Kevin Powell - Community•17mo ago

AutoIncrement using mongoose

Please Guys what is the best way to implement AutoIncrement using mongoose, i tried the best two option and it wasnt working mongoose-sequence mongoose-auto-increment

const AutoIncrement = require('mongoose-sequence')(mongoose)

interface userTracks extends IUserTrack, mongoose.Document {}

const userModel = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    fullName: {
      type: String,
      unique: false,
      lowercase: true
    },
    email: {
      type: String,
      unique: true,
      lowercase: true
    },
    phone: {
      type: String
    },
    country: {
      type: String,
      unique: false,
      lowercase: true
    }
  },
  { timestamps: true }
)

userModel.plugin(AutoIncrement, { inc_field: 'ticketNo', start_seq: 1000 })

export default mongoose.model<userTracks>('users', userModel)

const AutoIncrement = require('mongoose-sequence')(mongoose)

interface userTracks extends IUserTrack, mongoose.Document {}

const userModel = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    fullName: {
      type: String,
      unique: false,
      lowercase: true
    },
    email: {
      type: String,
      unique: true,
      lowercase: true
    },
    phone: {
      type: String
    },
    country: {
      type: String,
      unique: false,
      lowercase: true
    }
  },
  { timestamps: true }
)

userModel.plugin(AutoIncrement, { inc_field: 'ticketNo', start_seq: 1000 })

export default mongoose.model<userTracks>('users', userModel)

3 Replies

Electronic•17mo ago

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28357965/mongoose-auto-increment#:~:text=You%20can%20use%20mongoose%2Dauto,connection)%3B%20CounterSchema.

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Mongoose auto increment

According to this mongodb article it is possible to auto increment a field and I would like the use the counters collection way. The problem with that example is that I don't have thousands of peo...

LekeOP•17mo ago

Aint working

Electronic•17mo ago

I'm not too good with mongoose, but I'm guessing you could use the "pre" save hook Create a schema that keeps track of what you want to auto increment And perform a db call to it increment it and save the new document

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