Remove mongo document by id in Sails-mongo not working

Question

I have objId($oid) of the document and I am trying to remove the document in Sails by using destroy function

User.destroy({id:objId}).exec(cb);

It is not working. I tried suggestion from other post. But it does not work either.I tried using Mongo ObjectId function too but it does not work either. Any suggestions. I can use native function but prefer not to.

Can you provide any more information, such as an error received? Try `User.destroy(objId).exec(function(err, destroyed){ if(err) {...} else {...} });` — , Dec 17 '15 at 17:45
@metzuda I tried User.findOne(objId).exec(function(e,r){console.log(e,r)}) to see if passing just objId works. Does not show any error. Prints null and undefined. — Spatil, Dec 22 '15 at 10:13
if `r` is returning undefined then that usually means it doesn't exist in the database. — , Dec 22 '15 at 10:16
Objid I am trying to query does exist. I tried User.find({id:User.mongo.objectId(objId)}).exec(function(e,r){console.log(r)). It returns entire user collection instead of specific user. Do I have to use _id? — Spatil, Dec 22 '15 at 15:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '16 at 13:09

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In your model try to change the type of id as objectid and hope it works

module.exports={
    id : {
       type : objectid
    }
}

answered Dec 15 '16 at 13:09

selftaught91

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '17 at 11:35

To use ObjectId in any operation with mongoDb , you can try to load the native lib first as this example

var ObjectId = require('mongodb').ObjectID;

User.native(function (err, collection) { collection.update({_id: new ObjectId(anIdVariable)},{$push:{pubs:aPubsVariable}}, function (err) { });

Works for me also to remove document :

collection.deleteOne({ _id :ObjectId("5920263cce3510410d492489") }, function(err, result) { }

Remove mongo document by id in Sails-mongo not working

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