mongoose custom validation using 2 fields

Question

I want to use mongoose custom validation to validate if endDate is greater than startDate. How can I access startDate value? When using this.startDate, it d

Answer 1

Using 'this' within the validator works for me - in this case when checking the uniqueness of email address I need to access the id of the current object so that I can exclude it from the count:

var userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  id: String,
  name: { type: String, required: true},
  email: {
    type: String,
    index: {
      unique: true, dropDups: true
    },
    validate: [
      { validator: validator.isEmail, msg: 'invalid email address'},
      { validator: isEmailUnique, msg: 'Email already exists'}
    ]},
  facebookId: String,
  googleId: String,
  admin: Boolean
});

function isEmailUnique(value, done) {
  if (value) {
    mongoose.models['users'].count({ _id: {'$ne': this._id }, email: value }, function (err, count) {
      if (err) {
        return done(err);
      }
      // If `count` is greater than zero, "invalidate"
      done(!count);
    });
  }
}