Question

I have MongooseJS schema as follow:

var UserSchema = new Schema({
    name            : String,
    app_key         : String,
    app_secret      : String,
    tasks           : [{ type   : Schema.ObjectId, 
                            ref : 'Task'}]
})

var ActionSchema = new Schema({
    name            : String,
    description     : String,
    module          : String
})

var enumTaskState = ['New', 'Indexing', 'Idle', 'In Queue', 'Working'];
var TaskSchema = new Schema({
    name            : String,
    lastPerformed   : Date,
    folder          : String,
    actions         : [{type    : Schema.ObjectId, 
                        ref     : 'Task'}],
    user            : { type    : Schema.ObjectId, 
                        ref     : 'User'},
    status          : { type    : String,
                        enum    : enumTaskState,
                        default : 'New'}
})

Problem is, when I set a task’s user, do I manually have to go to the user and add a task there too? This seems like extra work (redundancy), is there an option in mongoosejs that will allow me to specify the relations it will handle everything by itself?
Thanks.

Answer 1

MongoDB is not a relational database, it is a document based based database.

You can get a user’s list of tasks by querying the TaskSchema and looking for the user you want. Just make sure to add an index so it will be a fast query:

user: {type: Schema.ObjectId, ref: 'User', index: true}