It's my understanding that Mongoose Schema's are defined at some point in the initiating stages of a Node app. These will obviously be hard coded, like so:
var SomeSchema = new Schema({
some_string:String,
some_number:Number
});
If I'm creating a CMS whereby the administrator (via a pretty web GUI) could add their own models, with their own pre-defined types (sometimes custom types like e-mail) the app would need to create these Schema's on the fly. Sometimes adding to existing Schemas (presumably using Mongoose's add()
method, and sometimes creating new Schemas all-together.
I've done some initial searching but it seems not many people have this requirement. Is this functionality, therefore, a gross misunderstanding of what Mongoose was built for? Was Mongoose built as a closed ODM without any real ability to leverage runtime Schema creation?
Additionally, if I was to go ahead and force this type of functionality, would the prospect of dynamic Schema creation be a potential bottleneck for the speed of my application?
To better summarise my question so as not to attract accusations of debate:
1) Is there a way to create Mongoose Schema's on the fly?
2) Is this programmatically expensive, and is there a better way of achieving my goals of delegating Model creation to a GUI within the administration panel of my CMS?