How do you get documents that are outside of your initial publications? - meteor

Question

For example, let's say I have posts that are locked with a password with the following fields (some may not have a password):
{
_id: String
password: String,
body: String,
createdAt: Date
}
The posts with a password only have some metadata published and the posts without a password is completely published:
Meteor.publish('locked_posts', function() {
return Posts.find({ password: { $exists: true } }, { fields: { createdAt: 1 } });
});
Meteor.publish('public_posts', function() {
return Posts.find({ password: { $exists: false } });
});
The view looks like this:
{{ #each posts }}
{{ #if password }}
<input type="password">
{{ else }}
<div>{{ body }}</div>
{{ /if }}
{{ /each }}
Inside a template, a user should be able to enter a post's password and get that post's body:
So do I re-publish that single post, for which the password was entered, with all the fields, and refresh the template to display this new post?

Answer 1

I would recommend you change this publish to include the password as an input parameter (maybe encrypted?).
Meteor.publish('locked_posts', function(id, password) {
check(id, String);
check(password, String);
return Posts.find({_id: id, password: password }, { fields: { createdAt: 1 } });
});
Then, you can call Meteor.subscribe('locked_posts', postId, somePassword) from your client code where you want the additional fields to be provided.