I have tried to implement inheritance for mongoDB sub document using mongoose-schema-extend, and later with mongoose itself. The basic requirement is to define additional properties in inheriting class and get them on DB- this works fine in both approaches. The second requirement is to be able to distinguish between types- using discriminatorType and instanceOf. discriminatorType was not saved in DB using mongoose-schema-extend, only using mongoose discriminator directly. instanceOf did not work at both cases (after parentDocument.find)- the pockets seems to be Object only.
Code for mongoose-schema-extend:
var PocketSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: {type: String, unique: true , required: true}, //required - not working within array
status: {type: String , enum :['ACTIVE','RETIRED'], Default:'ACTIVE' },
limits : ['Limit']
},{ discriminatorKey : '_type' });
dbConn.model('Pocket', PocketSchema);
var CreditCardPocketSchema =dbConn.models.Pocket.schema.extend({
PAN : {type: String, required: true }
});
dbConn.model('CreditCardPocket', CreditCardPocketSchema);
var customerSchema = mongoose.Schema({
username: {type: String, unique: true, required: true } ,
password: String,
email: { type: String },
status: {type: String , enum :['REGISTERED','ACTIVE','RETIRED'] , Default:'REGISTERED'},
pockets : ['Pocket']
});
Code for mongoose with util.extend:
function PocketSchema() {
mongoose.Schema.apply(this, arguments);
this.add({
name: {type: String, unique: true , required: true},//required - not working within array
status: {type: String , enum :['ACTIVE','RETIRED'], Default:'ACTIVE' },
limits : ['Limit']
});
};
util.inherits(PocketSchema, mongoose.Schema);
var pocketSchema = new PocketSchema();
dbConn.model('Pocket', pocketSchema);
var CreditCardPocketSchema = new PocketSchema({
PAN : {type: String, required: true }
});
dbConn.models.Pocket.discriminator('CreditCardPocket', CreditCardPocketSchema);
**Code for checking instanceOf: **
exports.showPockets = function(req, res){
var username = req.params.username;
dbConn.models.Customer.findOne({username:username},function(err,user) {
if (user === null) {
res.send('user does not exist');
}else {
user.pockets[0] instanceof dbConn.models.CreditCardPocket;
user.pockets[0] instanceof dbConn.models.Pocket;
dbConn.models.Pocket.prototype.isPrototypeOf(user.pockets[0]);
dbConn.models.SVAPocket.prototype.isPrototypeOf(user.pockets[0]);
}
});
};
Is mongoose-schema-extend discriminator not working properly for sub documents? and for instanceOf -shouldn't this return true?
Thanks in advance.