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RZKY
RZKY

Reputation: 300

Meteor Iron:Router Problems Getting ID

Can someone explain why am i getting the full value of ObjectID instead just the clean ID?

This is what i'm getting:

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And the HTML output:

<a href="/summary/ObjectID(%2254ab87a24c38814aa128da7b%22)">My Post</a>

I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. Very basic stuff right now. Just trying out Meteor for the first time.

Routing: lib/router.js

// Dashboard
Router.route('/dashboard', {name: 'dashboard'});

// Post detail
Router.route('/summary/:_id', {
    name: 'postSummary',
    data: function() {
        return Post.findOne(this.params._id);
    }
});

List page template: templates/posts/post_dashboard.html

{{#each posts}}
    <tr>
        <td>
            <p><a href="{{pathFor 'postSummary'}}">{{title}}</a></p>
            <p><small>Created at {{createdAt}}</small></p>
        </td>
        ...
    </tr>
{{/each}}

Detail page template: templates/posts/post_summary.html

<template name="postSummary">
    {{> postHeader}}

    <h3>{{title}}</h3>
</template>

Template helper: templates/posts/posts.js

Template.dashboard.helpers({
    posts: function () {
        return Post.find({});
    }
});

And here's the packages i have installed, just in case it's necessary.

meteor-platform
autopublish
insecure
matthew:foundation5-sass
iron:router
jquery
useraccounts:core
useraccounts:foundation
accounts-password
accounts-facebook
accounts-google
accounts-ui-unstyled
aldeed:autoform
aldeed:collection2
forwarder:autoform-wizard
fortawesome:fontawesome

Upvotes: 1

Views: 996

Answers (2)

MatiK
MatiK

Reputation: 573

Mongo ObjectID has a property: _str It includes string representation of the ID.

Upvotes: 0

richsilv
richsilv

Reputation: 8013

When you query the Posts collection from the console, is the _id in the returned document(s) a string literal or an ObjectId Object?

Assuming it's the latter, that's why this is happening, and if so, it's probably going to be because you've populated the collection by using insert in the Mongo shell (or alternatively restored from an existing MongoDB). By default, Meteor insert uses strings for the auto-added id when the id is not specified, whereas Mongo uses ObjectIds.

Hope that helps, but let me know if I'm on totally the wrong track!

Upvotes: 5

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