stupid question: what type should we assign for the autogenerated ObjectId?

I’ve been defining some of them as:

    @prop({ auto: true })
    _id?: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId;

But it eventually started to cause issues when making references to it and treating it as string in my app.

Does it make any difference if I just define it as as tring as opposed to the ObjectId type?

Thanks!

[hasezoey]

you said something about “dynamic package” could you explain a bit more? maybe if you cant import everything, try import { Types } from "mongoose"; Types.ObjectId

[amkazan]

also i had: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘ObjectId’ of undefined for this: mongoose.Types.ObjectId

Changed this to this:

// import * as mongoose from 'mongoose';
import mongoose from 'mongoose';