Saving an id to a custom column fails

[naturalethic]

I have a model with a field called '_account', which should default to a type of ObjectID. When I create a new instance and try to set '_account' to the '_id' of another object, it applies correctly to the object, but when I save the object, that field '_account' remains blank, and the type is reported as String.

[nw]

have you tried defining a cast for that particular property?

casts: { account: ObjectID }

above your model you will need to define ObjectID. You should be able to do the following.

var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID

if you want the casting to be automatic you can just add an underscore to the name, and mongoose will handle the rest.

[naturalethic]

I did try a cast how you suggested, but that also didn't work, and I use an underscore at the beginning of the field name. Keep in mind, the property is getting set on the object as I can see by inspecting the object before and after save, however when I view the object in the database, or load the object back up, that property is unset.

[nw]

and that particular property is defined in your properties: [] ?

for sanity checking you can inspect doc.__doc to see if the property is actually in the internal doc that gets saved down.

[naturalethic]

Yes it is present in my properties array. It is present in the __doc. It is also marked as dirty. Every other field saves properly. If I inspect after I save, it is also still there. However, if I load it back up, or inspect it with MongoHub, it is empty.

[nw]

any other information you can provide would be great. Like what version of mongodb your connecting too. I have not seen this issue, I'll try and reproduce later.

[naturalethic]

I'm using edge version of MongoDB.

[nw]

do you know what version of mongodb-native your using? It should be locked in at v0.7.9.

check out my comment on http://github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose/issues#issue/47 for reasons why.

[naturalethic]

Ug. MongoHub is the culprit. It doesn't display ObjectID's other than _id apparently. I had thought I had tested without MongoHub but I must not have. Sorry to waste your time on this.

[nw]

resolved