is what I put on postman as JSON format:

    "productId":"621256596fc0c0ef66bc99ca",
    "quantity":"10"

here is my code on my controller

module.exports.createOrder =  async (data) => {


    let product = data.productId;
    let oQuantity = data.quantity
    let totAmount = data.totalAmount


    return  User.findById(product).then(user =>{
    
        user.userOrders.products.push({productId:product})
        user.userOrders.products.push({quantity:oQuantity})

        if (user) {

         return user.save().then((savedOrder,err)=>{
        if (savedOrder) {
            return user
        } else {
            return 'Failed to create order. Please try again'
        }

    })
            
        } else {

            return "try again"
        }
    })
}

my schema is:

userOrders:[
            {
            products:[
                {

                    productName:{
                        type: String,
                        required: [true, "UserId is required"]
                    },

                    quantity:{
                        type: Number,
                        required: [true, "Quantity is required"]
                    }


                }
            ],
    
            totalAmount:{
                type: Number,
                required: [true, "Quantity is required"]
            },

            PurchasedOn:{
                type: Number,
                default:  new Date()
            }
            
        }
    ]
})

i got these error on my CLI

user.userOrders.products.push({productId:product})
             ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'userOrders')

Currently i wish to just put these data from postman to the nested object but i think im not using the push use-case well. Any tips?

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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user is not found and contains null. User.findById(product) returns an empty result. The ID product can't be found in User. First, check if the user was found, then, push the products:

module.exports.createOrder = async (data) => {
  let product = data.productId;
  let oQuantity = data.quantity
  let totAmount = data.totalAmount

  return User.findById(product).then(user => {
    if (!user) {
      return "try again";
    }
    user.userOrders.products.push({productId:product})
    user.userOrders.products.push({quantity:oQuantity})

    return user.save().then((savedOrder, err) => {
      if (savedOrder) {
        return user;
      } else {
        return 'Failed to create order. Please try again';
      }
    });   
  });
};
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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