How do you insert subdocuments using node-restful?

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I'm developing a MEAN stack application that needs to insert a list of contacts into a single record in MongoDb.

I'm using the Node-Restful module, which is a great helper.

I'm having trouble figuring out how I would insert/embed a list of contacts into an single user's record. The alternative for me is to do a reference to another collection, but from what I've seen in Mongo, the recommendation would be to embed each contact as a subdocument within a single document.

Has anyone had experience using the Node-Restful module to do this?

https://github.com/baugarten/node-restful

So, yes, you're right, it's better to use subdocuments whenever you can (if the nested array is not too big). For that, you have several options that are RESTful compilant. The simplest one is to send your entire document inside POST/PUT request. — Odonno
– Odonno, Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 20:29

Tiago Gouvêa · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-12 17:40:18Z

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You can post a object with the related sub-docs. Eg:

{ "name": "Luke Skywalker",
  "films": [
    {
        "director": "George Lucas", 
        "title": "A New Hope"   
    },
    {
        "director": "George Lucas", 
        "title": "Attack of the Clones" 
    }
  ]
}

On my person schema I have a reference to film schema in "films" attribute. By this way you will create the document with the subdocuments in just one post.

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 17:40

Tiago Gouvêa

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