Mongo Collection Instances
This package augments Mongo.Collection (and the deprecated Meteor.Collection) and allows you to later lookup a Mongo Collection instance by the collection name.
Installation
$ meteor add dburles:mongo-collection-instances
Usage Example
1Books = new Mongo.Collection('books'); 2 3Mongo.Collection.get('books').insert({ name: 'test' }); 4 5Mongo.Collection.get('books').findOne({ name: 'test' });
API
Mongo.Collection.get('name', [options])
Returns the collection instance.
- name (String)
- options (Object) [optional]
- options.connection (A connection object)
Mongo.Collection.getAll()
Returns an array of objects containing:
- name (The name of the collection)
- instance (The collection instance)
- options (Any options that were passed in on instantiation)
Multiple connections
It's possible to have more than one collection with the same name if they're on a different connection. In order to lookup the correct collection instance, you can pass in a second argument. An object containing the connection object.
For example:
1 2connection = DDP.connect('http://localhost:3005'); 3 4Foo1 = new Mongo.Collection('foo'); // local 5Foo2 = new Mongo.Collection('foo', { connection: connection }); 6 7Mongo.Collection.get('foo') // returns instance of Foo1 8 9Mongo.Collection.get('foo', { connection: connection }); // returns instance of Foo2
License
MIT