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Mongoose for Application Development

You're reading from   Mongoose for Application Development Mongoose streamlines application development on the Node.js stack and this book is the ideal guide to both the concepts and practical application. From connecting to a database to re-usable plugins, it's all here.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168195
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simon Holmes Simon Holmes
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Mongoose for Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Mongoose to the Technology Stack 2. Establishing a Database Connection FREE CHAPTER 3. Schemas and Models 4. Interacting with Data – an Introduction 5. Interacting with Data – Creation 6. Interacting with Data – Reading, Querying, and Finding 7. Interacting with Data – Updating 8. Interacting with Data – Deleting 9. Validating Data 10. Complex Schemas 11. Plugins – Re-using Code Index

Setting the collection name


Having a default collection name is great when you're creating an application from scratch, but what if you're using an existing database with collection names that don't match this approach?

There are two ways of specifying a different collection name

  • Using either the schema declaration, or

  • The model command

Overriding the collection name in the schema

To specify a collection name when defining a schema you need to send a second argument to the new mongoose.Schema call.

Say we have an existing collection called myuserlist that we want to use with our userSchema, the following snippet is how we would do it:

var userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({ 
  name: String,
  email: {
    type: String, unique:true
  }
},
{
  collection: 'myuserlist'
});

Overriding the collection name in the model

To specify the collection name when building a model you send a third argument to the mongoose.model command.

Using the same example as before, here's how it looks when setting the collection...

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