Meteor reactive tables with FS.Collection - meteor

Question

I'm struggling to implement reactive tables based on a FS.Collection object. I've tried both aldeed/meteor-tabular and aslagle/reactive-table but both fail because the collection doesn't appear to exist. However, if I subscribe and retrieve fields from the Collection without using a reactive table package then the data displays just fine. What am I missing? It can't be a coincidence that both packages fail to work...
Here's my implementation with the aslagle/reactive-table package...
//template
<template name="documentTable">
{{#if Template.subscriptionsReady}}
{{> reactiveTable settings=settings}}
{{else}}
{{> spinner}}
{{/if}}
{{#if currentUser}}
{{> fileUpload}}
{{/if}}
</template>
//documents js
Template.documents.onCreated( () => {
p_id = FlowRouter.current().params.id;
Template.instance().subscribe('documents', p_id);
});
Template.documents.helpers({
documents: function () {
return Documents.find();
},
settings: function () {
return {
collection: documents,
showFilter: false,
rowsPerPage: 5,
showNavigation: auto,
showRowCount: true,
fields: ['_id','userId','propertyId','uploadedAt']
};
}
});
//collection definition
if (Meteor.isServer) {
var docStore = new FS.Store.S3("documents", {
region: "eu-west-1",
accessKeyId: (Meteor.isServer && !process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID ? Meteor.settings.AWSAccessKeyId : null),
secretAccessKey: (Meteor.isServer && !process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY ? Meteor.settings.AWSSecretAccessKey : null),
bucket: Meteor.isServer && process.env.AWS_S3_BUCKET || Meteor.settings.AWSBucket,
folder: "documents"
});
Documents = new FS.Collection("Documents", {
stores: [docStore],
filter: {
allow: {
contentTypes: ['application/pdf']
}
}
});
}
// end server
if (Meteor.isClient) {
var docStore = new FS.Store.S3("documents");
Documents = new FS.Collection("Documents", {
stores: [docStore],
filter: {
allow: {
contentTypes: ['application/pdf']
}
}
});
}
// end client
// allow rules
Documents.allow({
insert: function(userId) {
// only allow insert from signed in user
return userId != null;
},
update: function(userId) {
// only allow update from signed in uesr
return userId != null;
},
download: function() {
return true;
},
});
In the reactive-table case I'm getting the error that the argument is not an instance of Mongo.Collection, a cursor or an array while with meteor-tabular it fails to start because it encounters a ReferenceError and states that Documents isn't defined.
Anyone any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

I'm using aslagle/reactive-table with mongo quite well, with a pub/sub model; I don't know what your new FS is? is that a mongo collection?
I have something like this when I use the reactive-table...
//on the server
Documents = new Mongo.Collection('documents');
//on the client js
Documents = new Mongo.Collection('documents');
Template.documents.helpers({
settings: function () {
return {
collection: Documents.find(),
rowsPerPage: 5,
showFilter: false,
showNavigation: auto,
showRowCount: true,
fields: [
{key: '_id',
label: 'ID' },
{key: 'userId',
label: 'User#' },
{key: 'propertyId',
label: 'Property#' },
{key: 'uploadedAt',
label: 'Uploaded' },
]
};
}
});
//on the client html file
{{> reactiveTable class="table table-bordered table-hover" settings=settings}}