createuser validation error on method with aldeed collection2 - validation

Question

Folks,
I need help. I've been at this for sometime now and cant seem to figure it out. It should be simple. I'm using the aldeed collection2 and I cant seem to get past validation error being thrown by the create user account method. My schema is pretty standard, attached to meteor.users collection:
Schema={}
//SimpleSchema.debug = true;
Schema.UserProfile = new SimpleSchema({
picture: {
type: String,
optional: true
},
updatedAt: {
type: Date,
autoValue: function() {
if (this.isUpdate) {
return new Date();
}
},
denyInsert: true,
optional: true
},
roles: {
type: String,
optional: true
}
});
Schema.User = new SimpleSchema({
_id: {
type: String,
regEx: SimpleSchema.RegEx.Id,
optional: true,
denyUpdate: true
},
emails: {
type: [Object],
optional: true
},
"emails.$.address": {
type: String,
regEx: SimpleSchema.RegEx.Email,
label: ""
},
"emails.$.verified": {
type: Boolean,
optional: true
},
createdAt: {
optional: true,
type: Date,
autoValue: function() {
if (this.isInsert) {
return new Date;
} else if (this.isUpsert) {
return {$setOnInsert: new Date};
} else {
this.unset();
}
}
},
profile: {
type: Schema.UserProfile,
optional: true
},
services: {
type: Object,
optional: true,
blackbox: true
},
// Option 2: [String] type
// If you are sure you will never need to use role groups, then
// you can specify [String] as the type
roles: {
type: [String],
optional: true,
autoValue: function() {
if (this.isInsert) {
return ['user'];
} else if (this.isUpsert) {
return {$setOnInsert: ['user']};
} else {
this.unset();
}
}
},
password: {
type: String,
label: "Password",
min: 6
}
});
/* Attach schema to Meteor.users collection */
Meteor.users.attachSchema(Schema.User);
The method on my server for creating the user is like below:
Accounts.config({
forbidClientAccountCreation : true
});
//creates user on server
Meteor.methods({
createNewUserAccount: function(userdata) {
var userId;
check(userdata, Schema.User);
//console.log(userdata);
userId = Accounts.createUser({
email: userdata.emails[0].address,
password: userdata.password,
profile: userdata.profile
});
//console.log(userId);
return userId;
}
});
Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, userdata) {
//user.profile = {};
// we wait for Meteor to create the user before sending an email
//need to address the exception when existing email is tried for signing up
Meteor.setTimeout(function () {
Accounts.sendVerificationEmail(userdata._id);
}, 2 * 1000);
return userdata;
});
for my client, I have the following signup.js
Template.signup.events({
'submit form': function(e){
// Prevent form from submitting.
e.preventDefault();
//console.log(doc);
user = {
'email.$.address': $('[name="emails.0.address"]').val(),
password: $('[name="password"]').val()
};
Meteor.call('createNewUserAccount', user, function(error) {
if (error) {
return alert(error.reason);
} else {
Router.go('/');
}
});
}
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? The schema does not validate the email address.I get the error:
email.0.address is not allowed by the schema

Answer 1

You're creating an object:
user = {
'email.$.address': $('[name="emails.0.address"]').val(),
password: $('[name="password"]').val()
};
The key is the literal string 'email.$.address'
So when you do:
userId = Accounts.createUser({
email: userdata.emails[0].address,
password: userdata.password,
profile: userdata.profile
});
The email key can't find userdata.emails[0] because there is no emails key. Instead, the key is 'email.$.address'. Also, the schema does not have a key called email.$.address. It has one called emails.$.address
Try:
Template.signup.events({
'submit form': function(e){
// Prevent form from submitting.
e.preventDefault();
//console.log(doc);
user = {
'emails.$.address': $('[name="emails.0.address"]').val(),
password: $('[name="password"]').val()
};
Meteor.call('createNewUserAccount', user, function(error) {
if (error) {
return alert(error.reason);
} else {
Router.go('/');
}
});
}
Then
//creates user on server
Meteor.methods({
createNewUserAccount: function(userdata) {
var userId;
check(userdata, Schema.User);
//console.log(userdata);
userId = Accounts.createUser({
email: userdata['emails.$.address'],
password: userdata.password,
profile: userdata.profile
});
//console.log(userId);
return userId;
}
});