Storing Json Object in Mongoose String key

Question

In my Mongoose schema, I have a field which is a String, and I want to be able to store an JSON object in it. Is it possible? In Postgres, it\'s possible to store a dictionary i

Answer 1

Couldn't alter the original due to the 6 change limit on stack-overflow. re-posted, awesome work Tom, was just missing catch(err) in the catch block

data: {
  type: String,
  get: function(data) {
    try { 
      return JSON.parse(data);
    } catch(err) { 
      return data;
    }
  },
  set: function(data) {
    return JSON.stringify(data);
  }
}