Meteor - Reference error from publish call

Question

I'm trying to implement a search like in the thread: Meteor publish/subscribe strategies for unique client-side collections. I have wrapped the function in Meteor.startup as follows, but am still getting a reference error on the getSearchUsers function call.

Meteor.startup(function () {

    function getSearchUsers(query) {

        var re = new RegExp(query, "i");
        return Users.find({name: {$regex: re}});
    }

});

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '14 at 15:03

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It may be the variable scoping. Try to write out the method with a global variable definition:

getSearchUsers = function(query) {

    var re = new RegExp(query, "i");
    return Users.find({name: {$regex: re}});
}

answered Aug 09 '14 at 15:03

Tarang

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Thanks Akshat. I have tried this, but am getting the same error – Rhys Bartels-Waller Aug 09 '14 at 22:48
Ah the server publication needs to be wrapped in Meteor.startup too – Rhys Bartels-Waller Aug 10 '14 at 01:18
@RhysBartels-Waller it doesn't have to, but if that sorted the problem you also had an issue with file loading order. This getSearchUsers method is defined after your publish function. See http://docs.meteor.com/#structuringyourapp – Tarang Aug 10 '14 at 07:01
getSearchUsers is in /lib/search.js, so shouldn't that load first? – Rhys Bartels-Waller Aug 13 '14 at 04:13
It depends, where is the file you're running? Is it also in lib with a filename beginning with a letter less than s? – Tarang Aug 13 '14 at 12:13
The publish function call is in /server/publications.js, and getSearchUsers() is in /lib/search.js – Rhys Bartels-Waller Aug 14 '14 at 04:19
Thanks for your help so far @Akshat Any idea on what's going on? – Rhys Bartels-Waller Aug 18 '14 at 23:23

Meteor - Reference error from publish call

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