Meteor - insert failed: Method not found

Question

I have a problem with my Meteor's JS file. I get this error "insert failed: Method not found" when I try to insert any data to the database and reflect on chart. I've tried fetching data directly from db that didn't work too... thanx in advance.

LinePeople = new Mongo.Collection("LinePeople");
function getRandomInt(min, max) {
    return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
}

if (Meteor.isClient) {
    console.log("in LIne Client");

    //LinePeople = new Mongo.Collection(null);

    Template.linenvd3.rendered = function() {
        var chart = nv.models.lineChart()
            .margin({left: 80})  //Adjust chart margins to give the x-axis some breathing room.
            .useInteractiveGuideline(true)  //We want nice looking tooltips and a guideline!
            .transitionDuration(350)  //how fast do you want the lines to transition?
            .showLegend(true)       //Show the legend, allowing users to turn on/off line series.
            .showYAxis(true)        //Show the y-axis
            .showXAxis(true)        //Show the x-axis
        ;

        nv.addGraph(function() {
            chart.xAxis.axisLabel('Person number').tickFormat(d3.format('d'));
            chart.yAxis.axisLabel('Age (years)').tickFormat(d3.format('d'));
            d3.select('#lineChart svg').datum(
                [{ values: LinePeople.find().fetch(), key: 'Age' }]
            ).call(chart);
            nv.utils.windowResize(function() { chart.update() });
            return chart;
        });

        Deps.autorun(function () {
            d3.select('#lineChart svg').datum(
                [{ values: LinePeople.find().fetch(), key: 'Age' }]
            ).call(chart);
            chart.update();
        });
    };

    Template.linenvd3.events({
        'click #addDataButton': function() {

            console.log(" in line addButton");

            var age = getRandomInt(13, 89);
            var lastPerson = LinePeople.findOne({}, {fields:{x:1},sort:{x:-1},limit:1,reactive:false});
            if (lastPerson) {
                console.log(" in lastPerson.. if block");
                LinePeople.insert({x:(lastPerson.x + 1), y:age});
            } else {
                console.log(" in lastPerson.. else block");
                LinePeople.insert({x:1, y:age});
            }
        },
        'click #removeDataButton': function() {
            console.log(" in line removeButton");
            var lastPerson = LinePeople.findOne({}, {fields:{x:1},sort:{x:-1},limit:1,reactive:false});
            if (lastPerson) {
                LinePeople.remove(lastPerson._id);
            }
        }
    });
}

if (Meteor.isServer) {
    console.log("in line Server");

}

Answer 1

While following the Getting Started tutorial on the official meteor.js website I've had the same problem with autopublish turned on.

Turned out the issue was I created my Tasks collection inside the imports/ folder. Thus it was not implicitly imported on the server.

I had to explicitly import it on the server to solve the issue.

server/main.js

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import '../imports/api/tasks.js';

Meteor.startup(() => {  
  // code to run on server at startup
});

As you can see the import is not used by my code but is required anyways.