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A simple package to allow you to easily find documents within your collections using the _id or name field.
In your Meteor app directory:
$ meteor add fabienb4:collection-finders
Create a collection with a field to use as name (name being the default field's name, but it can be changed), and then use the findByName, findIdByName and findNameById functions to look for the wanted document.
You can specify the options you want to pass to the functions, just like you can with findOne.
However, for findIdByName and findNameById, the fields option cannot be specified. To optimize the query, only the necessary field is included (respectively, _id and name). If you speficy the fields option for any of these two functions, it will be ignored.
Items = new Mongo.Collection("items");
Items.insert({ name: "Banana" });
// { _id: "DPMaoz9PjGGcSXiBo", name: "Banana" }
Items.insert({ name: "Apple" });
// { _id: "MMn5syL6moEMWW348", name: "Apple" }
Items.insert({ name: "Orange" });
// { _id: "eyRmPSRcThPqxnRoa", name: "Orange" }
Items.findByName("Apple");
// Return: { _id: "MMn5syL6moEMWW348", name: "Apple" }
Items.findIdByName("Orange");
// Return: "eyRmPSRcThPqxnRoa"
Items.findNameById("DPMaoz9PjGGcSXiBo");
// Return: "Banana"If you want to be able to use the finders, but don't want the name field to be named name, you can overwrite the default using:
Items._nameField = "title";
// You can then do:
Items.insert({ title: "Wooden Chair" });
// { _id: "h83Qnbq2N7ZsL9dET", title: "Wooden Chair" }
Items.findByName("Wooden Chair");
// Return: { _id: "h83Qnbq2N7ZsL9dET", title: "Wooden Chair" }MIT
Anyone is welcome to contribute. Fork, make your changes (test them!), and then submit a pull request.
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