NodeJS + Mongoose: Updating all fields on a Mongoose model

Question

I'm building out an api using Node, MongoDB and Mongoose. One thing that is bugging me is that you can't seem to set multiple fields at once:

app.put('/record/:id', function(req, res) {
  Record.findById(req.params.id, function(err, doc) {
    if (!err) {
      doc.update(req.params);
      doc.save();
...

However, it seems that you have to work out the update query and run it on the Model object rather than on the document object. Unless you want to assign individual properties and run save() at the end.

Is there any way of accomplishing this without having to write a Mongo query?

Answer 1

jsaak's answer is good but doesn't work for nested objects. I elaborated on his answer by searching and setting nested objects.

I added these functions to a utility.js file

var _ = require('underscore');

exports.updateDocument = function(doc, SchemaTarget, data) {
    for (var field in SchemaTarget.schema.paths) {
       if ((field !== '_id') && (field !== '__v')) {
            var newValue = getObjValue(field, data);
            console.log('data[' + field + '] = ' + newValue);
            if (newValue !== undefined) {
                setObjValue(field, doc, newValue);
          }  
       }  
    }
    return doc;
};

function getObjValue(field, data) {
    return _.reduce(field.split("."), function(obj, f) { 
        if(obj) return obj[f];
    }, data);
}

function setObjValue(field, data, value) {
  var fieldArr = field.split('.');
  return _.reduce(fieldArr, function(o, f, i) {
     if(i == fieldArr.length-1) {
          o[f] = value;
     } else {
          if(!o[f]) o[f] = {};
     }
     return o[f];
  }, data);
}

implement as:

var util = require('./utility');

app.put('/record/:id', function(req, res) {
  Record.findById(req.params.id, function(err, doc) {
    if (!err) {
      utils.updateDocument(doc, Record, req.params);
      doc.save();
    ...

Answer 2

Maybe this has changed since this question was first asked, but you can update multiple paths in Mongoose with the set method ike:

// object
doc.set({
  path  : value,
  path2 : {
    path  : value
  }
});
doc.save();

References

• http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#document_Document-set