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Ayeye Brazo
Ayeye Brazo

Reputation: 3476

Update user.profile with dynamic object in Meteor

So, what I'm trying to achieve is to update the user.profile keeping the old non updated data already present in the user.profile.

So, my initial user.profile has the following:

{
  accountType: 'Student',
  xyz: 'something',
  etc...
}

And in my update method I would like to keep those values if not required to be updated, so if I wish to add the following:

{
  'xyz': 'something else',
  'bar': 'bar',
  etc...
}

I would like to see the updated profile with both object merged and updated.

What I tried to use is update and upsert but in both cases and all my tests when I try to update the user.profile the old data get completely replaced by the new data...

Here is one of my latest try:

Meteor.users.update(this.userId, {
  $set: {
    profile: data
  }
},
{ upsert: true });

but I also tried:

Meteor.users.upsert(this.userId, {
  $set: {
    profile: data
  }
});

How can I achieve what I need? Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Styx
Styx

Reputation: 10076

From the Mongo documentation:

The $set operator replaces the value of a field with the specified value.

Thus, when you're updating it as { $set: { profile: ... } } it replaces the whole profile document.

You should use it like this:

$set: {
  'profile.<field_name>': '<field_value>',
  ...
}

Here is the code to do that for your case:

const $set = {};
_.each(data, (value, key) => {
  $set[`profile.${key}`] = value;
});
Meteor.users.update(this.userId, { $set });

Upvotes: 2

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