Mongoose create multiple documents

Question

I know in the latest version of Mongoose you can pass multiple documents to the create method, or even better in my case an array of documents.

var array = [{ type: 'jelly bean' }, { type: 'snickers' }];
Candy.create(array, function (err, jellybean, snickers) {
    if (err) // ...
});

My problem is that the size of the array is dynamic so in the callback it would be helpful to have an array of the created objects.

var array = [{ type: 'jelly bean' }, { type: 'snickers' }, ..... {type: 'N candie'}];
Candy.create(array, function (err, candies) {
    if (err) // ...

    candies.forEach(function(candy) {
       // do some stuff with candies
    });
});

Not in the documentation, but is something like this possible?

Answer 1

You can access the variable list of parameters to your callback via arguments. So you could do something like:

Candy.create(array, function (err) {
    if (err) // ...

    for (var i=1; i<arguments.length; ++i) {
        var candy = arguments[i];
        // do some stuff with candy
    }
});

Answer 2

With Mongoose v5.1.5, we can use insertMany() method with array passed.

const array = [
    {firstName: "Jelly", lastName: "Bean"},
    {firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe"}
];

Model.insertMany(array)
    .then(function (docs) {
        response.json(docs);
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        response.status(500).send(err);
    });