Meteor does not currently support objects other than ObjectID as ids

[Mattze96]

Hello,

i'm using ground:db from the grounddb-caching-2016 branch.

When accessing external database i get the following error in offline-mode:

Meteor does not currently support objects other than ObjectID as ids

Is there any fix or wrapper available? The point is, that i'm not able to write into the external collection

[raix]

Mongo.Collection has a property called idGeneration='STRING'

[Mattze96]

no, not working with that.

KeyValueStore = new Mongo.Collection('keyvaluestore'); 
Test = new Mongo.Collection('test', {idGeneration: 'STRING'});

Example documents:

KeyValueStore

{ "_id" : "hits", "val" : 388974 }

Test

 { "_id" : ObjectId("55b5f86f7b2179e52b21300c"), "val" : "foobar"}

KeyValueStore is not causing any errors, but Test does. I think it has to do something with ObjectId().

[raix]

Yes - I don't think objectId is supported on the client by Meteor.Collection https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/4193

[raix]

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/6219

A possible explanation in: https://github.com/GroundMeteor/db/issues/99#issuecomment-189903236

[Mattze96]

thanks, so it is no bug in ground:db.

I came up with a really dirty fix. I think it isn't even efficient...

  Meteor.publish('test', function(argument){
    var self = this;
    Test.find().forEach(function(doc) {
      self.added('test', doc._id._str, doc);
    });
    self.ready();
  });

[raix]

It autoclosed... Let me know if this is still an issue in 2.0.0-rc.5 :)