I want to have default values for certain fields in my mongoose models. The trick is I don’t want to store these values in the database, but what to add them when the model is initialized.
Please help.
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I want to have default values for certain fields in my mongoose models. The trick is I don’t want to store these values in the database, but what to add them when the model is initialized.
Please help.
You can define an
'init'middleware function for the schema which runs when a model instance is loaded from the database. That should let you manipulate the instance to add your defaults as needed.Also see this related question for more details as the docs are pretty spare on this.