fixture itemName/collection name must be same? about mongoose-fixture

[mgan59]

@roger-kaybus k will look into it. I remember thinking at one point that the interface seemed redundant, but there was a reason I made the decision and I think it has to do with the way mongoose works. I'll look into it and let you know.

[mgan59]

Reviewed some of the code fairly quickly. I think my intention was as follows.

A little background on Mongoosejs, by default it will take whatever 'ModelKey' you pass into Mongoose.model('ModelKey', Schema) and if you do not specify a collection name in the schema.options.collection it will attempt to generate one for you. For instance if you did Mongoose.model('Kitten', Schema) it would create a collection in mongodb called kittens.

There are problems with Mongoosejs auto-generating collection names, specifically I had an instance of the model 'Facility' which was generating facilitys which is inaccurate I wanted facilities so in my schema I set the collection option to facilities. The problem then when I ran mongoose-fixture with just a collection key of 'facilities' the Mongoose.model(...) method was incapable of finding the correct model/collection mapping. Even though the delete would work since the collection name did map correctly.

So... with that said I reviewed my project that has multiple mis-matching itemName / collection names and they work fine... I think your problem might be in setting two different values you need to map your fixture.collection to the custom collection name you define on your scheme

module.exports = function(mongoose){

    var facilitySchema = mongoose.Schema({
            internalName:{type:String},
            name:{type:String},
        },
        // extra options, this overrides the default collection name
        // that would be set by model as facilitys
        {
            collection:'facilities'   
        }
    );

    return facilitySchema;
};

Let me know if this solves your problem. Maybe I'll see what my options are for warning a client that by mis-matching itemName and Collection requires the collection to be defined on the scheme. Pretty sure I can bubble the message up.

[mgan59]

@roger-kaybus when you get a chance let me know the status and if you're all set please close the issue.

its working for me fine right now. I'll close this.