Question

I have a MongoDb schema like this

    var User = new Schema({
    "UserName": { type: String, required: true },
    "Email": { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
    "UserType": { type: String },
    "Password": { type: String }
});

I am trying to create a new user
This is done in NodeJs using mongoose ODM
And this is the code for creating:

    controller.createUser = function (req, res) {

    var user = new models.User({
        "UserName": req.body.UserName.toLowerCase(),
        "Email": req.body.Email.toLowerCase(),
        "UserType": req.body.UserType.toLowerCase()
    });
    models.User.findOne({ 'Email': user.Email }, function (err, olduser) {
                    if (!err) {
                        if (olduser) {
                            res.send({ 'statusCode': 409, 'statusText': 'Email Already Exists' });
                        }
                        else if (!olduser) {
                            user.setPassword(req.body.Password);
                            user.save(function (err, done) {
                                if (!err) {
                                    console.log(user);
                                    res.send({ 'statusCode': 201, 'statusText': 'CREATED' });
                                }
                                else {
                                    res.send({ 'Status code': 500, 'statusText': 'Internal Server Error' });
                                }
                            });
                        }
                    }
                    else {
                        res.send({ 'statusCode': 500, 'statusText': 'ERROR' });
                    }
                });
};

The for creating new user,I am giving attributes and values as follows:

 {
"UserName": "ann",
"Email": "[e-mail]",
"UserType": "normaluser",
"Password":"123456"
}

And I am getting error like this:

{"Status code":500,"statusText":"Internal Server Error","Error":{"name":"MongoError","err":"E11000 duplicate key error index: medinfo.users.$UserName_1  dup key: { : \"ann\" }","code":11000,"n":0,"connectionId":54,"ok":1}}

I understand that this error is because UserName is duplicated ,but I haven’t set UserName with unique constraint.Whenever I add a new row,I need only email to be unique,UserName can be repeated.How to achieve this??

Answer 1

@ManseUK Is probably right, that looks like UserName is a ‘key’ – in this case an index. The _id attribute is the “primary” index that is created by default, but mongodb allows you to have multiple of these.

Start a mongo console and run medinfo.users.getIndexes()? Something must have added an index on ‘UserName’.

required: true wouldn’t do that, but you might have played with other settings previously and the index hasn’t been removed?