Meteor.publish is not executed

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1

I’m a bit stumped on this and I’m not really seeing where the problem lies. First I thought it was something on the directory structure… but, no. This is on Meteor beta.8, by the way.

I first stumbled across this when I wanted to publish all users to the admin for an admin panel. I noticed that the collection on the client side remained empty. First I though it was the alanning:roles package but that one seems to be innocent.

The code in question on a shared file:

AllUsers = new Mongo.Collection("allusers");
Test = new Mongo.Collection("test");

console.log("Shared");

if(Meteor.isServer) {
    console.log("Server");
    Meteor.publish("allusers", function() {
        console.log("Test");
        return Meteor.users.find({});
    });
    Meteor.publish("test", function(){
        console.log("Test2");
        return Test.find({});
    });
}

What I’m seeing on the server terminal:

Shared
Server

What I’m seeing on the client terminal:

Shared

What I’m not seeing:

Test
Test2

It’s a bit of a mystery to me.

2

Why are you using Meteor beta versions ?

3

Where is your client code subscribing?

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4

Ah, I see. So I have to subscribe for the code to at least execute once. That part works now.

However, there’s now a different problem - the collection AllUsers is always empty.

Meteor.users.find().fetch() on the server returns all users.
Meteor.users.find().fetch() on the client returns the currently logged in user.

AllUsers.find().fetch() returns an empty set.

Why not?

5

There is no collection allUsers, there is only Meteor.users. When you subscribe on the client, check if it returns an error.

6

I think maybe you are confusing things. Do you believe that Meteor.publish() publishes into a collection? I mean, I guess in a certain way it is, but when you create the collection ‘allUsers’ it references a collection in the database and when you publish ‘allUsers’ it is just a reference to the cursor holding the query you executed.

7

Okay, I think I got it now. Thanks.