Reputation: 351
I have the Meteor.users collection. users have an attribute called “lastQuestionAnswered”, which is the questionId of the last question that the user has answered.
{ "_id" : "jrCJiuo7eprNFKfLG",
"name" : "Elon Musk",
"lastQuestionAnswered" : 1 }
How do I extract the value of the lastQuestionAnswered attribute (of the current user) into a variable? So that in the end we have
Var lastAnsweredQuestionId = ???
I am trying to do this server-side. I have looked at related questions but could not find any hints. Thanks in advance for your help.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 376
Reputation: 1049
In order to get current user on client side you need to use Meteor.user()
method. So your code will look like:
var lastAnsweredQuestionId = Meteor.user().lastQuestionAnswered;
It will work on client side or in methods on server side (if user is logged in).
UPDATE
If you need to get same result in publish function you need a bit different approach because Meteor.user()
doesn't work in publishers:
var currentUser = Meteor.users.findOne({_id: this.userId});
var lastAnsweredQuestionId = currentUser.lastQuestionAnswered;
Upvotes: 2