Be able to customize Meteor.users schema

[mquandalle]

Meteor.users is the default meteor collection storing users documents. It would be cool to be able to define extra fields with extra rules such as index or autoValue on this special collection.

Since this collection already have a kind of default schema, maybe we could use an extendSchema method to define new fields?

[aldeed]

Good idea. I think both addSchema and extendSchema would be necessary. addSchema could be used to do everything the constructor function does, but after the object is initialized. C2 package could call this by default on Meteor.users to add the base schema. Then package users could call Meteor.users.extendSchema to add their own definitions for metadata fields, etc.

I think it's reasonable to autovalidate Meteor.users when c2 is used, but we'd want to make sure this is a well documented feature.

[wbashir]

+1

[petrometro]

Would love to know is someone working on this feature/is it already implemented ? I've noticed that Meteor.users.simpleSchema() exists but is empty by default. Is there a way to dynamically assign a schema to a collection after the collection has been created ? Eg something like

Meteor.users.schema = new SimpleSchema({
'profile' : {
type : ProfileSchema
},
'foo' : {
type : String
}
});

That would be really great if I could set up a schema on Meteor.users so that there would be automatic validations based on my schema whenever I try to insert a new user or to update a user.

[aldeed]

Nobody working on it. I plan to when I get time. Best I can say at the moment is probably sometime this month. Will probably be something like Meteor.users.attachSchema(mySimpleSchema).

[petrometro]

This is super useful - great work and thanks so much !

[aldeed]

Added documentation for this in the README.

[sabbaticaldev]

Great!