CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascriptmongodbmeteor
bulldog_in_the_dream
bulldog_in_the_dream

Reputation: 339

Getting user's email address in Meteor publish function

I have a collection Groups with a filed that is an array of user emails. I need to access the email address of the logged in user in a publish function. The following works:

Meteor.publish("groups", function() {
  return Groups.find({emails: "[email protected]"}); 
});

Which is quite useless obviously. None of these work:

  Meteor.user().emails[0].address
  this.user.emails[0].address
  this.userId.emails[0].address

What's the correct way to access the user email address here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1193

Answers (1)

Hubert OG
Hubert OG

Reputation: 19544

Did you put the subscribe function in a reactive context? The publish function may get invoked first when the user is not yet set, in which case this.user will be null. You should check this in your publish method. Also, according to the documentation, there's just this.userId parameter available, so you need to fetch the user object yourself:

Meteor.publish('groups', function() {
  if(!this.userId) return [];
  var user = Meteor.users.findOne(this.userId);
  ... /* use user.emails[0].address to search for and return the right groups */
});

Also, wrap your subscribe function in something reactive:

Deps.autorun(function() {
  Meteor.subscribe('groups');
});

Upvotes: 5

Related Questions