Mongoose.js: Find user by username LIKE value

Question

I like to to go find a user in mongoDb by looking for a user called value. The problem with:

username: \'peter\'

is that i dont find it if

Answer 1

router.route('/product/name/:name')
.get(function(req, res) {

    var regex = new RegExp(req.params.name, "i")
    ,   query = { description: regex };

    Product.find(query, function(err, products) {
        if (err) {
            res.json(err);
        }

        res.json(products);
    });

});  

Answer 2

The following query will find the documents with required string case insensitively and with global occurrence also

var name = 'Peter';
    db.User.find({name:{
                         $regex: new RegExp(name, "ig")
                     }
                },function(err, doc) {
                                     //Your code here...
              });

Answer 3

collection.findOne({
    username: /peter/i
}, function (err, user) {
    assert(/peter/i.test(user.username))
})

Answer 4

Just complementing @PeterBechP 's answer.

Don't forget to scape the special chars. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6969486

function escapeRegExp(string) {
  return string.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&');
}

var name = 'Peter+with+special+chars';

model.findOne({name: new RegExp('^'+escapeRegExp(name)+'$', "i")}, function(err, doc) {
  //Do your action here..
});

Answer 5

Here my code with expressJS:

router.route('/wordslike/:word')
    .get(function(request, response) {
            var word = request.params.word;       
            Word.find({'sentence' : new RegExp(word, 'i')}, function(err, words){
               if (err) {response.send(err);}
               response.json(words);
            });
         });

Answer 6

This is my solution for converting every value in a req.body to a mongoose LIKE param:

let superQ = {}

Object.entries({...req.body}).map((val, i, arr) => {
    superQ[val[0]] = { '$regex': val[1], '$options': 'i' }
})

User.find(superQ)
  .then(result => {
    res.send(result)})
  .catch(err => { 
    res.status(404).send({ msg: err }) })