Issue with selector with regex in return

[shrop]

I have seen a few examples like below:

selector: function(match) {
  regex = new RegExp(match, 'i')
  return {'profile.firstName': regex}
}

I am actually trying the code above. If I put a string in place of regex, it is passed and works correctly, but when I use the regex variable, the output sent to query looks like this 'profile.firstName': {} } { limit: 10, sort: { _id: 1 } }. Notice the regex portion is missing.

Anyway, I am not sure why this doesn't work yet. Any thoughts?

[ankitv89]

Were you able to workaround to this?

[mizzao]

I don't think you can use a Javascript regex in a Mongo query that way; you should try the string literal version: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/query/regex/ . Otherwise, use $regex.

[ankitv89]

@mizzao Yes. I did the same. Will share the code in some time to help others who face this issue.

Thanks for responding and making this great package!