CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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LPG
LPG

Reputation: 842

Meteor CollectionFS: How to prevent duplicate files?

I can't seem to find a 'checksum' property on a CollectionFS object. I'd like to have it to prevent duplicate files from being uploaded.

Is there any best-practice approach to prevent duplicates?

Should I do it myself client side and append to the CollectionFS object? I didn't want to create another mongo collection to track the files.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 166

Answers (1)

Michel Floyd
Michel Floyd

Reputation: 20226

Best practice is normally to hash the file contents (excluding the metadata) with for example, md5, and then store the hash key with the collectionFS object itself (Once you have a document _id you can update that document with a new key). Index on the hash for quick comparison against prior documents.

Upvotes: 1

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