Saving API call result to a collection but recieving errors while setting up a SimpleSchema - meteor

Question

I have a Meteor method which does an API call, then the response of the call is saved to the users collection. I'm using the Collection2 package with my project and I'm a little bit lost setting up my SimpleSchema for this.
Here is what the JSON response looks like from the API call:
[{"keyword":"2i","url":"http://example.com","title":"Example","timestamp":"2016-11-05
08:54:42","ip":"00.00.00.000","clicks":"2","user":"HweoSCY2ujscjJ9Zl"},{"keyword":"2j","url":"http://example.com","title":"YouTube","timestamp":"2016-11-06
02:11:18","ip":"00.00.00.000","clicks":"1","user":"HweoSCY2ujscjJ9Zl"},{"keyword":"2k","url":"http://example.com","title":"YouTube","timestamp":"2016-11-08
03:35:12","ip":"00.00.00.000","clicks":"0","user":"HweoSCY2ujscjJ9Zl"}]
Here's currently how I've been able to save this data to the users collection:
Meteor.users.update(Meteor.userId(), {
$set: { 'shortURLs.URLS': result.data }
});
This works and looks like this in the db:
My issue is that I'd like to have a SimpleSchema setup for this so that the "timestamp" will be saved as a Date instead of a String, but everytime I try and create a schema for it I just receive errors like "After filtering out keys not in the schema, your modifier is now empty". I have tried a lot of different variations to try and make it work but none of them have been successful, here's just currently where it's at:
Schema.ShortURLs = new SimpleSchema({
shortURLs: {
type: Object
},
'shortURLs.$': {
type: Object
},
'shortURLs.$.keyword': {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "Keyword"
},
'shortURLs.$.url': {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "URL"
},
'shortURLs.$.title': {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "Title"
},
'shortURLs.$.timestamp': {
type: Date,
optional: true,
label: "Timestamp"
},
'shortURLs.$.ip': {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "IP"
},
'shortURLs.$.clicks': {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "Clicks"
},
'shortURLs.$.user': {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "User"
},
});
This is then attached apart of a User Simple Schema:
...
shortURLs: {
type: Schema.ShortURLs,
optional: true
},
...
And I have that attached to the users collection:
Meteor.users.attachSchema(Schema.User);
I don't think there's an issue with how I have it attached as I have other SimpleSchemas setup the same way and they're working fine, I believe the issue is how I have this particular one written. Any help here would be extremely appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to define the shortURLs type in the Meteor.users collection as type: [Schema.ShortURLs], i.e. a list of type Schema.ShortURLs
Schema = {}
Schema.ShortURLs = new SimpleSchema({
keyword: {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "Keyword"
},
url: {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "URL"
},
title: {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "Title"
},
timestamp: {
type: Date,
optional: true,
label: "Timestamp"
},
ip: {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "IP"
},
clicks: {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "Clicks"
},
user: {
type: String,
optional: true,
label: "User"
},
});
Schema.User = new SimpleSchema({
...
shortURLs: {
type: [Schema.ShortURLs],
optional: true
},
...
});
...
Meteor.users.attachSchema(Schema.User);