Mongoose not saving array of objects

Question

I'm newbie to mongodb Here is my schema

import mongoose, { Schema } from 'mongoose';

const SomeSchema = new Schema({

  vDocs: [{type: String , required: true,  }],
  vBelongsTo: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User' }

});

const SomeSchema = mongoose.model('BlaBla', SomeSchema);
export default SomeSchema;

mongoose is saving only simple array like ["bla", "bla"] in vDocs

but I want to save something like this [{key: val}, {key: val}] in vDocs Both are array I don't why is not working

Possible duplicate of [How to define object in array in Mongoose schema correctly with 2d geo index](https://stackoverflow.com/a/19701983/1207049) — marekful, Feb 02 '18 at 07:03

ashwintastic · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-02T08:45:10.560

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You have declared type to be a string but you are trying to save an object

 //Try This
 let newObj = new SomeSchema
 newObj.vDocs = JSON.stringify(whatEverObject)
 SomeSchema.save().then(function(v){
        // whatever 
    })

edited Feb 02 '18 at 08:45

answered Feb 02 '18 at 07:06

ashwintastic

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it worked, but when I have to retrive I have to use JSON.parse() – code.king Feb 02 '18 at 07:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 05 '21 at 02:31

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I had the same problem, I solved it by changing type: Array. The following should work:

vDocs: [{ type: Array, required: true }],

edited Jul 05 '21 at 02:31

Josef

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answered Jul 03 '21 at 13:39

PRIS54

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Mongoose not saving array of objects

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