Override document on update

Question

Override document on update

I am doing a findOneAndUpdate in mongoose:

  Item.findOneAndUpdate({_id: 12345}, updateDoc, function(err, updatedItem) {
      ....
  });

However I want to completely overwrite the document. According to mongoose docs:

All top level keys which are not atomic operation names are treated as set operations:

Is there anyway that I can override that behavior such that mongoose does not issue a $set operation for top level elements and instead overwrite the document?

node.js
mongoose

Answer 1

An "overwrite" option has recently been added. It replaces the entire document, the way Mongo updates by default. It's used like this:

Item.findOneAndUpdate({_id: 12345}, updateDoc, {overwrite: true}, function(err, updatedItem) {
....
});

I found some history on this feature in thier GitHub Issues area.