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Pavan Kumar
Pavan Kumar

Reputation: 1891

Meteor renaming Meteor.users collection name in MongoDB

We have more than one website which points to same MongoDB. For example front facing public website, internal admin website, etc.

We would like to have different users collection for different website. Is there any way to instruct Meteor to user different collection name in actual DB while accessing users collection using Meteor.users variable.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 693

Answers (3)

Manto
Manto

Reputation: 1652

This is not tested, but from the first look, this could be a feasible way to change the name of user collection. Place this code somewhere in /lib folder:

Accounts.users = new Mongo.Collection("another_users_collection", {
  _preventAutopublish: true,
});

Meteor.users = Accounts.users;

Upvotes: 1

Elegant.Scripting
Elegant.Scripting

Reputation: 837

No, sadly this is hardcoded into the package and as Brian said, the package offers no room for customization.

However, you could very easily add a new key accountType for each document in the Meteor.users collection. accountType could specify whether that user belongs to the front facing public website, or the internal admin website.

For example, the user document:

{
  username: "Pavan"
  accountType: "administrator"
  // other fields below
}

And from there of course, you could publish specific data, or enable different parts of your website based on what accountType's value is.

For example, if I want the administrators to be able to subscribe to, and see all user information:

Meteor.publish("userData", function() {
  if (this.userId) {
    if (Meteor.users.find(this.userId).accountType === "admin") {
      return Meteor.users.find();
    } else {
      return Meteor.users.find(this.userId);
    }
  } else {
    this.ready();
  }
});

Upvotes: 1

Brian Shamblen
Brian Shamblen

Reputation: 4703

From looking at the source code it appears the collection name is hard coded in the accounts-base package. I don't see any options to set the name through code.

Meteor.users = new Mongo.Collection("users", {
      _preventAutopublish: true,
      connection: Meteor.isClient ?     Accounts.connection : Meteor.connection
});

Upvotes: 1

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