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vonsandberg
vonsandberg

Reputation: 1

Meteor / Iron Router: Data from Mongo db collection don't show up in dynamic template page

I'm quite new in javascript programing, so I really appreciate any help.

I'm using:

Meteor (official Windows port) latest version 1.1.0.2 with Iron Router and Autopublish package

What I'm trying to do, shouldn't be hard to do, but something is missing to me. I just want to load data from Mongo DB collection

Movies = new Mongo.Collection('movies');

into my template in /client folder

<template name="movie_template">
  <p>Dynamic page test with movieID {{id}}</p>
  <h1>{{name}}</h1>
  <p>{{year}}</p>
</template>

my router.js file based in /lib folder in root of my Meteor project

Router.route('/movies/:movieId', function() {
this.render('movie_template', {
    waitOn: function() {
        return Meteor.subscribe('moviesDetails', this.params.movieId);
    },
    data: function() {
        return Movies.findOne({id: this.params.movieId});
    }
  });
});

publications.js in /server folder

Meteor.publish('movieDetails', function(movieID) {
  check(movieID, Number);
  return Movies.find({id: movieID});
});

Only one thing what I get is paragraph text without ID. What I'm doing wrong?

Side question: Do I have to use publish() function while I'm using Autopublish package? In that case just use Movies.find() instead subscribe()?

NOTE: this is my Movie object field keys.

{_id, id, name, year}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 314

Answers (1)

phunktrain
phunktrain

Reputation: 61

@below9k is correct and you should be using _id rather than id.

To answer your side question, with the autopublish package it is not necessary to do either Meteor.publish and Meteor.subscribe

Upvotes: 0

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