findOrCreate creates duplicates - asynchronous

I'm using oracle adapter, async.each and findOrCreate to transfer some data from oracle to my postgres db:
//simplified version
oracle.select(sql, [], function(err, results) {
async.each(results, function(add_me, async_cb){
model_to_add.findOrCreate(
{not_id_field: add_me.value},
{required_fields: add_me.values}
).exec(function add_me_cb(err, record){
if (record && !err){
async_cb();
}
});
});
})
My sql query returns multiple, not unique values for not_id_field. But I want it to be unique in my postgres db. I thought finOrCreate is the great thing to use. But it somehow fails to find a record.
Was I wrong? Or maybe there's something I'm missing? sails.js documentation isn't really helpful : (

Turns out it was a problem with me - I didn't really understand how async.each works and that it is executed for every item in the array almost at the same time. I switched to async.eachSeries and now it works fine.

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Meteor Publish/Subscribe passing object with string parameter issue

I am trying to pass a object { key:value} and send it to meteor publish so i can query to database.
My Mongo db database has (relevant datas only) for products:
products : {
categs:['Ladies Top','Gents'],
name : Apple
}
In meteor Publish i have the following:
Meteor.publish('product', (query) =>{
return Clothings.find(query);
})
In client i use the following to subscribe:
let query = {categs:'/ladies top/i'}; // please notice the case is lower
let subscribe = Meteor.subscribe('product',query);
if (subscribe.ready()){
clothings = Products.find(query).fetch().reverse();
let count = Products.find(query).fetch().reverse().length; // just for test
}
The issue is, when i send the query from client to server, it is automatically encoded eg:
{categs:'/ladies%top/i'}
This query doesnot seem to work at all. There are like total of more than 20,000 products and fetching all is not an option. So i am trying to fetch based on the category (roughly around 100 products each).
I am new to ,meteor and mongo db and was trying to follow existing code, however this doesnot seem to be correct. Is there a better way to improve the code and achieve the same ?
Any suggestion or idea is highly appreciated.
I did go through meteor docs but they dont seem to have examples for my scenario so i hope someone out there can help me :) Cheers !
Firstly, you are trying to send a regex as a parameter. That's why it's being encoded. Meteor doesn't know how to pass functions or regexes as parameters afaict.
For this specific publication, I recommend sending over the string you want to search for and building the regex on the server:
client:
let categorySearch = 'ladies top';
let obj = { categorySearch }; // and any other things you want to query on.
Meteor.subscribe('productCategory',obj);
server:
Meteor.publish('productCategory',function(obj){
check(obj,Object);
let query = {};
if (obj.categorySearch) query.category = { $regex: `/${obj.categorySearch}/i` };
// add any other search parameters to the query object here
return Products.find(query);
});
Secondly, sending an entire query objet to a publication (or Method) is not at all secure since an attacker can then send any query. Perhaps it doesn't matter with your Products collection.

Delete multiple records in an Azure Table

I have a mobile app written using Apache Cordova. I am using Azure Mobile Apps to store some data.
I created Easy Tables and 1 Easy API. The purpose of the API is to perform delete / update more than 1 record. Below is the implementation of the API.
exports.post = function (request, response){
var mssql = request.service.mssql;
var sql = "delete from cust where deptno in ( ? )";
mssql.query(sql, [request.parameters],{
success : function(result){ response.send(statusCodes.OK, result); },
error: function(err) { response.send(statusCodes.BAD_REQUEST, { message: err}); }
});
}
Is there any other way to implement it ? The del() method on table object on takes id to delete and I didn't find any other approach to delete multiple rows in the table.
I am having difficulty to test the implementation as the changes in the API code is taking 2-3 hours on average to get deployed. I change the code through Azure website and when I run it, the old code is hit and not the latest changes.
Is there any limitation based on the plans we choose?
Update
The updated code worked.
var sql = "delete from trollsconfig where id in (" + request.body.id + ")";
mssql.query(sql, [request.parameters],{
success : function(result){ response.send(statusCodes.OK, result); },
error: function(err) { response.send(statusCodes.BAD_REQUEST, { message: err}); }
});
Let me cover the last one first. You can always restart your service to use the latest code. The code is probably there but the Easy API change is not noticing it. Once your site "times out" and goes to sleep, the code gets reloaded as normal. Logging onto the Azure Portal, selecting your site and clicking Restart should solve the problem.
As to the first problem - there are a variety of ways to implement deletion, but you've pretty much got a good implementation there. I've not run it to test it, but it seems reasonable. What don't you like about it?

How to get error code returned by query using MySQL in Asp.Net

I am working with MySQL in my .net web app with the help of MySQL connector 5.0.9.0.
I am getting data from a web service and inserting it in local database. I only want to insert unique rows in my local database. I came to know that when an duplication occurs, MySQL returned an error code: 1062.
All i want to know that how i could i get this code in a variable and check it against my condition like:
if(errorCode == "1062")
{
Response.Write("Record already exists");
}
else
{
// add the record to database
}
Thanx in advance
Have a look at MySqlException class members. There is a Number property - Gets a number that identifies the type of error.
MySqlException Class.

Meteor: Can't replace document in restricted collection

I am using Meteor 4.2 (Windows) and I am always getting the "update failed: 403 -- Access denied. Can't replace document in restricted collection" when I am trying to update an object in my collection. Strangely I had no problem inserting new ones, only updates are failing.
I tried to "allow" everything on my collection:
Maps.allow({
insert: function () { return true; },
update: function () { return true; },
remove: function () { return true; },
fetch: function () { return true; }
});
But still, this update fails:
Maps.update({
_id: Session.get('current_map')
}, {
name: $('#newMapName').val()
});
Is there something else I can check? Or maybe my code is wrong? Last time I played with my project was with a previous version of Meteor (< 4.0).
Thanks for your help.
PS: Just for information, when I do this update, the local collection is updated, I can see the changes in the UI. Then very quickly it is reverted along with the error message, as the changes has been rejected by the server-side.
Alright, the syntax was actually incorrect. I don't understand really why as it was working well before, but anyway, here is the code that works fine:
Maps.update({
Session.get('current_map')
}, {
$set: {
name: $('#newMapName').val()
}
});
It seems like it must be related to what you're storing in the 'current_map' session variable. If it's a db object, then it probably looks like {_id:<mongo id here>} which would make the update finder work properly.
I ran into the same issues, and found the following to work
Blocks.update {_id:block_id}, {$set: params}
where params is a hash of all the bits i'd like to update and block_id is the mongo object id of the Block i'm trying to update.
Your note about the client side update (which flashes the update and then reverts) is expected behavior. If you check out their docs under the Data and Security section:
Meteor has a cute trick, though. When a client issues a write to the server, it also updates its local cache immediately, without waiting for the server's response. This means the screen will redraw right away. If the server accepted the update — what ought to happen most of the time in a properly behaving client — then the client got a jump on the change and didn't have to wait for the round trip to update its own screen. If the server rejects the change, Meteor patches up the client's cache with the server's result.

Can I create an index in a mongo collection with Meteor? [duplicate]

I am trying to create a two column unique index on the underlying mongodb in a meteor app and having trouble. I can't find anything in the meteor docs. I have tried from the chrome console. I have tried from term and even tried to point mongod at the /db/ dir inside .meteor . I have tried
Collection.ensureIndex({first_id: 1, another_id: 1}, {unique: true}); variations.
I want to be able to prevent duplicate entries on a meteor app mongo collection.
Wondering if anyone has figured this out?
I answered my own question, what a noob.
I figured it out.
Start meteor server
Open 2nd terminal and type meteor mongo
Then create your index...for example I did these for records of thumbsup and thumbsdown type system.
db.thumbsup.ensureIndex({item_id: 1, user_id: 1}, {unique: true})
db.thumbsdown.ensureIndex({item_id: 1, user_id: 1}, {unique: true})
Now, just gotta figure out a bootstrap install setup that creates these when pushed to prod instead of manually.
Collection._ensureIndex(index, options)
Searching inside Meteor source code, I found a bind to ensureIndex called _ensureIndex.
For single-key basic indexes you can follow the example of packages/accounts-base/accounts_server.js that forces unique usernames on Meteor:
Meteor.users._ensureIndex('username', {unique: 1, sparse: 1});
For multi-key "compound" indexes:
Collection._ensureIndex({first_id:1, another_id:1}, {unique: 1});
The previous code, when placed on the server side, ensures that indexes are set.
Warning
Notice _ensureIndex implementation warning:
We'll actually design an index API later. For now, we just pass
through to Mongo's, but make it synchronous.
According to the docs "Minimongo currently doesn't have indexes. This will come soon." And looking at the methods available on a Collection, there's no ensureIndex.
You can run meteor mongo for a mongo shell and enable the indexes server-side, but the Collection object still won't know about them. So the app will let you add multiple instances to the Collection cache, while on the server-side the additional inserts will fail silently (errors get written to the output). When you do a hard page refresh, the app will re-sync with server
So your best bet for now is probably to do something like:
var count = MyCollection.find({first_id: 'foo', another_id: 'bar'}).count()
if (count === 0)
MyCollection.insert({first_id: 'foo', another_id: 'bar'});
Which is obviously not ideal, but works ok. You could also enable indexing in mongodb on the server, so even in the case of a race condition you won't actually get duplicate records.
The Smartpackage aldeed:collection2 supports unique indices, as well as schema-validation. Validation will both occure on server and client (reactivly), so you can react on errors on the client.
Actually why not use upsert on the server with a Meteor.method and you could also send also track it with a ts:
// Server Only
Meteor.methods({
add_only_once = function(id1,id2){
SomeCollection.update(
{first_id:id1,another_id:id2},{$set:{ts:Date.now()}},{upsert:True});
}
});
// Client
Meteor.call('add_only_once',doc1._id, doc2._id);
// actual code running on server
if(Meteor.is_server) {
Meteor.methods({
register_code: function (key,monitor) {
Codes.update({key:key},{$set:{ts:Date.now()}},{upsert:true});
}
...

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