How to get Schema of mongoose database which defined in another model

Question

This is my folder structure:

+-- express_example |---- app.js |---- models |-------- songs.js |-------- albums.js |---- and another files of expressjs 

My code in file songs.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose') , Schema = mongoose.Schema , ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId;  var SongSchema = new Schema({ name: {type: String, default: 'songname'} , link: {type: String, default: './data/train.mp3'} , date: {type: Date, default: Date.now()} , position: {type: Number, default: 0} , weekOnChart: {type: Number, default: 0} , listend: {type: Number, default: 0} });  module.exports = mongoose.model('Song', SongSchema); 

And here is my code in file albums.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose') , Schema = mongoose.Schema , ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId;  var AlbumSchema = new Schema({ name: {type: String, default: 'songname'} , thumbnail: {type:String, default: './images/U1.jpg'} , date: {type: Date, default: Date.now()} , songs: [SongSchema] });  module.exports = mongoose.model('Album', AlbumSchema); 

How can I make albums.js know SongSchema to be defined AlbumSchema

Answer 1

You can get models defined elsewhere directly with Mongoose:

require('mongoose').model(name_of_model) 

To get the schema in your example in albums.js you can do this:

var SongSchema = require('mongoose').model('Song').schema