Publish uploading file without overpublishing

[Neobii]

Files need to be published automatically that are being uploaded because overpublishing will of course publish a lot of unnecessary data.

[serkandurusoy]

Hm, actually I was wondering the same thing.

Are there any best practices or patterns to ensure we publish just enough for the uploads to work?

Otherwise, publishing the whole store is a bad idea for many reasons.

[Tycale]

You can use the owner field :
https://github.com/yogiben/meteor-autoform-file/blob/master/lib/client/autoform-file.coffee#L58

Meteor.publish 'publishName', ->
  collection.find({owner: @userId})

[mpowaga]

Uploaded file will be automatically published by autoform-file. Is that not working for you?

[serkandurusoy]

@Tycale that would still publish all the files belonging to a user.

@mpowaga I don't understand what you mean. If I don't publish the collection manually, I can't see the uploaded image file on the insert form.

Edit:
Please disregard this. I've just realized I've switched to a fork (for materialize theme) and that fork is behind in commits. It does not publish the uploaded file.

[Tycale]

Yes, you're right.
In fact, it works now without "publish/subscribe".
I use Meteor-starter and I had to change manually the version of this packet from 0.2.7 to 0.2.9.