subdocument – Tarik Billa

Mongoose Subdocuments in Nest.js

September 6, 2023 by Tarik

I dug into the source code and learned how Schema class is converted by the SchemaFactory.createForClass method. Well so how it works? 1. Take a look at this example below: @Schema() export class Cat extends Document { @Prop() name: string; } export const catSchema = SchemaFactory.createForClass(Cat); Basically, when you do SchemaFactory.createForClass(Cat) Nest will convert the … Read more

Stop Mongoose from creating _id property for sub-document array items

September 30, 2022 by Tarik

It’s simple, you can define this in the subschema : var mongoose = require(“mongoose”); var subSchema = mongoose.Schema({ // your subschema content }, { _id : false }); var schema = mongoose.Schema({ // schema content subSchemaCollection : [subSchema] }); var model = mongoose.model(‘tablename’, schema);