Autoform server side pre insert processing

[mordrax]

Using AutoForms, hooks are a great way to add client-side default or custom fields before inserting/updating the collection.

For the life of me, I can’t work out how to do this on the server side instead.
AutoForms provide the method and method-update type for simple schemas, however, i’ve been using update-pushArray for adding new messages to a thread but I’d like to be able to add default fields to the new message on the server side.

[serkandurusoy]

You have two very easy options:

• https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-simple-schema#defaultvalue or https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-simple-schema#autovalue with simple schema (which you already have since you are on autoform)
• https://github.com/matb33/meteor-collection-hooks#beforeinsertuserid-doc with collection hooks

and if you like the latter, here’s a great video MeteorCasts ep2 - dburles:collection-helpers and a good article https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/a-look-at-meteor-collection-hooks/

Of course you can always use http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/meteor_methods for more control