How I can separate data by logged user

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1

Hello. Maybe it is a stupid question but if I want to retrieve data only for current logged in user shoul I populate user id to each collection. Or Meteor provide another way to do it.
Thanks.

2

Hi there, yup adding the user id to the collection is the way to go, something along the lines of:

Meteor.methods({
  insertDog: function(myDog) {  
      var user = Meteor.user();

      if (user) {  
          check(myDog, {
                name: String,
                breed: String
            });

            var dog = _.extend(myDog, {      
                ownerId: user._id
            });

            Dogs.insert(dog);
        }
    }
3

@riebeekn thank you for your reply

4

There are a few ways to do it. In your templates you can use {{currentUser}} which is the current logged in user document complete with everything that you publish about the user. An example of that would be

<h1>Hi, {{currentUser.profile.firstname}}!</h1>

Another way would be to only pub/sub to the documents of the currently signed in user which would look something like this.

// Server side
Meteor.publish("userPosts", function(userId){
    return Posts.find({createdBy: userId})
})

//client side
Meteor.subscribe("userPosts", Meteor.userId())

Then wherever you are subscribed to userPosts you can run queries that will only return documents for the currently logged in user.

5

I always have these three fields in each of my collections

  • userId - String
  • createdAt - Date
  • lastUpdate - Date

This is really useful information. And if you are using simple-schema then you can create a base schema and have all of your collections combine with the base schema. so you dont have to repeat your self.

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6

Good point about using simple-schema and / or collection2 to add the user id to a collection.

7

Great solution use simple-schema to add standard field to every collection without repeating! Thanks. It is exactly what I want.