meteor-collection2-common

Some simple reusable schema definitions for aldeed:collection2 / aldeed:simple-schema.

Installation

meteor add fongandrew:collection2-common

Fields

In the list below, attrs param is an object containing additional keys to add to our field definition.

CommonFields.autoId(attrs) - Field which automatically populates with a 17-character Meteor-style random _id.

CommonFields.idField(attrs, length) - Field for validating a Meteor-style _id. Length defaults to 17 characters.

CommonFields.createdOn(attrs) - Timestamp for document creation

CommonFields.updatedOn(attrs) - Timestamp for document update

CommonFields.stateVerifier(attrs) - Random string for each time field is updated, useful for ensuring that we don't clobber something we don't intend to because of Mongo's lack of built-in transactions

CommonFields.isActive(attrs) - Boolean that gets set to true every time this document is updated.

CommonFields.autoBool(defaultValue, attrs) - Sets a default bool at creation and no other time

CommonFields.rank(attrs) - Generates an autoValue decimal number based on the current time. Useful if you want a modifiable "rank" for sorting purposes that's loosely tied to creation time.

CommonFields.autoInc(attrs) - An auto-incrementing number on each update (starts @ 1, not 0) -- you can disable by passing an explicitly falsey value. Field will not increment but stay at whatever it previously was.