Mongoose - findByIdAndUpdate - doesn't work with req.body

Question

I have a problem with update documents in mongodb over mongoose.

My model bellow:

var mongoose = require(\'mongoose\');
var bcrypt = require(\'bcrypt-nod         


        

Answer 1

Further, the req.body would have key value as Text and realized as String object, inside the code. Thus, it is useful to parse the string into JSON using JSON.parse(req.body.user) - while the user is the key and { first_name: 'Michal', last_name: 'Test' } is the value.

console.log(req.body);
var update = JSON.parse(req.body.user);
var id = req.params.user_id;
User.findByIdAndUpdate(id, update, function(err, result){
    if(err){
        console.log(err);
    }
    console.log("RESULT: " + result);
    res.send('Done')
});

Note: the update value is sent to Mongo DB as

{$set: { first_name : 'Michal`, last_name: 'Test' } 

Further reference: Mongoose JS documentation - findByIdAndUpdate