Meteor test if Users datas = "NULL"

Question

I want to test if my currentUser have in his users collection

-> profileType: "NULL" (default value).

and if profileType != "NULL" i will redirect the user to an other template.

I don't where will be the best place to do it ?

Thanks in advance

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '15 at 15:25

Depends on the behavior you want.

onBeforeAction if you put it here, your app will wait and show your loading template while it checks this.

If you put it in a client helper you will have a noticable UI change when the data changes.

If you make a server side method then you should also utilize onBeforeAction to wait on your call to be made.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '15 at 15:30

This is a very broad question #Idls, but here's some places to start.

I want to test if my currentUser have in his users collection

-> profileType: "NULL" (default value).

Look at the Collections2 and SimpleSchema Meteor packages. Understand and implement this.

and if profileType != "NULL" i will redirect the user to an other template.

I don't where will be the best place to do it ?

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 02 '15 at 16:55

By far the simplest and quickest way is just to do it in Blaze:

{{#if profileType}}
  {{> nonNullProfileTypeTemplate}}
{{else}}
  {{> nullProfileTypeTemplate}}
{{/if}}

This takes advantage of the fact that null is false-y.

You could do it in the router too but there's little advantage to that approach in this case IMO.

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