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bp123
bp123

Reputation: 3417

Meteor not publishing correct users

I'm trying to publish a list of users. I'm checking a collection for accoutActive: true and then fetching the studentUserId. I thought I could then use this to find the meteor.user however it returns nothing. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing.

Meteor.publish('list', function() {
  var activeStudent = StudentAccountStatus.find(
                          {"accountActive": true},
                          {fields:
                            {"studentUserId": 1}
                          }
                        ).fetch();

  return Meteor.users.find(
                    {_id: activeStudent}
                  );
});

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

cstricklan
cstricklan

Reputation: 661

Currently your activeStudent variable contains an array of objects which would look something like this:

[ { _id: 'a104259adsjf' },
  { _id: 'eawor7u98faj' },
... ]

whereas for your mongo query you just need an array of strings, i.e. ['a104259adsjf', 'eawor7u98faj', ...].

So, you need to iterate through your array of objects to construct the array of strings, like with the lodash _.map function:

var activeStudentIds = _.map(activeStudent, function(obj) {
    return obj._id;
});

Then, using the mongo $in selector you can reformulate your query as:

return Meteor.users.find(
    {_id: { $in: activeStudentIds } }
);

Upvotes: 1

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