how to set default value for a field in Sails models using Waterline ORM?

Question

A very simple question but I am unable to find the answer to it. So in my Sails app I have a User model and I am trying to make a boolean field with a default value to be False.

Is there a way to specify defaults like some kind of default attribute etc??

I want something like this:

is_admin: {
        type: 'boolean',
        default: 'false'
    }

Thanks for your time.

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Answer 1

use defaultsTo look this Waterline Docs

Diatropism

Be careful! In Mongo the default value is not set on objects older than the field it added a default value. For example if you added a 'locale' field to user model, after you already had some users, the old users will not be added a default locale value. only new users will have it. – Illuviation

Answer 2

To use a contextual example of "defaultsTo" as described in Zieglar's answer

is_admin : {
    type : "boolean",
    defaultsTo : false
}

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