Help with inserting new objects into array of objects through update statement with $push

I have been struggling to insert objects into an array on the Meteor user document and keep getting errors with my query. I am trying to achieve similar structure as how emails are stored using the accounts package.

ie

below is my schema

tenants: {
type: Array, //Object optional: true, blackbox: true }, “tenants.$.id”: { // the organisation is type: String, }, “tenants.$.name”: { // the organisation is type: String, },

and my update query as below

> _id: Meteor.userId(),
>                     modifier: {
>                       $set:{currentType: "special", currentTenant: "tenantId"}, 
>                       $push: { 
>                         'tenants': {                     
>                             'tenants.id':"tenantId",
>                             'tenants.name': "test tenantname"
>                         }
>                        }
>                       }

have tried so many different version and keep getting so many errors. This current version give no errors but doesn’t insert either. the push part of the query just fails or does nothing.

Im using collection2, simplscema etc

Please help @aldeed

[aldeed]

@nosizejosh A few issues:

1. blackbox is for objects, not arrays. But you shouldn’t need it.
2. Your schema is missing "tenants.$": Object (meaning, each array item must be an object)
3. In your $push, 'tenants.id' should be just id and 'tenants.name' should be just name. You’re pushing that whole object into tenants array, so those keys are already scoped.

[nosizejosh]

@aldeed thank you so much for you reply, it works. I actually ended-up leaving the array of objects to use a simple array to store only tenant ids as my use case is similar to @alannings in this thread. Question: can an array of objects be indexed as well?