Specify schema in mongoose

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I was wondering what the best way to define this schema is:

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Newsitem can only have 1 userID and 1 task ID. A Task can belong to many newsitems. A user can belong to many newsitems

I've searched for examples, but I'd say they are not a lot of examples. How can I do this with mongoose & mongodb ? I'd say that both User to newsitem and Task to Newsitem are one to many relations.

Just a question, which software are you using to draw the diagram? looks very nice. — Gabriel Llamas, Apr 01 '13 at 17:29
Your deleted implementation seems reasonable for me. in NewsItem you have a reference to the user, and to the task, than as @GabrielLlamas suggested populate when querying NewsItem. — balazs, Apr 01 '13 at 18:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '13 at 17:25

In Mongodb you can reference a collection within a schema so when you find() a document in newsitem mongoose does a find() in user and task, so instead of returning the newsitem document it returns the newsitem with the user and the task.

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Specify schema in mongoose

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