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michael
michael

Reputation: 4547

Meteor: How do you use Accounts.findUserByUsername()?

I'm looking at this as the preferred way to find users by case-insensitive username search Accounts.findUserByUsername()

But according to the docs, it's a server method, and I cannot find an example of how to call this method. I tried: 

user = Meteor.call('Accounts.findUserByUsername', 'myUserName')

and I got:

Error invoking Method 'Accounts.findUserByUsername': Method 'Accounts.findUserByUsername' not found [404]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1331

Answers (1)

James
James

Reputation: 351

You will need to create a server side method and then call it from the client. So the server side method will look something like 

Meteor.methods({
  find_by_username: function(name){
    var user = Accounts.findUserByUsername(name));
    return user;
  }
});

Then on the client side you will have to invoke the method with a call, and a callback to handle the response from the server

Meteor.call('find_by_username', 'username', find_by_username_callback)

function find_by_username_callback(error,user){
 console.log(user);
}

Upvotes: 3

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