freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/create-and-save-a-record-of-a-model.md

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id: 587d7fb6367417b2b2512c09
title: Create and Save a Record of a Model
challengeType: 2
forumTopicId: 301536
---

## Description
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In this challenge you will have to create and save a record of a model.
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## Instructions
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Create a document instance using the <code>Person</code> constructor you built before. Pass to the constructor an object having the fields <code>name</code>, <code>age</code>, and <code>favoriteFoods</code>. Their types must conform to the ones in the Person Schema. Then call the method <code>document.save()</code> on the returned document instance. Pass to it a callback using the Node convention. This is a common pattern, all the following CRUD methods take a callback function like this as the last argument.

```js
/* Example */

// ...
person.save(function(err, data) {
  //   ...do your stuff here...
});
```

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## Tests
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```yml
tests:
  - text: Creating and saving a db item should succeed
    testString: 'getUserInput => $.get(getUserInput(''url'') + ''/_api/create-and-save-person'').then(data => { assert.isString(data.name, ''"item.name" should be a String''); assert.isNumber(data.age, ''28'', ''"item.age" should be a Number''); assert.isArray(data.favoriteFoods, ''"item.favoriteFoods" should be an Array''); assert.equal(data.__v, 0, ''The db item should be not previously edited''); }, xhr => { throw new Error(xhr.responseText); })'
```

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## Challenge Seed
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## Solution
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```js
/**
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  Please check our contributing guidelines to learn more.
*/
```

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