thanks in advance for your time and answers:
I've been trying to do something that "should" be easy but it's being me crazy.
the objective is to asign the result of a function to a variable that i can use later on a POST to send information to my MongoDB.
I've a model with a document as:
{ "__v" : 0, "_id" : ObjectId("54ad1aa637ce5c566c13d18f"), "num" : 9 }
What i want is to capture this number "num" : 9 to a variable. I created a function that query the mongodb through the model.
function getNum(){
var Num = require('./models/num.js');
var callback = function(){
return function(err, data) {
if(err) {
console.log("error found: " + err);
}
console.log("the number is: " + data.num);
}
};
return Num.findOne({}, callback());
};
then just to test i assign that function to a variable and try to console.log it just to test if the result is fine.
// =====================================
// TESTING ==============================
// =====================================
app.get('/testing',function(req, res, next){
var a = getNum();
console.log(a);
});
My output is:
{ _mongooseOptions: {},
mongooseCollection:
{ collection:
{ db: [Object],
collectionName: 'num',
internalHint: null,
opts: {},
slaveOk: false,
serializeFunctions: false,
raw: false,
pkFactory: [Object],
serverCapabilities: undefined },
opts: { bufferCommands: true, capped: false },
name: 'num',
conn:
{ base: [Object],
collections: [Object],
models: [Object],
config: [Object],
replica: false,
hosts: null,
host: 'localhost',
port: 27017,
user: undefined,
pass: undefined,
name: 'project',
options: [Object],
otherDbs: [],
_readyState: 1,
_closeCalled: false,
_hasOpened: true,
_listening: true,
_events: {},
db: [Object] },
queue: [],
buffer: false },
model:
{ [Function: model]
base:
{ connections: [Object],
plugins: [],
models: [Object],
modelSchemas: [Object],
options: [Object] },
modelName: 'Num',
model: [Function: model],
db:
{ base: [Object],
collections: [Object],
models: [Object],
config: [Object],
replica: false,
hosts: null,
host: 'localhost',
port: 27017,
user: undefined,
pass: undefined,
name: 'project',
options: [Object],
otherDbs: [],
_readyState: 1,
_closeCalled: false,
_hasOpened: true,
_listening: true,
_events: {},
db: [Object] },
discriminators: undefined,
schema:
{ paths: [Object],
subpaths: {},
virtuals: [Object],
nested: {},
inherits: {},
callQueue: [Object],
_indexes: [],
methods: {},
statics: {},
tree: [Object],
_requiredpaths: undefined,
discriminatorMapping: undefined,
_indexedpaths: undefined,
options: [Object],
_events: {} },
options: undefined,
collection:
{ collection: [Object],
opts: [Object],
name: 'num',
conn: [Object],
queue: [],
buffer: false } },
op: 'findOne',
options: {},
_conditions: {},
_fields: undefined,
_update: undefined,
_path: undefined,
_distinct: undefined,
_collection:
{ collection:
{ collection: [Object],
opts: [Object],
name: 'num',
conn: [Object],
queue: [],
buffer: false } },
_castError: null }
**the number is: 9**
This is one of the results i can get in other aproaches i get undefined.
Can anyone wonder what can i do to solve this?
Again thanks for your help.