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Michael McCrickard
Michael McCrickard

Reputation: 355

Meteor: mongodb update not working

What could be wrong with this update function?

fixrecs2 = function() {

      var arr = myColl.find({ d: 1 }).fetch();

      for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {

       var code = arr[i].c;

       var rec = myOtherColl.findOne( { cc: code });

       if (rec) {

          c(rec._id)

          myOtherColl.update( {_id: rec._ID }, { $set: {dt: "ant"}  } ); 
       }

  }

console.log(i + " records processed.");
}

I have never had trouble updating my documents before in this way. Checking the output in the console, I can tell that all the records that I expect to find are there. I can see their _id values printed by console.log(). But the dt field does not get updated. In some cases, the dt field already exists, in some cases it doesn't, but update is supposed to add a field if it's not there, right?

I have tried adding a callback, but it did not seem to run. (I have not been able to find a good callback example for the update function.) In any case, according to the docs, I should get an error message in the console if update fails. I'm still running the insecure package, so there's no allow or deny rules to worry about. I'm really stumped by this!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1269

Answers (1)

Patrick McLaren
Patrick McLaren

Reputation: 988

The issue in this case, turned out to be a simple misspelling, rec._ID is not the same as rec._id. This was likely overlooked due to the common capitalization of MongoDB's ObjectID.

Upvotes: 1

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