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Mitch Kurtz
Mitch Kurtz

Reputation: 13

Object not being parsed in ejs file

I'm building a movie database with MongoDB, node.js, and express. I have two routes currently, one that renders a page that displays all of the movies in the database, and another that displays information for an individual movie. The problem is when rendering the page for each individual movie with ejs, I am not able to parse the object that is passed, which holds things like the title, the year, and a few arrays of images.

When rendering the all movies page, I am able to parse the object and display it with ejs. So I am not sure what the difference between the two routes is.

Schema for Movie

const movieSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
date: String,
production: String,
cast: String,
remarks: String,
lobbyCards: Array,
filmStills: [
    {
        url: String,
        caption: String
    }
],
behindStills: [
    {
        url: String,
        caption: String
    }
],
advertising: [
    {
        url: String,
        caption: String
    }
]

});

Here are the two routes:

All Movies

app.get('/movies', (req, res) => {
movie.find({}, (err, movies) => {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    } else {
        res.render('movies', { movies: movies });

        // console.log(movies);
    }
});

});

Individual Movie

app.get('/movies/:name', (req, res) => {
movie.find({ name: req.params.name }, (err, movieData) => {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    } else {
        res.render('show', { movieData: movieData });
    }
});

});

If I console.log(movieData) it is logged as an array.

All Films Ejs file

Individual Film Ejs file

This is what renders from the All films page All films

This is what renders from the Individual Film Page Individual film

Upvotes: 1

Views: 300

Answers (1)

eol
eol

Reputation: 24555

If you want to get a single document from the db, you probably want to use:

movie.findOne({ name: req.params.name }, (err, movieData) => { ... }

With .find() an array is returned even when only one document matches the query which is why the movie object cannot be displayed in your ejs.

Upvotes: 3

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