Possibility to have sub-documents by reference?

[ghost]

I have the models below:

import { Model } from 'mongorito';

export class User extends Model {
  configure () {
    this.before('create', 'checkIfExists');
  }
  async checkIfExists () {
    let exists = true;
    await User.find({ name: this.get('name') })
    .then(res => exists = !!res.length);
    if (exists) throw new Error('User already exists on the database');
  }
}

export class Character extends Model {
  async configure () {
    await User.findOne({ _id: this.get('owner') })
    .then(res => this.set('owner', res));
    this.before('create', 'checkIfExists');
  }
  async checkIfExists () {
    let exists = true;
    await Character.find({ owner: this.get('owner') })
    .then(res => exists = !!res.length);
    if (exists) throw new Error('Character already exists on the database');
  }
}

and want to save documents like this:

const char = new Character({
  name: "Tobias",
  owner: "587fab63213d494a6b865547" // an ID for an existing User on DB
});

Am I getting something wrong here?
I didn't understood how to get the Mode.populate() thing to work with this models neither.

[EdenCoder]

I did something similar in https://github.com/eden-js/eden/blob/master/lib/core/model.js

Basically instead of doing .get ('field') you'd do await char.model ('owner'),

The major issue is the need to register all models beforehand, else mongorito has no idea which class the sub-document references. However I think @vadimdemedes has added this to the roadmap.

[ghost]

I'll try to use your class and see what I get.

[ghost]

@vadimdemedes if it is already on the roadmap we could reference this on the roadmap and close this issue.