Make UUID a formal Schema.Type

[niahmiah]

Hi,

I was wondering.. why is UUID not supported as a formal Schema Type? Mongo has support for storing it as BinData(), which seems to require about 50% of the space as compared to storing them as Strings.

The mongo shell has a built in function UUID() for the conversion... It seems like this would be a nice addition to mongoose.

[vkarpov15]

As far as I know, the mongoose 'buffer' type is what you want for storing the BinData BSON type. http://mongoosejs.com/docs/schematypes.html

[niahmiah]

Created a PR #3242

[iamkhalidbashir]

should not be closed

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@vkarpov15 Any comment as to why the PR with a fix was closed?

##3242

I would love to se this feature released soon!

[vkarpov15]

@L14MJ4M3S0N I'm not sure why the PR was closed, the PR author closed it without any feedback.

[felipefrancisco]

+1

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For those that are looking for a workaround and do not want to use published NPM packages, here is what I have been using.

Interface

export interface Person extends Document {
  uuid: Buffer;
...
};

Schema:

   uuid: {
      type: Schema.Types.Buffer,
      index: true,
      background: true,
      unique: true,
      default: () => new UUID(UUID.generate()).toBinary(),
    },

FindOne Example

const person = await People.findOne()
      .where({uuid: new UUID(event.pathParameters.assessmentId).toBinary()})
      .exec();

Returning a uuid as a string

      return new UUID(person.uuid).toString(),

[adarshmadrecha]

Now that #12268 is merged and released, this issue can be closed.

[hasezoey]

i kinda expected this to auto-close because of the keyword in #12268, but it didnt