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

This method works best for me , This example creates dynamic collection for each users , each collection will hold only corresponding users information (login details), first declare the function dynamicModel in separate file : example model.js

/* model.js */
'use strict';

var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
  Schema = mongoose.Schema;


  function dynamicModel(suffix) {
      var addressSchema = new Schema(
          {
               "name" : {type: String, default: '',trim: true},
               "login_time" : {type: Date},
               "location" : {type: String, default: '',trim: true},
          }
  );

     return mongoose.model('user_' + suffix, addressSchema);

  }

module.exports = dynamicModel;

In controller File example user.js,first function to create dynamic collection and second function to save data to a particular collection

/* user.js */
var  mongoose = require('mongoose'),

function CreateModel(user_name){//function to create collection , user_name  argument contains collection name

  var Model  = require(path.resolve('./model.js'))(user_name);

}

function save_user_info(user_name,data){//function to save user info , data argument contains user info
     var UserModel  = mongoose.model(user_name) ;
     var usermodel  = UserModel(data);
              usermodel.save(function (err) {

               if (err) {
                  console.log(err);
                } else {
                 console.log("\nSaved");
                }
           });
}