Mongoose Version
Mongoose Version is a mongoose plugin to save document data versions. Documents are saved to a "versioned" document collection before saving original documents and kept for later use.
Installation
$ npm install mongoose-version
Usage
To use mongoose-version for an existing mongoose schema you'll have to require and plugin mongoose-version into the existing schema.
The following schema definition defines a "Page" schema, and uses mongoose-version plugin with default options
var mongoose = ;var Schema = mongooseSchema;var version = ; var Page = title : type : String required : true content : type : String required : true path : type : String required : true tags : String lastModified : Date created : Date; Page;
Mongoose-version will define a schema that has a refId field pointing to the original model and a version array containing cloned copies of the versioned model.
Mongoose-version will add a static field to Page, that is "VersionedModel" that can be used to access the versioned model of page, for example for querying old versions of a document.
Option keys and defaults
- collection: name of the collection to persist versions to. The default is 'versions'. You should supply this option if you're using mongoose-version on more than one schema.
- suppressVersionIncrement: mongoose-version will not increment the version of the saved model before saving the model by default. To turn on auto version increment set this option to false. Default:
true
- suppressRefIdIndex: mongoose-version will not index the refId field by default. To turn on indexing on refId set this option to false. Default:
true
- strategy: mongoose-version allows versioned document to be saved as multiple documents in a collection or in a single document in a version array. In case you want to save documents in an array specify
array
strategy, for storing versioned documents in multiple documents specifycollection
strategy. Defaultarray
. - maxVersions: Only valid for
array
strategy. Specifies how many historic versions of a document should be kept. Defaults toNumber.MAX_VALUE
. - mongoose: Pass a mongoose instance to work with
- removeVersions: Removes versions when origin document is removed. Defaults to
false
- ignorePaths: Defines an array of document field names that do not trigger a new version to be created when this field was changed. Only working with array strategy (default strategy). Defaults to
[]
. - refIdType: The type of the
_id
field used in your document. Will be used to set the type of the refId. Defaults toObjectId
. - Options are passed to a newly created mongoose schemas as settings, so you may use any option supported by mongoose
In case you only want to specify the collection name, you can pass a string instance to options that is taken as collection name. Options may be passed as follows:
Page;
Misc
Debug Messages
Mongoose-version uses the debug module for debug messages. You can enable mongoose-version debug logs by setting the
DEBUG
environment variable to mongoose:version
.
DEBUG=mongoose:version
on Windows use
SET DEBUG=mongoose:version
Debug messages are logged if a version was persisted to mongodb or a version was removed from mongodb.