Does Mongoose Actually Validate the Existence of An Object Id?

Question

I like the validation that comes with Mongoose. We are trying to figure out whether we want to use it, and put up with the overhead. Does anyone know if providing a reference to the parent collection when creating a mongoose schema, (in the child schema, specify the object id of the parent object as a field,) does this then mean that every time you try to save the document it checks the parent collection for the existence of the refereneced object id?

Answer 1

I'm doing it with middleware, performing a search of the element on validation:

ExampleSchema = new mongoose.Schema({

    parentId: {
        type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
        ref: 'Example'
    }

});

ExampleModel = mongoose.model('Example', ExampleSchema);

ExampleSchema.path('parentId').validate(function (value, respond) {

    ExampleModel.findOne({_id: value}, function (err, doc) {
        if (err || !doc) {
            respond(false);
        } else {
            respond(true);
        }
    });

}, 'Example non existent');