Document field: "entry.friends.status" dont work

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1

I cant find information on how to console log a document field (array) name

console.log(entry.friends.status); <- Dont work

      var thefriends = Friends.find({ _id: Meteor.userId() }).fetch();
      console.log(thefriends.friends);

      let myCount = 0

      let inviteCount;
      thefriends.forEach(function(entry) {
        
      console.log(entry.friends[status]);
      
      if (entry.friends.status == 2) {
        myCount +1
      }
 
    });

    console.log(myCount);

DB: friends

{
    "_id" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
    "friends" : [ 
        {
            "id1" : "Nt4ZTwqAqKfNo3avi",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        }, 
        {
            "id1" : "sQEAn5HiCtEnWXHPs",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 1
        }, 
        {
            "id1" : "FXsCRBoPveGN6XvbJ",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        }, 
        {
            "id1" : "3D5sGHGSWHrmTKc4t",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        }
    ]
}
2

.fetch() returns an Array (of Documents), and you try a console.log() on a property (‘friends’) of this Array. Don’t you get any error by doing this ?

If you want to get only one Document (as your query is based on _id) you can use .findOne() instead of .find(). (this way you directly get the Mongo Document)

.

You try to access an index/property of friends by using a variable called status : you don’t have any such variable.

.

This is wrong, you can’t increment your variable this way. I think you mean :

myCount = myCount + 1;
// or
myCount += 1;
// or 
myCount++;
// or
++myCount;

.

You do realise that, with your .forEach(), you loop over 1 item ? Which is the Document you get from your query (based on the current user ID), and not over the property ‘friends’ of this Document.

3

I have tried a lot and cant find the solution on how to count where status = 2

borntodev do you how to count the status when in a array in a document? i’m lost :frowning:

cant find info on how to access status

4

@thorus, no offence but, I think you should learn more about Javascript. Here we have a really basic operation to do.

If I reuse what you tried :

const friendDocument = Friends.findOne({ _id: Meteor.userId() });
const friendsArray = friendDocument.friends;
let myCount = 0;

friendsArray.forEach(function ( friend ) {
  // will output something like { id1: 'xxx', id2: 'yyy', status: Z }
  console.log( friend );

  if ( friend.status === 2 ) {
    ++myCount;
  }
});

console.log( myCount );
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5

Yes I know :frowning: I have to find some time to learn js the basic, but got a customer I could not say no to.

Now I get this error:

hook: "TypeError: Cannot read property 'friends' of undefined"

found in
6

It means your database cannot find any Document with such ID.

You will have to check how data are inserted in your database.

7

This is direct from the mongodb

8

That’s because you’re trying to index an Array’s status property, e.g.: ([].status) will always be undefined

{
    "_id" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
    "friends" : [ 
        {
            "id1" : "Nt4ZTwqAqKfNo3avi",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        }, 
        {
            "id1" : "sQEAn5HiCtEnWXHPs",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 1
        }, 
        {
            "id1" : "FXsCRBoPveGN6XvbJ",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        }, 
        {
            "id1" : "3D5sGHGSWHrmTKc4t",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        }
    ]
}

console.log(entry.friends) Will yield the following:

[{
            "id1" : "Nt4ZTwqAqKfNo3avi",
            "id2" : "8YBhc3AeKbfHaoNJ9",
            "status" : 2
        },...]

Notice it’s an array, arrays don’t have the .status property.

So, based on what you want

Fetching [2, 1, 2, 2] which are each status:

console.log(entry.friends.map(friend => friend.status)) will result on an array of numbers, as you’re using map to extract it’s internals as simple array

Counting the amount of friends that have status === 2:

      var thefriends = Friends.find({ _id: Meteor.userId() }).fetch();
      console.log(thefriends.friends);

      let myCount = 0

      let inviteCount;
      thefriends.forEach(function(entry) {

           // Solution 1, using map and filter
           myCount += entry.friends.map(friends => friends.status).filter(status => status === 2).length 
      })

Other solutions:

let statusSearched = 2;
// statusSearched could be your function argument
var thefriends = Friends.find({ _id: Meteor.userId() }).fetch();
/*
 Remember .status is a property of friends, not of an array, that's why we use map
 casue [].status doesn't exist, but arr = [{status: 2}] can be obtained with arr[0].status
where map iterates in the way of arr.map(friend ...) is equivalent to arr[i++] === friend
*/
let allStatusFriends = thefriends.map(thefriend => thefriend.friends).map(friend => friend.status).filter(status => status === statusSearched); // where statusSearched was defined previously, or just use "2"
console.log('Friends with status 2', allStatusFriends.length);
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9

PERFECT! big thanks.

I will use:

var thefriends = Friends.find({ _id: Meteor.userId() }).fetch();
      console.log(thefriends.friends);

      let myCount = 0

      let inviteCount;
      thefriends.forEach(function(entry) {

           // Solution 1, using map and filter
           myCount += entry.friends.map(friends => friends.status).filter(status => status === 2).length 
      })
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