Requesting for `.parent()` and `.ownerDocument()` in a document class

Which feature

• Accessing parent of a subdocument

Mainly requesting for the .ownerDocument() and .parent() features.

Code Examples

Most of the time used in pre-validations:

SomeSchema.pre('validate', function (next) {
  const isParentSomething = this.parent().something
  if (!isParentSomething) {
    return next(new Error('Subdoc cannot be inserted into parent without something'))
  }
}

Currently, in the Typegoose equivalent,

@pre<SomeClass>('validate', function (next) {
  // Property 'parent' does not exist on type 'DocumentType<SomeClass>'.
  const isParentSomething = this.parent().something
  ...
})

Basically requesting for this in pre/post/ other mongoose hooks to also include the parent and ownerDocument property.

Additional Notes

I’m quite new to Typegoose, so if there is another way to do what I asked without using .parent or .ownerDocument, I’d be very happy too!

[trappar]

This is also currently an issue with subdocuments. I haven’t been able to find any good way to type them. The problem is that even if you use Embedded, it won’t really help since it’s not a generic. This means that when you use parent(), or any of the other methods described in Embedded it won’t return a document that’s aware of what type the parent document is.

My temporary solution is to just create a custom type which is a combination of DocumentType and custom types for the methods I want to use. Pretty poor solution… but at least it works.

[hasezoey]

closing because stale & not a typegoose issue