Hey there,



I'm trying to create a custom endpoint that runs a series of mongo queries. I seem to have the pattern right, but for some reason I cannot pull (find()) objects out of my collection with a query. Here's what I've got:



function onRequest(request, response, modules){



// fetch all of our kickstart-tpls

modules.collectionAccess.collection('kickstarts-tpl').find({}, function(err, kickstartTemplates) {



// we need to convert the string to an ObjectId representation??? I've tried it without

// this and it still returns nothing.

var kickstartTemplateId = modules.collectionAccess.objectID(kickstartTemplates[0]._id);

modules.logger.info('kickstart_tpl_id: ' + kickstartTemplateId);



// "kickstart_tpl_id: 53220be7f811291203033885"



modules.collectionAccess.collection('topics-tpl').find({ "kickstart_tpl_id": kickstartTemplateId }, function(err, topicTemplates) {



response.body = topicTemplates; // [ ]

response.complete(200);



});





});





}



The screenshot of my "topics-tpl" collection, which clearly matches that "kickstart_tpl_id":

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/68704/Screenshots/~d~d.png



There must be something wrong with my Mongo query, but I'm just not too familiar yet. Appreciate the help!

The whole objectID component in Mongo can be a bit finicky, depending on how the data was written. For the line where you define kickstartTemplateId, try any of the following:



var kickstartTemplateId = modules.collectionAccess.objectID(kickstartTemplates[0]._id);

var kickstartTemplateId = kickstartTemplates[0]._id.toString();

var kickstartTemplateId = kickstartTemplates[0]._id;

var kickstartTemplateId = modules.collectionAccess.objectID(kickstartTemplates[0]._id.toString());



Let me know if the results change with any of these options.

Jeez, that code got butchered. Here it is in a gist instead:

https://gist.github.com/dmackerman/9546777