Is there a nice way of either saving, or updating a document in mongoose? Something like what I'm after below

 let campaign = new Campaign({
        title: req.body.title,
        market: req.body.market,
        logo: req.body.logo,
        additional_question_information: question,
        status: status
    });

 campaign.saveOrUpdate().then(function() { ... }

Thanks for the help all

Is there a nice way of either saving, or updating a document in mongoose? Something like what I'm after below

 let campaign = new Campaign({
        title: req.body.title,
        market: req.body.market,
        logo: req.body.logo,
        additional_question_information: question,
        status: status
    });

 campaign.saveOrUpdate().then(function() { ... }

Thanks for the help all

• javascript
• node.js
• mongodb
• mongoose

• What is your question? What you are doing is correct. – itsundefined Commented May 31, 2017 at 14:34
• 1 Sorry, I wasn't clear at all. I want to save a document if it doesn't exist, OR update a preexisting one with the new data. Is there a method to do that in mongoose? Seems like it'd be nice – Ollie Commented May 31, 2017 at 14:44
• 1 Possible duplicate of How do I update/upsert a document in Mongoose? – Neil Lunn Commented May 31, 2017 at 23:23
• See Insert-or-Update with MongoDB and Mongoose. – str Commented Jun 2, 2017 at 8:16
• Possible duplicate of How do I update/upsert a document in Mongoose? – str Commented Jun 2, 2017 at 8:18

2 Answers 2

I think what you're looking for is called an 'upsert'.

You can do this by using findOneAndUpdate and passing the { upsert: true } option, something like the below example:

let campaign = new Campaign({
        title: req.body.title,
        market: req.body.market,
        logo: req.body.logo,
        additional_question_information: question,
        status: status
    });

Campaign.findOneAndUpdate({
    _id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId('CAMPAIGN ID TO SEARCH FOR')
}, campaign, { upsert: true }, function(err, res) {
    // Deal with the response data/error
});

The first parameter to findOneAndUpdate is the query used to see if you're saving a new document or updating an existing one. If you want to return the modified document in the response data then you can also add the { new: true } option.

Documentation here for findOneAndUpdate: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#model_Model.findOneAndUpdate

You can use the MongoDB's findAndModify function. In mongoose this is natively supported by calling findOneAndUpdate(). Here is the documentation for it. http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#query_Query-findOneAndUpdate Notice that in the third argument it awaits for an object to be passed with options. You want to use { upsert : true } in there to create a new document if one does not exist.