No publish for collection users

[knathanieltucker]

When I wrote queries to the user collection (find the profile of all users), the kitchen did not create a publish function for them (I guess because you don't need to publish the current user, so it assumes no user publish necessary). I just added the publish myself afterward.

[perak]

Hi @knathanieltucker

Meteor kitchen treats Users collection specially. Publications are defined in perak:user-roles package, and there is only 3 publications:

• current_user_data: no arguments, any user can subscribe and receives only own "profile" and "roles" fields.
• admin_user: with argument user's _id - only admin can subscribe and receives data from user with given _id
• admin_users: no arguments, only admin can subscribe, and receives data from all users.

To use these publications, you need to name your query exactly current_user_data, admin_user or admin_users. You can see all of this in example-admin application supplied with meteor-kitchen.

To became (first) admin, you need to add string "admin" into user document's roles array:

Users.update({ _id: USER_ID }, { $set: { roles: ["admin"] }});

However, I know having only three publications for users is limitation, and maybe I'll enable generator to produce any publication for User collection.

Until then, there is workaround: you can create user_publications.js file (or name it as you wish) in directory where is your .json input file (or in any subdirectory) and add it into copy_files array like this:

"copy_files": [
  { "source": "PATH_RELATIVE_TO_INPUT_JSON/user_publications.js", "dest": "SERVER_PUBLISH_DIR/user_publications.js" }
]

SERVER_PUBLISH_DIR is special alias that generator recognizes and will copy your file into destination directory to /server/publish/ subdirectory.

Now, you can publish anything from this file.

BTW, be careful with security - it's not good idea to expose all user's data to all users.

I hope this helps :)

[knathanieltucker]

Ah that clarifies it. I was checking out the example-admin page and wondering how you were able to add the admin_user and the admin_users queries without manually adding in the publication.

Thanks a ton, this really clarifies it. Allowing the generator to do User publications would be nice. But certainly not P0 or P1. I'll go ahead and put the copy_files attribute to my app. Maybe a word on this in the docs would help though.

Otherwise, awesome stuff. The kitchen is awesome!

(Currently I am using a publication that will expose the user profile to others, so not a huge security risk : )

[The-Edge-Malaysia]

Hi!

I have tried copy the content in the following to users_collection.js and placed in server_publish_dir as follows but meteor kitchen complained that I did not define the publication when I used the publication q_users in data_view component besides admin

please help as I need to use the users collection to display as contact directory where the users are synced to google g-suite.

thanks

data view components: - name: test type: data_view query_name: q_users query_params: []

content copied

- source_content: >-
    Meteor.publish("q_users", function() {
    	return Users.find({}, {});
    });

    Meteor.publish("q_user", function(userId) {
    	return Users.find({_id:userId}, {});
    });

    Meteor.publish("q_users_null", function() {
    	return Users.find({_id:null}, {});
    });
  dest: SERVER_PUBLISH_DIR/users_collection.js

[The-Edge-Malaysia]

Hi!

It works with defining the query q_users as normal under meteor kitchen

and

copy the source as per above to users_collection.js in server publish folder

thanks

[perak]

Hi @The-Edge-Malaysia

Sorry for too late answer, glad you solved the problem :+1: