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id: 587d7fb8367417b2b2512c0e
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title: 'Perform Classic Updates by Running Find, Edit, then Save'
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challengeType: 2
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---
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## Description
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<section id='description'>
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In the good old days this was what you needed to do if you wanted to edit a document and be able to use it somehow e.g. sending it back in a server response. Mongoose has a dedicated updating method : Model.update(). It is binded to the low-level mongo driver. It can bulk edit many documents matching certain criteria, but it doesn’t send back the updated document, only a ‘status’ message. Furthermore it makes model validations difficult, because it just directly calls the mongo driver.
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Find a person by _id ( use any of the above methods ) with the parameter personId as search key. Add “hamburger” to the list of her favoriteFoods (you can use Array.push()). Then - inside the find callback - save() the updated Person.
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[*] Hint: This may be tricky if in your Schema you declared favoriteFoods as an Array, without specifying the type (i.e. [String]). In that casefavoriteFoods defaults to Mixed type, and you have to manually mark it as edited using document.markModified('edited-field'). (http://mongoosejs.com/docs/schematypes.html - #Mixed )
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</section>
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## Instructions
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<section id='instructions'>
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</section>
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## Tests
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<section id='tests'>
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```yml
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- text: Find-edit-update an item should succeed
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testString: 'getUserInput => $.post(getUserInput(''url'') + ''/_api/find-edit-save'', {name:''Poldo'', age: 40, favoriteFoods:[''spaghetti'']}).then(data => { assert.equal(data.name, ''Poldo'', ''item.name is not what expected''); assert.equal(data.age, 40, ''item.age is not what expected''); assert.deepEqual(data.favoriteFoods, [''spaghetti'', ''hamburger''], ''item.favoriteFoods is not what expected''); assert.equal(data.__v, 1, ''The item should be previously edited''); }, xhr => { throw new Error(xhr.responseText); })'
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```
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</section>
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## Challenge Seed
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<section id='challengeSeed'>
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</section>
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## Solution
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<section id='solution'>
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```js
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// solution required
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```
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</section>
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