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tomet

Reputation: 2566

Meteor: Modify collection on client side only

I have a server side collection to which I subscribe on the client side. The client does not have write access to the server side collection.

I would like to modify the collection on the client side only and destroy that change when I stop the subscription/move to another route.

Is that possible somehow?

Thank you for your answer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 287

Answers (1)

Peppe L-G
Peppe L-G

Reputation: 8360

I would use a transformation on the client, like this:

var Books = new Meteor.Collection('books', {
    transform: function(doc){

        /*
            A doc looks like this:
            {
                _id: "...",
                title: "A nice title..."
            }
        */

        doc.clientTitle = new ReactiveVar("")

        doc.setClientTitle = function(title){
            this.clientTitle.set(title)
        }

        doc.getTitle = function(){
            var clientTitle = this.clientTitle.get()
            if(clientTitle == ""){
                return this.title
            }else{
                return clientTitle
            }
        }

    }
})

and then use theBook.getTitle() to get the title and theBook.setTitle('The new title') to update it on the client only.

Note: ReactiveVar comes from the package reactive-var.

Upvotes: 0

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