Hey all,
I have looked everywhere on stackoverflow without any leads so I’m hoping someone can help here.
I’m trying to implement an auto-increment field in a Simple-Schema with autoValue or defaultValue.
Within the function I am making a Meteor.call to a method I have defined on the server.
Here’s my stuff:
lib/collections/simple-schemas.js
if (Meteor.isServer) {
Schemas = {};
Schemas.Guests = new SimpleSchema({
guest_id: {
type: Number,
label: "guest_id",
min: 0,
autoValue: function() {
if (this.isInsert && Meteor.isServer) {
return Meteor.call("getNextSequence", "guest_id");
}
// ELSE omitted intentionally
}
},
firstName: {
type: String,
label: "First Name",
max: 200
},
lastName: {
type: String,
label: "Last Name",
max: 200
}
});
Guests.attachSchema(Schemas.Guests);
}
and my methods are defined here:
lib/methods.js
if (Meteor.isServer) {
Meteor.startup(function() {
Meteor.methods({
getNextSequence: function(counter_name) {
console.log("Counter: " + counter_name);
if (Counters.findOne({
_id: counter_name
}) == 0) {
Counters.insert({
_id: counter_name,
seq: 0
});
console.log("Initialized counter: " + counter_name + " with a sequence value of 0.");
return 0;
} else {
counter = Counters.findOne({
_id: counter_name
});
console.log("Counter " + counter_name + ": " + counter.seq);
Counters.update({
_id: counter_name
}, {
$inc: {
seq: 1
}
});
return counter.seq;
}
}
});
});
}
I’m getting a Method not found [404] error though. Any thoughts on how to get around this? Or does anyone have a better implementation of an auto-increment field?
Cheers,
Maggie