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yemiOdetola
yemiOdetola

Reputation: 569

MEAN - mongoose getting the full object using findById

I'm having this little issue/confusion here... I was actually able to get an individual article by their _id using findById(req.params.articleId)

my get request

router.get('/:articleId', function (req, res, next) {

    var decoded = jwt.decode(req.query.token);
    Article.findById(req.params.articleId, 'keyskeys')
    .populate('user')
    .exec( function (err, article) {
        console.log('see out article too', article)
        // if the ID is not found or invalid, return err
        if (err) {
            return res.status(500).json({
                title: 'An error occured',
                error: err
            });
        }
        // if the article was not found anyways
        if (!article) {
            return res.status(500).json({
                title: 'Article not found',
                error: { message: 'Article was not found!' }
            });
        }
          return res.json({
                success: true,
                message: 'successful :id',
                article: article,
            });
    });
});

Postman is returning 200 ok, but the data returned isn't just what I wanted its just returning the objectID whereas I need it to get the whole object of that particular Id to work with...

I'm kind of confused here, googled around, can't really get my hand on something...

postman is returning 

{
    "success": true,
    "message": "successful :id",
    "article": {
        "_id": "5b0af26a0321733524c64c91"
    }
}

its supposed to return something like

{
        "_id" : ObjectId("5b0af26a0321733524c64c91"),
        "favoritesCount" : 33,
        "title" : "jfdkjkjgfkgfkll",
        "description" : "lkfgmfglkgfklgfk",
        "body" : "klmfl,,;lvk;lggpog,gf.,gf.gl.",
        "username" : "qqqq",
        "userId" : ObjectId("5b0af2500321733524c64c90"),
        "__v" : 0
}

any help will be greatly appreciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1257

Answers (1)

Ratan Uday Kumar
Ratan Uday Kumar

Reputation: 6512

findById is a convenience method on the model that's provided by Mongoose to find a document by its _id. The documentation for it can be found here.

Example:

// Search by ObjectId
var id = "56e6dd2eb4494ed008d595bd";
UserModel.findById(id, function (err, user) { ... } );

Functionally, it's the same as calling:

UserModel.findOne({_id: id}, function (err, user) { ... });

for more information refer this Similar Question Link

Upvotes: 1

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