Meteor: Meteor.call() from within observe callback does not execute

Question

Is there any possibility of calling a server method from within a observe callback in Meteor?

I put together an example that reproduces the issue, that

Answer 1

This might be a known issue, i'm not sure since I've not tried it myself, but it looks like there might be a workaround (see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/907)

Add your Meteor.call into an instantaneous setTimeout callback:

added: function(doc) {
    console.log("added "+doc.text);
    setTimeout(function() {
        Meteor.call('aMethod',doc.text,function(e,r){
            if(e){
                console.log("error from server: "+e);
            }else{
                console.log("response from server: "+r);
            }
        });
    },0);
}