I am very new to Node.js and MongoDB and am trying to piece together my own blogging application. I have a problem trying to query through my 'Blog' model for ones with a specific username. When I try to run:
var userBlogs = function(username) {
ub = Blog.find({author: username}).toArray();
ub = ub.reverse();
};
I get an error:
TypeError: Object #<Query> has no method 'toArray'
I know globals are bad but I've just been trying to get it to work. The Mongo documentation claims that a cursor is returned which can have the toArray() method called on it. I have no idea why it won't work.
Here is my schema/model creation:
var blogSchema = mongoose.Schema({
title: {type:String, required: true},
author: String,
content: {type:String, required: true},
timestamp: String
});
var Blog = mongoose.model('Blog', blogSchema);
Here are the /login and /readblog requests
app.get('/readblog', ensureAuthenticated, function(req, res) {
res.render('readblog', {user: req.user, blogs: ub})
})
app.get('/login', function(req, res){
res.render('login', { user: req.user, message: req.session.messages });
});
app.post('/login',
passport.authenticate('local', { failureRedirect: '/login'}),
function(req, res) {
userBlogs(req.user.username);
res.redirect('/');
});
});
The end result is supposed to work with this Jade:
extends layout
block content
if blogs
for blog in blogs
h2= blog[title]
h4= blog[author]
p= blog[content]
h4= blog[timestamp]
a(href="/writeblog") Write a new blog
How can I get the query to output an array, or even work as an object?