Publish not full reactive

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1

Hey guys,
I’m having some trouble with a reactive publish method. I try to publish all “likes” with information about the user who liked me. This is my function:

Meteor.publish('likes', function () {


var gotLiked = Likes.find({user2: this.userId});
var allLikes = gotLiked.fetch();
likeArray = [];

_.each(allLikes, function (like) {
    likeArray.push(like.user1);
});

var users = Users.find({_id: {$in: likeArray}}, {
    fields: {
        'profile.picture': 1,
        'profile.gender': 1, 'profile.peerkey': 1
    }
});


return [users, Images.find({'owner': {$in: likeArray}}), gotLiked]

});

When someone likes me, I get a visual information in my template. But when I open it, there is only an empty div, meaning he doesn’t get the user information (gender and picture).

When I execute “Users.find().count()” in my browser console, I only get my own account. The funny thing is, if I reload the page and reopen the notification again, all information about the user that liked me are available.

Is the code above not fully reactive?

2

there are many topics on forum discussing join operations.
And yes, publish is not reactive the way how client side is.

3

Hi,
yes, I found “publish-composite” but it is still not working - even the reload doesn’t work anymore.

Meteor.publishComposite('likes', {

find: function () {
    return Likes.find({user2: this.userId});
},
children: [{

    find: function (like) {
        return Users.find(like.user1, {
            fields: {
                '_id':1,
                'profile':1,
                'profile.picture': 1,
                'profile.gender': 1, 'profile.peerkey': 1
            }
        });
    }, children: [{

        find: function (user) {
            return Images.find({owner: user._id});
        }
    }]
}]

});

user2 is the user that’ve been liked (me) and user1 contains the id of the user who liked. I get still like notifications, but they are empty. My helpers look like this:

Template.layout.helpers({
'likes': function () {
    return Likes.find({user2:Meteor.userId()});
},
'likeUser': function()
{
    return Meteor.users.findOne(this.user1);
}
});

Template:

<ul id='dropdown1' class='dropdown-content'>
{{#each likes like}}
<li class="item-user"><img class="preview-partner left"
         src=""/>
    <span>{{likeUser.profile.gender}}</span></li>
    {{/each}}


</ul>

If I replace this.user1 with this.user2 (my own account), I get the gender - means he doesn’t load the other users data.

4

Okay, it’s working now but I’m having another issue. I got some errors thrown:

Exception in template helper: .likePicture@http://localhost:3000/client/templates/application    /layout.js?c86738acdb30bf4f9fd5fce65fc5e2d1a50c3612:50:16
bindDataContext/<@http://localhost:3000/packages/blaze.js?a5c324925e5f6e800a4c618d71caf2848b53bf51:2880:14
Blaze._wrapCatchingExceptions/<@http://localhost:3000/packages/blaze.js?a5c324925e5f6e800a4c618d71caf2848b53bf51:1651:14
wrapHelper/</<@http://localhost:3000/packages/blaze.js?a5c324925e5f6e800a4c618d71caf2848b53bf51:2928:14

It’s all about this:

<li class="item-user"><img class="preview-partner left"
         src="{{ likePicture }}"/>

Helper is:

'likePicture':  function()
{
    return Meteor.users.findOne(this.user1).profile.picture.url("images");
}

(I’m using CollectionFS - on my start template, it is working).

5

Where is this.user1 coming from?

6

It comes from the “Likes” Collection:

Router.route('/decide', {
name: 'decide',
waitOn: function() { return Meteor.subscribe('likes'); }
});

An example: {user1:‘abc’, user2:‘def’}
user1 is the user who liked, user2 the user who got that like.