Meteor returns invalid hexadecimal string error trying to create ObjectID?

Question

I\'m inserting some stuff into the database and updating it elsewhere using jQuery (give me a break, I\'m new), after which I need to be able to click it and display some UI

Answer 1

By default, Meteor doesn't use Mongo's hexadecimal object IDs. You could either tell Meteor to use Mongo style IDs by passing {idGeneration: 'MONGO'} into new MongoCollection(), or (probably more easily) just use newMessageID instead of new Mongo.ObjectID(newMessageID), if the value of newMessageID is the _id returned by insert().