Dynamically create collection with Mongoose

Question

I want to give users the ability to create collections in my Node app. I have really only seen example of hard coding in collections with mongoose. Anyone know if its poss

Answer 1

I believe that this is a terrible idea to implement, but a question deserves an answer. You need to define a schema with a dynamic name that allows information of 'Any' type in it. A function to do this may be a little similar to this function:

var establishedModels = {};
function createModelForName(name) {
    if (!(name in establishedModels)) {
        var Any = new Schema({ any: Schema.Types.Mixed });
        establishedModels[name] = mongoose.model(name, Any);
    }
    return establishedModels[name];
}

Now you can create models that allow information without any kind of restriction, including the name. I'm going to assume an object defined like this, {name: 'hello', content: {x: 1}}, which is provided by the 'user'. To save this, I can run the following code:

var stuff = {name: 'hello', content: {x: 1}}; // Define info.
var Model = createModelForName(name); // Create the model.
var model = Model(stuff.content); // Create a model instance.
model.save(function (err) { // Save
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
});

Queries are very similar, fetch the model and then do a query:

var stuff = {name: 'hello', query: {x: {'$gt': 0}}}; // Define info.
var Model = createModelForName(name); // Create the model.
model.find(stuff.query, function (err, entries) {
    // Do something with the matched entries.
});

You will have to implement code to protect your queries. You don't want the user to blow up your db.