mongoose-selfreference

A plugin for mongoose. It enables the creation of initially self-referential attributes. Combining this plugin with populate is not recommended.

Usage

someSchema.plugin(selfRefPlugin, options);

Options

An object with one required property, keys, an array of strings. Each string is the name of an attribute you want set as a self-reference when it is undefined.

Example

someSchema.plugin(selfRefPlugin, {
    keys : ['attrOne', 'attrTwo', 'attrThree']
});

Where someSchema is an instance of mongoose.Schema and attrOne, attrTwo, attrThree are the names of attributes on the documents you want to be initially self-referential.

No changes to the mongoose.Schema constructor invocation are necessary to use this module, provided the type of the self-referential attributes is the same as the type of the document's _id attribute (mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId by default).