Mongoose remove from attached documents
I have the following two schematics and models:
var Customer = new Schema({
name: String,
jobs: [{ type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Job' }]
});
var Job = new Schema({
title: String,
customer: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Customer' }
});
var CustomerModel = mongoose.model('Customer', Customer);
var JobModel = mongoose.model('Job', Job);
work documents have a link to the client document via _id, and the client document also contains an array of all _id jobs.
When I delete a job, I need to remove the corresponding _id from the Customer.jobs array.
Here is the route I have: the job is being removed, but I cannot remove it from the array
app.delete('/api/jobs/:jobId', function(req, res){
return JobModel.findById(req.params.jobId, function(err, job){
return job.remove(function(err){
if(!err){
CustomerModel.update({_id: job.customer._id}, {$pull : {'customer.jobs' : job.customer._id}}, function(err, numberAffected){
console.log(numberAffected);
if(!err){
return console.log('removed job id');
} else {
return console.log(err);
}
});
console.log('Job removed');
return res.send('');
} else{
console.log(err);
}
});
});
});
numberAffected is always 0 and "remote job id" always fires
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