In Node, Mongoose I am trying to achieve something like Laravel's created_by and updated_by columns, these 2 columns are automatically updated by the ORM in every INSERT and UPDATE operation to that particular table.
For example, below is the Material schema, here I want to store the createdBy and updatedBy column with userId whenever any user performs INSERT and UPDATE operations respectively in the materials collection.
I know this can be done while saving the records in particular controller method, but every time in every method I will have to add this and it becomes a pain, so I am looking for a solution where I can define something in the Model itself and it does the job just like the mongoose-delete package.
const mongoose = require('mongoose')
const mongoose_delete = require('mongoose-delete')
const materialSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: {
type: String,
required: true,
trim: true
},
type: {
type: String,
required: true,
enum: ['hard', 'soft'],
},
image: {
type: String,
default: null
},
active: {
type: Boolean,
default: true
},
createdBy: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'User',
default: null
},
updatedBy: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'User',
default: null
}
}, { timestamps: true })
materialSchema.plugin(mongoose_delete, { deletedAt : true, deletedBy : true, deletedByType: String })
const Material = mongoose.model("Material", materialSchema)
module.exports = Material