Meteor, One to Many Relationship & add field only to client side collection in Publish?

Question

Can anyone see what may be wrong in this code, basically I want to check if a post has been shared by the current logged in user AND add a temporary field to the client side

Answer 1

Personally, I'd go about this a very different way, by using the $in operator, and keeping an array of postIds or shareIds in the records.

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/query/in/

I find publish functions work the best when they're kept simple, like the following.

Meteor.publish('posts', function() {
    return Posts.find();
});
Meteor.publish('sharedPosts', function(postId) {
    var postRecord = Posts.findOne({_id: postId});
    return Shares.find{{_id: $in: postRecord.shares_array });
});