Save Or Update Mongoose

Question

Is there a nice way of either saving, or updating a document in mongoose? Something like what I'm after below

 let campaign = new Campaign({
        title: req.body.title,
        market: req.body.market,
        logo: req.body.logo,
        additional_question_information: question,
        status: status
    });

 campaign.saveOrUpdate().then(function() { ... }

Thanks for the help all

Answer 1

I think what you're looking for is called an 'upsert'.

You can do this by using findOneAndUpdate and passing the { upsert: true } option, something like the below example:

let campaign = new Campaign({
        title: req.body.title,
        market: req.body.market,
        logo: req.body.logo,
        additional_question_information: question,
        status: status
    });

Campaign.findOneAndUpdate({
    _id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId('CAMPAIGN ID TO SEARCH FOR')
}, campaign, { upsert: true }, function(err, res) {
    // Deal with the response data/error
});

The first parameter to findOneAndUpdate is the query used to see if you're saving a new document or updating an existing one. If you want to return the modified document in the response data then you can also add the { new: true } option.

Documentation here for findOneAndUpdate: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#model_Model.findOneAndUpdate