I've been trying to use mongoose (module for node.js and mongodb). And tried to get a connection with mongolab up and running. I tried the following at the top of my app.js file, but I couldn't seem to enter the db.on function.
global.mongoose = require('mongoose');
var uri = 'mongodb://username:password#####@ds.mongolab.com:#####/db';
global.db = mongoose.createConnection(uri);
global.Schema = mongoose.Schema;
db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'));
db.once('open', function (callback) {
console.log("db up")
var userSchema = new Schema({
name : { type: String, default: '' }
, password : { type: String, default: '' }
});
var userModel = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);
var test = new userModel({name: "test", password: "test"})
console.log("me: " + test)
test.save(function (err, test) {
console.log("saved?")
if (err) {
console.log("error");
return console.error(err);
}
console.log("saved!")
});
console.log("after save");
});
My terminal output was
/usr/local/bin/node bin/www
me: { _id: 557f93a8a8b4b8628095bd01, password: 'test', name: 'test' }
after save
The debugger also seemed to skip the function (my debugging skills on WebStorm are limited though)
This also didn't work in a more straightforward manner:
mongoose = require('mongoose');
var uri = 'mongodb://username:password.mongolab.com:#####/db';
db = mongoose.createConnection(uri);
Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var userSchema = new Schema({
name : { type: String, default: '' }
, password : { type: String, default: '' }
});
var userModel = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);
var test = new userModel({name: "test", password: "test"})
console.log("me: " + test)
test.save(function (err, test) {
console.log("saved?")
if (err) {
console.log("error");
return console.error(err);
}
console.log("saved!")
});
console.log("after save");
This gave me the same terminal output.
I'd like to know what steps I need to take to actually start talking to my mongolab database. Also I don't see any collection created on mongolab.