How to check a whether a certain field in mongo document is true or false

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1

I want to check whether the logged in user has a certain field true or false within their user document. My current rendition passes an object of information, but I just want a true or false.

This is the publish function I made on the server side. I wanted this to return true if the fields ‘profile.completeRegister’ were true

Meteor.publish('completeRegis', () => {
        if (this.userId) {
            
            return Meteor.users.find({ $and: [ { _id: this.userId }, {'profile.completeRegister': true}]}).count() !== 0
        }
    });

This is the function on the client side that I wanted to return the true or false dependant on the publish function.

function completeRegister(){
    return Meteor.subscribe('completeRegis');
}

I did a cosole.log and ill show you the results

function logValue(){
    var profileConfig = completeRegister();
//SOME OTHER CODE
    console.log(profileConfig);
}

This is what the console.log shows

{stop: ƒ, ready: ƒ, subscriptionId: "gB7dtHFSyerJfkr5L"}
ready
:
ƒ ready()
stop
:
ƒ stop()
subscriptionId
:
"gB7dtHFSyerJfkr5L"
__proto__
:
constructor
:
ƒ Object()
hasOwnProperty
:
ƒ hasOwnProperty()
isPrototypeOf
:
ƒ isPrototypeOf()
propertyIsEnumerable
:
ƒ propertyIsEnumerable()
toLocaleString
:
ƒ toLocaleString()
toString
:
ƒ toString()
valueOf
:
ƒ valueOf()
__defineGetter__
:
ƒ __defineGetter__()
__defineSetter__
:
ƒ __defineSetter__()
__lookupGetter__
:
ƒ __lookupGetter__()
__lookupSetter__
:
ƒ __lookupSetter__()
get __proto__
:
ƒ __proto__()
set __proto__
:
ƒ __proto__()

How should I change the code?

2

I find that the best way to do something like this is to ‘null’ publish the user account document like this, in a server loaded file:

Meteor.publish(null, function () {
	if (this.userId) {
		return Meteor.users.find(this.userId, {
			fields: {
				name: 1,
				isAdmin: 1,
				// ...etc...
			}
		});
	} else {
		this.ready();
	}
});

This will automatically publish the user document, I limit the result to only share certain fields (see fields). The document will be kept in sync as its a publication. No need to run a separate publication function.

Because the publication name is null it automatically publishes to the clients. You don’t need to call it from the client. I believe that this only works once in an app.

3

BTW, in the case of the current user (like it appears to be the case here), the profile document is automatically published.

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