Class: Document ‹T›

Document class represent a database document and provide some useful methods to work with.

example

import { connect, model } from "ottoman";
connect("couchbase://localhost/travel-sample@admin:password");

// Create an `User` model
const User = model('User', { name: String });

// Create a document from the `User` Model
const jane = new User({name: "Jane Doe"})

Type parameters

▪ T

Hierarchy

• Document

  ↳ Model

Methods

_applyData

▸ _applyData(data: any): void

Allows to easily apply data from an object to current document.

example

const user = new User({name: "John Doe"});

user._applyData({name: "Jane Doe"});
console.log(user) // {name: "Jane Doe"}

Parameters:

Name	Type
data	any

Returns: void

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_depopulate

▸ _depopulate(fieldsName: string | string[]): this

Reverts population. Switches back document reference

example To get in context about the Card and Issue Models see the populate example.

const card = await Card.findById(cardId);
console.log(card.issues); // ['issueId']

await card._populate('issues')
console.log(card.issues); // [{id: 'issueId', title: 'Broken card'}]

card._depopulate('issues')
console.log(card.issues); // ['issueId']

Parameters:

Name	Type
fieldsName	string | string[]

Returns: this

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_getId

▸ _getId(): string

Returns id value, useful when working with dynamic ID_KEY

example

  console.log(user._getId()); // 'userId'
  console.log(user.id); // 'userId'

Returns: string

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_getIdField

▸ _getIdField(): string

Returns id key

Returns: string

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_populate

▸ _populate(fieldsName: string | string[], deep: number): Promise‹this›

Allows to load document references

example Getting context to explain populate.

const CardSchema = new Schema({
  number: String,
  zipCode: String,
  issues: [{ type: IssueSchema, ref: 'Issue' }],
});

const IssueSchema = new Schema({
  title: String,
  description: String,
});

const Card = model('Card', CardSchema);
const Issue = model('Issue', CardSchema);

const issue = await Issue.create({ title: 'Broken card' });

const card = await Card.create({
  cardNumber: '4242 4242 4242 4242',
  zipCode: '42424',
  issues: [issue.id],
});

Now we will see how the _populate methods works.

const card = await Card.findById(cardId);
console.log(card.issues); // ['issueId']

await card.populate('issues')
console.log(card.issues); // [{id: 'issueId', title: 'Broken card'}]

Parameters:

Name	Type	Default
fieldsName	string | string[]	-
deep	number	DEFAULT_POPULATE_MAX_DEEP

Returns: Promise‹this›

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_populated

▸ _populated(fieldName: string): boolean

Allows to know if a document field is populated

example To get in context about the Card and Issue Models see the populate example.

const card = await Card.findById(cardId);
console.log(card.issues); // ['issueId']
console.log(card._populated('issues')); // false

await card._populate('issues')
console.log(card.issues); // [{id: 'issueId', title: 'Broken card'}]
console.log(card._populated('issues')); // true

Parameters:

Name	Type
fieldName	string

Returns: boolean

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_validate

▸ _validate(): any

Runs schema validations over current document

example

const user = new User({name: "John Doe"});

try {
  await user._validate()
} catch(errors) {
  console.log(errors)
}

Returns: any

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remove

▸ remove(options: object): Promise‹any›

Removes the document from database

example

const user = User.findById('userId')

await user.remove();

Parameters:

Name	Type	Default
options	object	{}

Returns: Promise‹any›

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save

▸ save(): Promise‹this›

Saves or Updates the document

example

const user = new User({name: "John Doe"}); //user document created, it's not saved yet

await user.save(); // user saved into the DB

Returns: Promise‹this›

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toJSON

▸ toJSON(): this

Returns a Javascript object to be serialized to JSON

Returns: this

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toObject

▸ toObject(): this

Returns a Javascript object with data

Returns: this