I found the following script:
Device.find(function(err, devices) {
devices.forEach(function(device) {
device.cid = '';
device.save();
});
});
MongoDB has the "multi" flag for an update over multiple documents but I wasn't able to get this working with mongoose. Is this not yet supported or am I doing something wrong?!
Device.update({}, {cid: ''}, false, true, function (err) {
//...
});
Currently I believe that update()
in Mongoose has some problems, see:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/mongoose-orm/G8i9S7E8Erg
and https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mongoose-orm/K5pSHT4hJ_A/discussion.
However, check the docs for update: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html (its under Model). The definition is:
Model.update = function (query, doc, options, callback) { ... }
You need to pass the options inside an object, so your code would be:
Model.update = function ({}, {cid: ''}, {multi: true}, function(err) { ... });
I believe that Mongoose wraps your cid in a $set, so this is not the same as running that same update in the mongo shell. If you ran that in the shell then all documents would be replaced by one with a single cid: ''
.
You have to use the multi: true option
Device.update({},{cid: ''},{multi: true});
Those answers are deprecated. This is the actual solution:
Device.updateMany({}, { cid: '' });