[Solved] Updating a collection from an array of records

[cereal]

I have the following code that isn’t performing very well, and I’d like to know if there’s a way in Mongo to do it without iteration the array of records.

games.forEach(g => {
    const { appid, ...game } = g;
    Game.upsert({ appid }, { $set: game });
});

appid in this case is an index.

I want to know if I can run some query do accomplish this in one go, without the loop.

[cereal]

I came up with a solution for this, using the MongoDB driver directly.

    const bulk = Games.rawCollection().initializeUnorderedBulkOp()
    games.forEach(g => {
      const { appid, ...game } = g;
      bulk.find({ appid }).upsert().updateOne({ $set: game });
    });
    Meteor.wrapAsync(bulk.execute, bulk)();

[coagmano]

Yeah, that’s the right way to do bulk ops!

[cereal]

I do want to note that this will do an insertion with ObjectIDs, which isn’t meteor’s default.

You can change you collection’s to use ObjectIDs with the idGeneration option on a collection

export const Games = new Mongo.Collection('games', { idGeneration: 'MONGO' });

The User collection will always use strings, though. If you’re using the accounts module.

[coagmano]

Good point! That’s a big gotcha. I find ObjectIDs a bit of a pain to work with