Mongoose Schema Error: “Cast to string failed for value” when pushing object to empty array

Question

I have a strange problem and cannot figure out what the problem is. The Error-message doesn\'t help.

I\'m sending an "alarm" to the server and want to save

Answer 1

I would declare alarm as its own schema and set the alarms property as an array of alarm aka subdocuments. This will allow you to add validation to the alarm schema, etc. NOTE: Subdocuments don't get saved until the parent is saved.

var alarmSchema = new Schema({
        timestamp : Number,
        dateTime : String, //yyyymmddhhss
        difference : Number,
        actionTaken : String, //"send sms"

});

var deviceSchema = new Schema({
   deviceId: {
        type : String,
        index : {
            unique : true,
            dropDups : true
        }
    },
    alarms : [alarmSchema]
});