My purpose is to look for an artist and when I select it, to subscribe to a simple server publish which returns all songs belonging to that artist. The thing is, if I have multiple entries with the same artist, of course, the list of results is showing the artist multiple times. I would need to to somehow a "distinct" publish which would return all artists, but there's no such a feature in Meteor. I found some things implementing the aggregation and distinct, but I don't see how to use Autocomplete publishCursor function... My temporary solution was to denormalize and add a Artists collection, but I should not do that.
Hi, I have a collection Songs which contains data in the following format:
{artist:"Dream Theater", title: "Pull me under"}, {artist:"Dream Theater", title: "Finally free"}
There are more than 5000 entries, so I definetely need server-side autocompletion. On server I published the collection:
Client subscription looks like:
Should I have both collection and subscription in the settings() function?
Last part, the client template:
{{> inputAutocomplete settings=settings id="artistInput" type="text" placeholder="Artist" length="20"}}
My purpose is to look for an artist and when I select it, to subscribe to a simple server publish which returns all songs belonging to that artist. The thing is, if I have multiple entries with the same artist, of course, the list of results is showing the artist multiple times. I would need to to somehow a "distinct" publish which would return all artists, but there's no such a feature in Meteor. I found some things implementing the aggregation and distinct, but I don't see how to use Autocomplete publishCursor function... My temporary solution was to denormalize and add a Artists collection, but I should not do that.
Is there a simpler way?