Native driver find from Mongoose model not returning Cursor

mongodb, mongoose, node.js

Solution

The native driver methods are all proxied to run on the nextTick so return values from the driver are not returned.

Instead, you can pass a callback and the 2nd arg returned is the cursor.

User.collection.find({}, function (err, cursor) {
  // 
});

Curious why you need to bypass mongoose?

Problem

I'm trying to execute a native MongoDB `find` query via the `collection` property of a Mongoose `Model`. I'm not supplying a callback so I expect the find to return a `Cursor` object, but it returns `undefined` instead. According to the Mongoose docs, the driver being used is accessible via `YourModel.collection` and if I switch to purely using the native driver code `find` does return a `Cursor` so I can't figure out what's going on. Here's a code snippet that reproduces the problem: ``` var db = mongoose.connect('localhost', 'test'); var userSchema = new Schema({ username: String, emailAddress: String }); var User = mongoose.model('user', userSchema); var cursor = User.collection.find({}); // cursor will be set to undefined ``` I've tried to step into the code with node-inspector, but it's not letting me. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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