Filtering and search by ID does not work

Describe the bug Filtering and search by ID does not work. As far as I understand, @admin-bro/mongoose has wrong cast of type ObjectId. There is no id in property types and @admin-bro/mongoose converts ObjectId to string. As a result, a regular expression string filter is obtained

Error

[Node] 2021-01-14 19:38:43 error: Error: Can't use $options [Node] at ObjectId.SchemaType.castForQuery (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/schematype.js:1495:13) [Node] at ObjectId.SchemaType.castForQueryWrapper (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/schematype.js:1467:22) [Node] at cast (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/cast.js:310:39) [Node] at model.Query.Query.cast (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/query.js:4786:12) [Node] at model.Query.Query._castConditions (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/query.js:1874:10) [Node] at model.Query.<anonymous> (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/query.js:1901:8) [Node] at model.Query._wrappedThunk [as _find] (/home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/mongoose/lib/helpers/query/wrapThunk.js:16:8) [Node] at /home/doss/Projects/fitnes-batut/node_modules/kareem/index.js:369:33 [Node] at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:79:11)

Installed libraries and their versions

• admin-bro@3.3.1
• admin-bro-expressjs@3.0.1
• @admin-bro/mongoose@1.1.0

[alecgibson]

@Gadana1 's solution involves copy-pasting code out of the adminjs codebase, which is pretty fragile. At any rate, I did more digging and the issue is actually with @adminjs/mongoose. Somebody actually raised a PR to fix this in December, which has been approved but not merged: https://github.com/SoftwareBrothers/adminjs-mongoose/pull/39

Any chance we can get that merged and released?

[Gadana1]

The only way I could solve this was to ad a global list action. So if _id is passed then I get the item by id else, proceed with the normal flow.

// global.js

  const { SortSetter, Filter, populator } = require('adminjs');
  const AdminJS = require('adminjs');
  const flat = require('flat');
  
  // Max records for each page
  const PER_PAGE_LIMIT = 100;
  
  const Action = {
      /**
       * @param {AdminJS.ActionRequest} request
       * @param {AdminJS.ActionResponse} response
       * @param {AdminJS.ActionContext} context
       * @returns {AdminJS.ListActionResponse} context
       */
      list: async (request, response, context) => {
          const { query } = request;
          const { sortBy, direction, filters = {} } = flat.unflatten(query || {});
          const { resource } = context;
  
          let { page = 1, perPage = 10 } = flat.unflatten(query || {});
          perPage = +perPage > PER_PAGE_LIMIT ? PER_PAGE_LIMIT : +perPage;
  
          const listProperties = resource.decorate().getListProperties();
          const firstProperty = listProperties.find((p) => p.isSortable());
          const sort = firstProperty ? SortSetter({ sortBy, direction }, firstProperty.name(), resource.decorate().options) : null;
  
          /** @type {AdminJS.BaseRecord[]} */
          let records = [];
          let total = 0;
  
          // If filter by ID passed, then get item by ID
          if(filters._id) {
            records = await resource.findMany([filters._id]);
            total = records ? records.length : 0;
          }
  
          // Search and filter if id not passed
          else {
            const filter = await new Filter(filters, resource).populate();
            records = await resource.find(filter, {
                limit: perPage,
                offset: (page - 1) * perPage,
                sort,
            });
            total = await resource.count(filter);
          }
  
          const populatedRecords = (context.records = await populator(records));
          return {
              meta: {
                  total,
                  perPage,
                  page,
                  direction: sort.direction,
                  sortBy: sort.sortBy,
              },
              records: populatedRecords.map((r) => r.toJSON(context.currentAdmin)),
          };
      },
  };
  
  module.exports = {
      Action,
  };

// index.js -> [Your Initializing script]

.....
const AdminJS = require('adminjs');
const { Action } = require('./globals');

// Add custom global action handler befor initializing adminJs
AdminJS.ACTIONS.list.handler = Action.list

// Set up admin
const adminJs = new AdminJS({....});