Skip timestamps middleware for certain updates in Mongoose

Question

My application uses Mongoose and has a schema that uses the timestamps option:

var fooSchema = new Schema({
    name: String,
}, {
    timestamps: true,
});
mongoose.model('Foo', fooSchema);

So whenever an update is written to the collection, the updatedAt property is changed to the current date. But now I would like to add some changes that should not update the updatedAt property. Some answers on Stackoverflow (example) suggested to use Foo.collection as that allegedly accesses the native MongoDB driver. So I tried this:

Foo.collection.update({ _id: someFooId }, { $set: { name: 'New Name' } });

However, that changed the updatedAt property as well.

So how can I update a document, without changing updatedAt?

Answer 1

From mongoose 5 onwards , there is timestamps option which can be passed in Model.updateOne() and model.update() to skip timestamps for this update.

Directly from docs:

[options.timestamps=null] «Boolean» If set to false and schema-level timestamps are enabled, skip timestamps for this update. Note that this allows you to overwrite timestamps. Does nothing if schema-level timestamps are not set.

For example given in the question , timestamp updates can be skipped like this ,

Foo.updateOne({ __id: someFooId },{ $set: { name: updatedName } }, { timestamps: false });

Answer 2

I just found a solution and it works perfectly to me.

mongoose.connection.db.collection('player').updateOne(
    {_id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId('56cb91sf34746f14678934ba')},
    {$set: {name: 'Test'}}
);

This query will not update the updatedAt field. Hope you still need this!