onCreateUser() not working as expected

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  Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
    user.score = 0;
    user.profile['score'] = 0;
    return user;
  })

This is my code for my onCreateUser. All I want to do is just have a score variable attached to the player. When I try to access it in the client using

Meteor.user().score

or

Meteor.user().profile['score']

both return undefined. If there is a better way to accomplish what I am trying to do? Because right now this is really pissing me off on how it is doing nothing. I am using accounts-password and ian:accounts-ui-bootstrap-3 (alternative to accounts-ui for bootstrap).

2

Try something like:

Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
        user.score = 0;
        if (options.profile)
            user.profile = options.profile;
        return user;
});

Also isnt it Meteor.userId()?

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3

You are probably not publishing that field to the client.

Login to the mongo DB directly and query the DB, I am sure that field is going to be there.

edit:

To publish that detail include this:

Meteor.publish(null, function() {
    if (this.userId) {
         return Meteor.users.findOne(this.userId, {fields: {score: 1}});
    }else{
        this.ready();
    }
})

^^ this will auto publish to logged in users.

(fixed)

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I checked the mongo db directly and I got this:

{ "_id" : "68Dhv8YkChxzy974f", "createdAt" : ISODate("2015-05-25T03:01:47.353Z"), "services" : { "password" : { "bcrypt" : "$2a$10$ZANyImeyJZGg2rKg1TlvaOWCHHaPbWpi210hCReWWYdrzYb2Om.AK" }, "resume" : { "loginTokens" : [ { "when" : ISODate("2015-05-25T03:01:47.356Z"), "hashedToken" : "ZhD4mIkihOKDBI6eFi8cb56va8aescjekEYh1Lq4tp0=" } ] } }, "username" : "6324rfs", "profile" : {  } }

No sign of any score field. I also added the suggestion from above when creating this account. (Getting tired of usernames lol)

I seriously think that the function is just not being called. Is there a way to log stuff on the server to see if it was run?

5

Are you calling onCreateUser on the client or server…? Also, check the console.

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if (Meteor.isClient) {
  Accounts.ui.config({
    passwordSignupFields: 'USERNAME_ONLY'
});

Meteor.subscribe('userData');

Template.leaderboard.helpers({
  players: function() {
    if (Meteor.user()) {
      console.log(Meteor.user().score);
      return Meteor.users.find({}, {sort: {'score': -1}});
    }
  }
})
}

if (Meteor.isServer) {
  Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
    user.score = 0;
    if (options.profile) {
      user.profile = options.profile;
    }
    return user;
  })

  Meteor.publish("userData", function () {
    return Meteor.users.find({}, {sort: {'score': -1}});
  });

  Meteor.startup(function () {
    // code to run on server at startup
  });
}

Meteor.methods({

});

There’s the whole file; it is being called from the server. Just putting the whole thing just in case. (Sorry for poor indents, ctrlc ctrlv messed it up)

7

Anything being printed out in the console?

8

The console.log in the leaderboard helper says undefined. And the field is non-existant in MongoDB I think that maybe the account-ui is handling this function for me so it is getting ignored here.

9

@jrodmanu

This works. If you want to test it, just create a template called hello with a button that has an id of button.

You should check out the msavin:mongol package, its a nice gui to interact with the db.

10

For me it is saying undefined method ‘scored’ so I think I have problems bigger than just this. Going to start clean and just copy html

11

Got it all reset and it works perfectly :smiley: Thank you especially for showing me the msavin:mongol; it is very useful.