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alexzaizar09
alexzaizar09

Reputation: 514

How to insert an Array of Objects in Meteor WITHOUT autoform?

The example i'm goint o use here is taken from http://autoform.meteor.com/quickform

I've been using autoform for a few projects, but i need to get this same behaviour without it, how could i do an insert of an Array of objects??

So here is the Schema definition you need with autoform

 items: {
  type: Array,
  optional: true,
  minCount: 0,
  maxCount: 5
 },
   "items.$": {
      type: Object
   },
   "items.$.name": {
      type: String
   },
   "items.$.quantity": {
      type: Number
   }

Next is the call to autoform to generete the form in the template

{{> quickForm id="demo" schema=schemaFromJSON type="method" meteormethod="demoSubmission"}}

With that in place you get a form, displaying both fields: name and quantity, plus a sign for ading more objects with those same fields, and when you actually submit the form it inserts all of your objects.

The HTML and CSS is not the problem

Upvotes: 1

Views: 431

Answers (1)

imkost
imkost

Reputation: 8163

I'm not quite sure what you are asking. These are two ways of inserting arrays to collection:

// insert items one by one
// NOTE: Meteor doesn't allow inserting of arrays like `Items.insert(items)`
items.forEach(item => Items.insert(item));

// insert all items simultaneously by using raw mongo collection:
Items.rawCollection().insert(items);

Upvotes: 1

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