Add values to custom model

[vorcigernix]

Your question
How do I update custom value in custom model

What are you trying to do
I am following guide for extending default User model and added my own user attribute (basically a copypaste of the guide). It is not clear how do I update this attribute (say phoneNumber as in example).

Feedback

• Found the documentation helpful
• Found documentation but was incomplete
• Could not find relevant documentation
• Found the example project helpful
• Did not find the example project helpful

[jonlow]

Yep also not able to add a custom model following the documentation

[Noudea]

I have the same issue sadly :(

[jonlow]

@balazsorban44 can you confirm that creating a custom model from the docs example works for you? Happy to provide more info if you need.

[yann-yinn]

Hi, same here, i tried last night without success following the guide; and also I don't know either how to call the ORM to update my user object once the adapter is written

[Noudea]

One solution i found with mongodb is to use the createUser event, so i add userRole. And then i create a new model for the user profile, this new model is linked with the user by the id.

  events: 
    {
        createUser: async (message) => {
        const client = new MongoClient(process.env.DATABASE_URL, {
            useNewUrlParser: true,
            useUnifiedTopology: true,
        });

        if (!client.isConnected()) await client.connect();
        const dbName = process.env.DATABASE_URL.split('/')
            .pop()
            .split('?')
            .shift();

        let usersCollection = client.db(dbName).collection('users');

        usersCollection.updateOne(
            { _id: message.id },
            {
            $set: {
                role : 'user'
            },
            }
        );
        },
    },

[yann-yinn]

@Noudea nice hack, but as we are in a serverless world, this mean we are creating one new db connection on each api call here, don't we?

Maybe we can call the db connection from next-auth, and maybe it cares of not creating a new connection each time ? (don't know it this is even possible, i'm not used to "serverless" world)

[Noudea]

@yann-yinn hey salut. Je vois que tu es un des fondateurs de popcorn, mon professeur a travaillé dessus, comme quoi le monde est petit :) !!

You are raising very good points here. And i don't really know the solutions.
One solution i'm thinking to solve those points is to create and use a middleware to connect to the db, this middleware will be checking if a connection is already existing and if yes use it, else create one. The other solution is to use the connection from next-auth. But i have no idea how to do it. I will try to update my code, but serverless world is also blurry for me.

[yann-yinn]

@Noudea Hello ! Qui était ton prof ?

I was tired to search how to handle correctly database with Next Auth, i'm exploring a more classic solution to handle simple login / register with express and JWT.

I'm really impressed by the project thought, will try it again later!

[Noudea]

@yann-yinn
C'est Carlos : https://github.com/epitre .