Question

I have some data in MongoDB that looks like this:

{
    name: "Steve",
    location: {
        city: "Nowhere, IL",
        country: "The United States of Awesome"
    }
}

I’m using objects to organize common data structures (like locations), which in Mongoose might map nicely to Schemas. Unfortunately, they don’t appear to really work in Mongoose.

If I just embed an object, like this:

{
    name: String,
    location: {
        city: String,
        country: String
    }
}

It appears to work, but exhibits some bizarre behavior that causes problems for me (e.g. instance.location.location returns location, and subobjects inherit methods from the parent schema). I started a thread on the Mongoose list, but it hasn’t seen any action.

If I embed a Schema, like this:

{
    name: String,
    location: new Schema({
        city: String,
        country: String
    })
}

…my application doesn’t start (Schema isn’t a type supported by Mongoose). Ditto for

{
    name: String,
    location: Object
}

…which wouldn’t be ideal, anyway.

Am I missing something or do my schemas not jive with Mongoose?

Answer 1

It looks like this was a bug, it’s been fixed in Mongoose 2.0!