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Schema, array, default value (default value "[]" is not working)

See original GitHub issue

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/dbTest');

var arrayTestSchema = new Schema({
    anArray: {
      type: Array,
      'default': []
    }
});

mongoose.model('ArrayTest', arrayTestSchema);
ArrayTest = mongoose.model('ArrayTest');

var myTest = new ArrayTest();
console.log(arrayTestSchema.anArray);

mongoose.connection.close();

displays “undefined”

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Created 13 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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bnoguchicommented, Feb 16, 2011

It’s failing because you’re not accessing your document instance. I’ve commented out your console.log and replaced it with the correct one.

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/dbTest');

var arrayTestSchema = new Schema({
    anArray: {
      type: Array,
      'default': []
    }
});

mongoose.model('ArrayTest', arrayTestSchema);
ArrayTest = mongoose.model('ArrayTest');

var myTest = new ArrayTest();
// console.log(arrayTestSchema.anArray);
console.log(myTest.anArray);

mongoose.connection.close();

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raysk4evercommented, Oct 21, 2019

@bnoguchi what about the type of array items?